20 years ago, big pharma came up with RU 486. It was a cheap, effective, morning after contraceptive pill. The wingers, church ladies, thumb screwers and other minions of the reactionary right criticized it from the very beginning. It's action is abortifactant in nature. Never mind that it is only used within the first few days of conception. RU 486 went on to be an effective and much used drug, all over the World, for a generation. It is still used today. It was never widely available in this country because of the opposition of the whack job right, who presumably would never even have any use for it.
The drug companies spent a whole lot more money and came up with a morning after pill that isn't and abortifactant. They call it Plan B. There was nothing the Bush administration could do to stop it from being made available. They were able to stop it from being distributed to girls under 18 years of age. The Bush administration is history. That decision is being reversed.
Cry me a river.
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