Court ruling lifts age limit on morning-after pill
Monday, April 8, 2013 - 11:00
in Mathematics & Economics
A federal judge rules that emergency contraceptives such as Plan B and Next Choice should be available to all, including minors. He calls the government's age restriction 'scientifically unjustified.'President Obama once fretted about the prospect that girls as young as 10 or 11 could walk into a drugstore and buy emergency contraception pills as easily as "bubble gum or batteries."