The Obama administration has decided to comply with Eastern District Judge Edward Korman’s order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions. Eastern District U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch wrote Korman on Monday, saying the government would submit a plan for compliance. If the judge approves it, the Food and Drug Administration will drop its appeal of his April ruling.
According to the letter, the FDA has told the maker of Plan B One-Step pills to submit a new drug application with proposed labeling that would permit it to be sold "without a prescription and without age or point-of-sale prescriptions." The FDA said that once it receives the application, it "intends to approve it promptly." The agency will continue to restrict sales of the less-popular two-pill version.
