FDA Increases Access to Morning After Pill for Teenagers



Orig.src.Susanne.Posel.Daily.News- plan.b_occupycorporatism Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | The US Independent
March 3, 2014

 

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have made it even easier for teenagers to get a hold of the morning after pill (MAP); the genetic version of the Plan B One-Step (PBOS) sold over the counter without age restrictions.

The manufacturer, Teva Pharmaceuticals (TP) has been given until 2017 to benefit direct sales before the generic version of their product is introduced to the public.

Last May, the FDA approved PBOS, the morning after pill, to be purchased by 14 year olds without prescription.

This announcement is in concert with US Judge Edward Korman who ruled that the morning after pill would be legally available to teenagers without parental consent and that the FDA had 30 days to comply with this order.

In addition, the The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) publically stated that they support the approval of abortion pills for teenagers in a newly adopted policy entitled “ Emergency Contraception ”.

While on the one hand, the AAP “encourages abstinence” combined with “comprehensive sexuality education”, they want to help “prevent unintended pregnancy”.

Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), explained that this move “may reduce delays for some young women but it does nothing to address the significant barriers that far too many women of all ages will still find if they arrive at the drugstore without identification.”

The CRR is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that claims to adhere and fight for the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ; a document adopted by the UN and those nations that agreed that redefines “fundamental freedoms” and “human rights” to reflect the needs of the international community and not the sovereignty of the individual.

Northup invoked the emotional response of mothers when discussing emergency contraception and allowing for the expansion of “access to a safe and reliable means of preventing unintended pregnancy for women of all ages.”

In late 2013, the UN Population Fund (UNPF), under the State of World Population 2013 (SWP), released a report claiming that 95% of teenagers giving birth annually in the developing nations have access to birth control.

Their concern is that young women who are educated should enter the work force instead of becoming housewives.

With an estimated 2 million girls age 14 and younger having children each year, and the highest incident of under-aged pregnancy in the US, there is a global crisis waiting to happen.

The SWP report states that 70,000 girls aged 10 to 19 die from complications caused by childbirth.

Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the UNPF commented that “a girl who is pregnant at 14 is a girl whose rights have been violated and whose future is derailed.”

Children deprive developing nations of opportunities to have both men and women in the workforce which lowers national assets, manufacturing and affects the economy of respective countries.

The UNPF explains: “Adolescent pregnancy is most often not the result of a deliberate choice, but rather the absence of choices, and of circumstances beyond a girl’s control. It is a consequence of little or no access to school, employment, quality information and health care.”

Osotimehin commented : “The problems arising with teen pregnancy need to be addressed with a more holistic approach, rather than targeting girls’ behavior. Very young girls are especially vulnerable to exploitation, child marriage and sexual coercion and violence . . . the tendency in many parts of the world is to blame the girl for becoming pregnant.”

Osotimehin said that “adolescent pregnancy remains a daunting problem. Whether it’s going up or down is not the issue. The 7.3 million births to underage girls [is] huge.”

The UNPF asserts that the solution to this “huge global problem” is to shift social ideology of acceptable relational behavior as well as parenting education be made available to teenage mothers.

Osotimehin maintains: “We must reflect on and urge changes to the policies and norms of families and governments that often leave a girl with no other choice but a pathway to early pregnancy.”


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