Alliance director says limiting teens' access to Plan B "seems almost cruel"

Following Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius’s decision to overrule the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to lift age restrictions on the over-the-counter availability of emergency contraception, The Boston Globe interviewed Alliance Executive Director Patricia Quinn:

It almost seems cruel to limit access to emergency contraception to young people since this is a tool to help them prevent pregnancy,’’ said Patricia Quinn, executive director of the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy. “It’s hard to imagine, as with other decisions regarding adolescent sexual health, that politics wasn’t attached to it.’’

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