"Plan B is safer than Tylenol, yet we’re putting barriers to keep young teens from preventing pregnancy?"

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— Susan Wood who, in 2005, resigned her job as the top women’s-health official at the FDA, claiming that the agency’s refusal to allow over-the-counter sale of emergency contraception was the result of political pressure by the Bush administration.  (via iamdrtiller)

Susan is on my list of awesome people.

(via lawsonry)

There we go! 

(via newwavefeminism)

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