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Emergency contraception for teens, Plan B

The American Academy of Pediatrics, trying to skirt a federal ban on non-prescription sale of emergency contraceptives to girls under 17, says physicians should write scripts in advance. This is good public health.

By Michael Yudell

This is good public health.

Why? Because it depends on science, mixed with compassion and understanding, to address two persistent and interrelated public health challenges: how to empower young women to prevent unwanted pregnancies and how to lower abortion rates that remain way too high in the United States.

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