The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would accept, not appeal, a federal judge’s order that lifts Bush administration restrictions limiting over-the-counter sales of “Plan B” to women 18 and older. U.S. District Judge Edward Korman ruled last month in a lawsuit filed in New York that President George W. Bush’s appointees let politics, not science, drive their decision to restrict over-the-counter access.

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in December that the pharmacists’ case must be heard. The court decided then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who issued a rule in 2005 ordering pharmacies to dispense the so-called ‘morning-after’ pill, had made statements indicating there would be no exceptions.

You cannot enact a law that targets people because of their religious objection,” [ACLJ Senior Counsel Francis J.] Manion said Monday.

HT: Wesley J. Smith at Secondhand Smoke.

According to tomorrow’s  Washington Post (March 24, 2009; p. AO2, subscription required), US District Judge Edward R. Korman is requiring the FDA to revisit its position on Plan B, enacted during the Bush administration, and to make the “emergency contraceptive” available to 17 year old girls within 30 days, and to further explore making the abortifacient available to all girls without a doctor’s prescription.

The Bush-era FDA had denied the abortion-causing drug to girls under 18 without a prescription.

          Which seems logical.

                    To me.

Requiring parental involvement and a doctor’s care before taking a drug known to cause the death of tiny human beings and do possible harm to a young girl’s body just seems logical.

But, then again, I am not a judge issuing orders based on ideology-free science.