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US to keep morning-after pill restrictions

FDA is overruled on emergency pill; critics cry politics

By Deborah Kotz and Bobby Caina Calvan

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 07, 2011

In an unexpected turn of events, the US Food and Drug Administration announced today that it was not going to permit the emergency contraception pill, Plan B, to be sold over the counter without any age restriction. The agency’s commissioner said it had planned to lift the age restrictions but was overruled by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

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