The Meals and Drug Administration introduced Friday that it’s going to overhaul packaging labels for the emergency contraceptive tablet, Plan B, that ladies can take after having intercourse to forestall a being pregnant.
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The Meals and Drug Administration introduced Friday that it’s going to overhaul packaging labels for the emergency contraceptive tablet, Plan B, that ladies can take after having intercourse to forestall a being pregnant.
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
WASHINGTON — The Meals and Drug Administration introduced Friday that it’s going to overhaul packaging labels for the emergency contraceptive tablet, Plan B, that ladies can take after having intercourse to forestall a being pregnant.
The federal company mentioned it can 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 brand new labels are meant to additional distinguish the emergency contraception — often known as the morning after tablet — from abortion drugs, 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 drugs will not be the identical as an abortion, a incontrovertible fact that has lengthy been understood within the medical group.
“Proof 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 a better dose of levonorgestrel. The tablet prevents ovulation.
About 1 / 4 of girls say they’ve used emergency contraception drugs sooner or later, in response to a survey by the Facilities for Illness Management launched final yr.
Nonetheless, concern has swirled that entry to emergency contraception akin to Plan B may be restricted in some states, after the U.S. Supreme Courtroom overturned the constitutional proper to an abortion this summer time. Nevada’s Republican governor-elect mentioned he’d think about banning the tablet throughout a debate this yr. College clinics in Idaho additionally prohibited the drugs beneath a legislation banning public funding for “abortion associated providers” final yr.
The Meals and Drug Administration has permitted Plan B to be used as much as 72 hours, or three days, after unprotected intercourse. Ladies are in a position to get the emergency contraception over-the-counter.
