Reproductive rights advocates urged a judge yesterday to let teenage girls buy morning-after birth control without a prescription beginning this week, saying to delay enforcement of his ruling while the government appeals would cause "certain, significant and irreparable" harm to women.
The U.S. Justice Department last week requested that it be given time to appeal last month’s ruling by Eastern District Judge Edward Korman (See Profile). It said the judge exceeded his authority when he said women of any age could buy both Plan B and cheaper generic alternatives as easily as they might buy aspirin.
