Why teenagers will never handle the Morning After Pill

The Food and Drug Administration told the pill’s maker, Barr Pharmaceuticals, that before the drug could be sold without a prescription the company must either find a way to prevent young teenagers from getting it from store shelves or prove, in a new study, that young girls can understand how to use it without the help of a doctor. Company executives expressed confidence that they could clear those hurdles, although it was unclear how long that would take. The decision was a surprise because in December, a panel of independent experts assembled by the Food and Drug Administration voted 23 to 4 to recommend that the drug be sold over the counter. The majority concluded that the drug was not only effective but that women could be trusted to use it correctly without a doctor. The Food and Drug Administration normally follows the recommendation of its advisory panels.Please feel free to leave a comment under the posting, or sign my Spiritbook (guestbook) and chat on the tag board at the bottom of the page.

I think eventually this is going to pass and we will see some teen injury and death. I think that because I use to be a teenage girl, albeit in the distant past (the 1970s) but still I have a vague recollection of how I thought then. When I was a teen, for some reason, I was on thyroid medication. All I really knew about it was that it seemed it helped me control my weight although that wasn’t why I was on it (I weighed between 90 and 120 pounds in high school). Yet, I was obsessed with my weight. My teenage diaries will never become popular reading because they are SOO BORING in that they focus on my daily weigh in. I remember it crossing my mind that if 1 thyroid pill was good – 2 or 3 had to be better right? As a dancer in my 20s I hadn’t made much more intellectual progress – if this laxative or diuretic is sold over the counter, it must be safe right? So I’ll just take 4 instead of two and excrete my way to a slimmer me?

I can’t imagine that girls and young women obsessed with not getting pregnant would be much different and I KNOW that the attitude prevails that if you can jsut walk into Walgreens and buy it- it must be OK!!

I wonder when women start having problems with this if it will be yanked as fast as ephedra?