The Obama Administration has decided to drop its appeal of the Federal District Court Judges decision striking down an FDA rule that restricted the availibility of Plan B and other morning after pills based on age. As a result, these pills will soon become available to women and girls of all ages:

WASHINGTON The Obama administration has decided to stop trying to block over-the-counter availability of the best-known morning-after contraceptive pill for all women and girls, a move fraught with political repercussions for President Obama.

The governments decision means that any woman or girl will soon be able to walk into a drugstore and buy the pill, Plan B One-Step, without a prescription.

The Justice Department had been fighting to prevent that outcome, but said late Monday afternoon that it would accept its losses in recent court rulings and begin putting into effect a judges order to have the Food and Drug Administration certify the drug for nonprescription use.

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