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Morning-After Pill To Be Sold Over The Counter

HeadlineDec 17, 2003

Two advisory panels of the Food and Drug Administration have voted to recommend that the contraceptive known as the morning-after pill be sold over the counter. Planned Parenthood estimates that the pill could prevent as many as half of the three million annual unintended pregnancies in this country.

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