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The Food and Drug Administration introduced Friday that it’ll overhaul packaging labels for the emergency contraceptive tablet, Plan B, that ladies can take after having intercourse to stop a being pregnant.
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The Food and Drug Administration introduced Friday that it’ll overhaul packaging labels for the emergency contraceptive tablet, Plan B, that ladies can take after having intercourse to stop a being pregnant.
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration introduced Friday that it’ll overhaul packaging labels for the emergency contraceptive tablet, Plan B, that ladies can take after having intercourse to stop a being pregnant.
The federal company mentioned it would take away references on the contraception’s packaging that declare, with out scientific proof, that the tablet prevents a fertilized egg from implanting within the womb.
The new labels are meant to additional distinguish the emergency contraception — also referred to as the morning after tablet — from abortion capsules, which finish a being pregnant after a fertilized egg has implanted within the lining of a girl’s uterus.
In a memo launched Friday, the FDA clarified that taking Plan B capsules isn’t the identical as an abortion, a incontrovertible fact that has lengthy been understood within the medical neighborhood.
“Evidence doesn’t assist that the drug impacts implantation or upkeep of a being pregnant after implantation, due to this fact it doesn’t terminate a being pregnant,” the FDA mentioned in its assertion.
The company added that the emergency contraception works equally to contraception in stopping being pregnant, however accommodates the next dose of levonorgestrel. The tablet prevents ovulation.
About 1 / 4 of girls say they’ve used emergency contraception capsules in some unspecified time in the future, in accordance with a survey by the Centers for Disease Control launched final yr.
Still, concern has swirled that entry to emergency contraception reminiscent of Plan B is likely to be restricted in some states, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional proper to an abortion this summer time. Nevada’s Republican governor-elect mentioned he’d contemplate banning the tablet throughout a debate this yr. School clinics in Idaho additionally prohibited the capsules underneath a legislation banning public funding for “abortion associated companies” final yr.
The Food and Drug Administration has accepted Plan B to be used as much as 72 hours, or three days, after unprotected intercourse. Women are in a position to get the emergency contraception over-the-counter.