A federal judge ruled Friday that the morning-after pill, known by its brand name of Plan B, should be available without a prescription or any age or point-of-sale restrictions within 30 days. The ruling is in opposition to a previous decision by the Obama administration.
Judge Edward R. Korman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled in Tummino v. Hamburg, reversing a prior decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS).
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Edward Korman called Sebelius’s decision “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.”
“The motivation for the secretary’s action was obviously political,” he wrote.
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