August 30, 2010 – 9:00 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
amednews.com
By Christine S. Moyer, amednews staff. Posted Aug. 30, 2010.
When ella is available later this year, physicians will have to decide if prescribing the drug is right for them and their patients.
When the Food and Drug Administration approved Plan B in 1999, some doctors objected on moral grounds to prescribing the emergency contraceptive.
Much of the controversy faded when Plan B went to over-the-counter status in 2006, taking the prescribing decision largely out of doctors’ hands. Today, the drug is available OTC for women 17 and older, but younger patients still need a prescription.
August 17, 2010 – 6:47 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
Called ‘ella,’ drug delays ovulation, but opponents say it’s another abortion pill
Bloomsberg Business Week
Executive Health August 14, 2010, 07:32 EST
FRIDAY, Aug. 13 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the ella (ulipristal acetate) emergency contraceptive pill, which prevents pregnancy if taken within five days of unprotected intercourse or contraceptive failure.
August 13, 2010 – 4:28 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
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First Published Friday, 13 August 2010 11:04 pm – © 2010 Dow Jones
By Jennifer Corbett Dooren
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved an emergency contraceptive pill that can be taken up to five days after unprotected sex.
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
The Early Show
June 17, 2010
(CBS) A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel was slated to meet Thursday to discuss approval of an emergency contraceptive pill, dubbed “Ella,” that’s already sold in 22 European countries.
“Ella” is expected to prove highly controversial here.
It’s designed to prevent pregnancy if taken up to five days after intercourse, two more than “Plan B.”
February 17, 2010 – 8:03 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
NtDaily.com
February 16, 2010 by Managing-Editor
By Alex Cheatham / Staff Writer –
A new type of emergency contraceptive on the European market is more effective than the Levonorgestrel, or Plan B, pills that are available in the U.S. Ulipristal acetate, known as EllaOne, is effective for up to five days after unprotected sex.
January 3, 2010 – 1:36 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
Sweetening the Pill
What one girl found out about the birth control pill that you ought to know
Balancing act
Happy New Year – according to the Back Up Your Birth Control campaign, the night of New Year’s Eve is renowned as a time of contraceptive mistakes, broken condoms and missed pills. Or ‘birth control oops’ as they like to call it. The campaign encouraged young women to send their friends a ‘funny morning after message’ through their web page, reminding them of the availability of the emergency contraceptive pill in case they had indeed had a birth control oops.
December 12, 2009 – 12:48 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
The sale of the abortion pill RU486 has been given final approval in Italy, despite protests from the Vatican and the government in the Catholic country.
BBC News
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Unlike in other European countries, the pill, also known as mifepristone, will be administered solely in hospitals.
The pill was originally approved by the country’s pharmaceuticals agency in late July, but the move prompted a parliamentary inquiry.
Italy was is one of the last European states to make it available.
November 17, 2009 – 9:22 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
By ED VOGEL
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU
November 17, 2009
CARSON CITY — The leader of a Nevada organization that wants to outlaw abortion acknowledged Monday that passage of its Personhood amendment would prohibit women from using pills that induce abortion.
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
revelife
a christian blogging community
May 6, 2009
I believe in life and life at conception, but I don’t see how Plan B has anything to do with abortion. The drug in effect is not killing a baby. It is preventing a sperm from fertilizing an egg. I guess I just may not understand the pro-life argument for raising the age for Plan B purchasers because to me, it prevents a person from getting pregnant who then later will have to decide on whether or not to abort that child. Isn’t it better that we prevent those kinds of abortions before a child is even created?
April 29, 2009 – 12:13 pm
Posted by Leslie Carol Botha
Feminists were on the inside helping shape emergency economic recovery bills and the gigantic stimulus package. Part of their job was to make sure the Obama economists and budget strategists knew where women are today. And aren’t. They made sure the architects of the recovery packages understood where to target the money to reach women, especially low-income women who are disproportionately affected by the recession.
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