Plan B: Context and Facts

Mike Magee This week the Obama administration gave the green light to unrestricted availability and sales of the morning-after contraceptive pill, Plan B. In the recent past U.S. District Judge Edward R. Korman had called the administration’s age restrictions “politically motivated” and “scientifically unjustified”. Without signaling a change in their opinion, the administration declined to […]

Plan B, The Pope, and Other Controversies Re-Visited

Mike Magee This week the Pope announced he will resign. Surprise. And President Obama’s carefully crafted solution to require funding by health insurance plans (including those sponsored by Catholic institutions) of birth control pills was met with the Catholic Bishops’ cold shoulder.(1) No surprise there. In spite of the fact that 98% of Catholic women […]

Is Mitt Romney (Like George W. Bush) Going To Throw Science Under The Bus?

Mike Magee MD Last year, American women took advantage of emergency contraception in the United States over 12 million times.(1) That’s a steep increase over prior years. What it means is that these women decided to use contraception, albeit after sexual intercourse, rather than conceive an unwanted child. It also means that some of these […]