What Republicans are doing with morning-after pills, which could dramatically reduce abortions, PISSES ME OFF more than anything they have done since the inception of the Holy Drug Inquisition in 1937, when they outlawed hemp after the radical Republican Taliban failed at alcohol prohibition. They needed a shill and hemp was their victim 70 years ago. In modern times, abortion is their shill bitch.
Today's Washington Post reports that the FDA's "comment" period has ended.
What a load of bullshit that is.
I don't recall a "comment" period for any other drug since I've been alive.
These sick, disgusting Republican fascists WANT abortion so that they can put their earth-raping business cronies up in Washington D.C. It is the most massive shill campaign ever known to mankind.
This pill could stop tens of thousands of abortions a year but these cynical repub bastards don't want to stop abortions: that would negatively influence their shill campaign. What disgusting horrific bastards.
The agency's unusual handling of the Plan B application -- which is now going through its third FDA review -- has angered advocates of the emergency contraceptive. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said yesterday that they have helped collect 10,000 signatures on a petition calling on the FDA to act promptly on the Plan B application.
But social conservatives have applauded the latest review, which allows a different level of public involvement.
The Plan B application was overwhelmingly recommended by an agency advisory panel in December 2003 and was embraced by most of the agency's science staff. But top agency officials ruled against the application. Then-Commissioner Lester M. Crawford announced in August that the agency did not have the authority to approve the application because it contains a provision allowing women older than 18 to buy the contraceptive over the counter while younger girls would need a prescription.
Murray said yesterday that she was "stunned" by the agency's actions on Plan B, which is made by Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc.
"The FDA has the responsibility to make scientific decisions," she said. "For them to ask for public comment is so out of the ordinary that it strikes me as bizarre."