Plan B, teen orgy drug of choice

The Center for Reproductive Rights is suing to force the FDA to approve over-the-counter access to emergency contraception, Plan B.
As part of the case, Lester Crawford and deputy operations commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock have been ordered to testify in depositions to be taken by CRR lawyers. The lawyers plan to specifically ask about a bizarre 2004 memo:

In the memo released by the FDA, Dr. Curtis Rosebraugh, an agency medical officer, wrote: “As an example, she [Woodcock] stated that we could not anticipate, or prevent extreme promiscuous behaviors such as the medication taking on an ‘urban legend’ status that would lead adolescents to form sex-based cults centered around the use of Plan B.” (Emphasis mine.)

Sex-based cults. Well it’s nice to know that the FDA had such a good reason for all the stalling.

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