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<p>I seldom get hot under the collar on the air. But a recent decision by the Obama administration has got my dander up.</p>
<p>Last week, the President threw America’s parents and their daughters under a bus. And I’m hopping mad about it—and not just because I have a young daughter of my own.</p>
<p>First, a little history: In 2011, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled the Food and Drug Administration’s request to make the “Plan B One-Step” drug available to all women and girls without a prescription, no matter their age. Plan B is a so-called emergency contraception drug that its maker admits could “inhibit implantation” of a fertilized egg in the womb. Sebelius agreed with the decision to distribute the drug—but insisted girls must be at least fifteen to purchase Plan B One-Step. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=1998" title="Permanent Link: Is the Morning After Pill Coming to a Vending Machine Near You?" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(700 words, estimated 2:48  mins reading time)</i></span></p>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>Is the Morning After Pill Coming to a Vending Machine Near You?</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=1998" title="Permanent Link: Is the Morning After Pill Coming to a Vending Machine Near You?" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (700 words, estimated 2:48  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":1998,"date":"2013-06-19T20:23:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T00:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2013-08-15T18:13:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T22:13:23","slug":"is-the-morning-after-pill-coming-to-a-vending-machine-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1998","title":{"rendered":"Is the Morning After Pill Coming to a Vending Machine Near You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I seldom get hot under the collar on the air. But a recent decision by the Obama administration has got my dander up.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the President threw America\u2019s parents and their daughters under a bus. And I\u2019m hopping mad about it\u2014and not just because I have a young daughter of my own.<\/p>\n<p>First, a little history: In 2011, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s request to make the \u201cPlan B One-Step\u201d drug available to all women and girls without a prescription, no matter their age. Plan B is a so-called emergency contraception drug that its maker admits could \u201cinhibit implantation\u201d of a fertilized egg in the womb. Sebelius agreed with the decision to distribute the drug\u2014but insisted girls must be at least fifteen to purchase Plan B One-Step. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1998\" title=\"Permanent Link: Is the Morning After Pill Coming to a Vending Machine Near You?\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(700 words, estimated 2:48  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>Is the Morning After Pill Coming to a Vending Machine Near You?<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1998\" title=\"Permanent Link: Is the Morning After Pill Coming to a Vending Machine Near You?\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (700 words, estimated 2:48  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is the Morning After Pill Coming to a Vending Machine Near You? - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1998\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is the Morning After Pill Coming to a Vending Machine Near You? - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; I seldom get hot under the collar on the air. 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