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  • Title: Emergency contraception: a reasonable personal choice or a destructive societal influence?
    Author: Greene MF.
    Journal: Clin Pharmacol Ther; 2008 Jan; 83(1):17-9. PubMed ID: 18165824.
    Abstract:
    A 2003 petition to the US Food and Drug Administration by the manufacturer to move levonorgestrel emergency contraception from prescription status to over-the-counter sale embroiled the Agency in politics and remains controversial in some circles. This essay addresses the current remaining main points of contoversy about the medication and the Agency's decision.
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