UPDATE: On July 15th, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-WA) succeeded in pressuring the Food and Drug Administration
to make a decision on "Plan B", a petition to make the "morning-after" pill available to women over the counter instead of by prescription.
The FDA now has until to September 1st to decide whether to go along with the doctors and scientists who overwhelmingly support giving women
over-the-counter access to the pill or capitulate to pressure from the radical right, which strongly opposes the measure. Consequently, the senators have lifted
their hold on Lester Crawford's nomination to become the new FDA Commissioner.
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