Judge’s ruling puts politics over medicine endangers women, but he “meant well” so it’s okay?

The Collins Report ^ | April 9, 2009 | Kevin “Coach” Collins

[jmaroneps37]

This is a stunning example of nanny state government.

A federal judge has ordered the FDA to make the controversial Plan B “morning-after” pill available to 17-year-olds without a prescription.

The judge’s “good intentions” aside, according Wendy Wright of the Concerned Women for America (CWA) “… by making it so easy to get, young women are encouraged to rely on it as a regular form of birth control. This ruling puts politics above women’s health, and intrudes into parents’ ability to protect their minor daughters. The FDA has never allowed a high dose of a drug to be available without a prescription for any age if a low dose of the same drug requires medical oversight.”

Federal Judge Edward Korman’s ruling turns professional medical practice on its head. He trampled on the prescription system used by doctors for centuries to protect patients from misuse of potent drugs.

Medical science has always viewed birth control drugs as too powerful for the average woman to use without medical supervision. There is good reason for these controls: if taken in large doses, birth control drugs can be extremely harmful and even cause permanent long term damage to some women.

This ruling allows women at their own discretion to use a drug powerful enough to demand a prescription and a doctor’s supervision to take in lower doses. It is a triumphant of emotion driven political correctness over rational medical practice.

When federal judges start deciding matters of medical practice they are essentially ruling every aspect of our lives.

The extreme hubris and arrogance of this judicial overreach is chilling.

Korman had to brush away mounds of evidence proving the dangers of allowing self medication by fragile and stressed out individuals. His “good intentions” and politically correct motives have no place in legal rulings.

[jmaroneps37]

This is an incremental move toward judicial control of of health care system and it's not good.

[muawiyah]

Just another move by another federal judge to "kill someone".

Don't expect real concerns for health and safety out of people like this.

[Missouri gal]

This judicial activism is a flagrant abuse of power. What is seldom noticed about all these moves to reduce barriers to abortifacients and abortion is that they help sexual abusers force girls to submit to their exploitation. Why else would the likes of Eliot Spitzer, the Clintons and their kind be so enthusiastic about it? “Choice” means WE CHOOSE to exploit!

[Vaduz]

The judge’s “good intentions”,I guess law is ruled by FEELINGS.