Yesterday the Center for Reproductive Rights posted a cute bunny video encouraging the FDA to make the morning-after pill available over the counter to minor girls….

Currently pharmacies must check photo IDs, because the law states no one under 17 may purchase the MAP without a prescription, although pro-abort Amanda Marcotte wrote, “There is no scientific reason for this, because EC is quite safe.”
Well, that’s remarkable news, Amanda. Please share your source, because the pharmacology label of Plan B states…

Pediatric Use
Safety and efficacy of progestin-only pills have been established in women of reproductive age for long-term contraception. Safety and efficacy are expected to be the same for postpubertal adolescents under the age of 16 and for users 16 years and older.

“Expected to be” because there have been no long-term studies conducted on the safety or harm of emergency contraception on developing girls’ bodies.
There are other health and safety concerns, such as those NARAL cited a decade ago in a statement now removed from its website, although I kept a copy:

The need for emergency contraception can bring women, and young women in particular, into family planning centers, where they can receive other health care services and counseling. For those who remain sexually active, emergency contraception provides a bridge to ongoing contraception and disease prevention.

Then there’s the issue of child sex abuse, which over-the-counter distribution of MAPs would enable, since young girls could purchase MAPs as easily as candy. Planned Parenthood’s research arm, the Guttmacher Institute, reported:
The younger women are when they first have intercourse the more likely they are to have had unwanted or nonvoluntary first sex, 7 in 10 of those who had sex before age 13, for example.
PP reported, in statements all now removed from its website but which I submitted to the FDA in 2003 when I testified against widespread distribution of the MAP:

Teenage girls with older partners are more likely to become pregnant than those with partners closer in age….
Teenagers who have been raped or abused also experience higher rates of pregnancy – in a sample of 500 teen mothers, two-thirds had histories of sexual and physical abuse, primarily by adult men averaging age 27….
Among women younger than 18, the pregnancy rate among those with a partner who is six or more years older is 3.7 times as high as the rate among those whose partner is no more than two years older.

Then there’s the issue of maturity, for example, according to the National Guideline Clearinghouse:

Teens may not be able to give sufficiently adequate menstrual histories to exclude a preexisting pregnancy, and some teens already pregnant may try to use emergency contraception as an abortifacient.

“Abortifacient.” Well, contrary to NGC’s claim, Plan B’s label states:

Plan B® is believed to act as an emergency contraceptive principally by preventing ovulation or fertilization (by altering tubal transport of sperm and/or ova). In addition, it may inhibit implantation (by altering the endometrium). It is not effective once the process of implantation has begun.

Implantation of what? A 5- to 7- day-old human being, not a bunny.
One final point. Multiple worldwide studies have concluded easy access to the MAP does not lower the pregnancy rate, the latest coming out last week…
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The only people gaining from wider distribution of the MAP are the people making money from it, certainly not the women and girls ingesting this mega-dose of female steroids.

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