3 out of 4 doctors agree: carry 'em like candy

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists at a press conference on Monday announced the launch of a campaign called "Ask Me" that urges women who are sexually active to obtain from their physicians a prescription for emergency contraception, which can prevent pregnancy if taken up to 72 hours after intercourse, so the drug will be available when it is needed, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The organization, which represents nearly 50,000 physicians, "long has urged" members to write EC prescriptions to their sexually active patients and has criticized FDA for delaying its decision to approve an application for nonprescription sales of Barr Laboratories' EC Plan B.

The agency in May 2004 issued a "not approvable" letter in response to Barr's original application to authorize nonprescription sales of Plan B, citing inadequate data on its use among girls under age 16.

Plan B has still not received approval status, as the FDA has been stacked with Bu$h androids, as well as being hijacked by the Ridiculous Reich's fear of promiscuity in women. Those whores.

"It isn't just teenagers with multiple partners who find themselves in this position," Iffath Hoskins, chair of the ob-gyn department at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn said.

She added, "It could be a woman with a five-month-old baby or a woman just before menopause or a woman who's been sexually assaulted. In all of these cases, an unplanned pregnancy can have significant physical and mental consequences."