Plan B... is Bad News

WASHINGTON (AP) - Women may buy the morning-after pill without a prescription - but only with proof they're 18 or older, federal health officials ruled Thursday, capping a contentious three-year effort to ease access to the emergency contraceptive.
Girls 17 and younger still will need a doctor's note to buy the pills, called Plan B, the Food and Drug Administration told manufacturer Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Uh huh... Every High School and Middle School girl in America will have access to as many of these pills as they want.

My understanding is that this pill prevents the fertilized egg from implanting itself in the womb.
It sounds as if it works as a kind of "chemical" IUD (Intrauterine Device), a birth control method that may have aborted more babies than all the "abortion mills" combined.

But opponent Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said Plan B's wider availability could give women a false sense of security, since it isn't as effective as regular birth control. Wright also worries that adult men who have sex with minor girls could force the pills upon them.
"Statutory rape is a very serious problem. This decision is going to allow statutory rapists to rely on this drug to cover up their abuse," Wright said.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060824/D8JMREMO0.html

I believe the more proximal negative effect will be an escalation of sexually transmitted diseases. Using a condom is like kissing through a screen door, and it doesn't take young people long to figure that out. The psychological effect of holding this new "protection" in her hand, will give sexually active females the misguided confidence to abandon the less pleasurable, though pathogenically safer, method of birth control.