Democrats Prepare Plan B on Health Care

Well, at least it looks like we're not going down without a fight, the DCCC is planning activities for recess, so get involved.

With health care reform sidetracked for another month, ABC News reports Democratic leaders "are quietly preparing for Plan B."

"Under the scenario now being discussed, bi-partisan talks would be aborted and parliamentary maneuvers used to force the bill through with a party-line vote."

Interesting side note: The "Gang of Six" senators involved in bipartisan health care negotiations represent six states with a total of less than three percent of the U.S. population (Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Maine, New Mexico and Iowa).

FDA to approve 'morning after' birth control pill for 17-year-olds

Oh course, that which makes the most sense will cause the most noise from the wingers.

WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration, reversing field, will allow 17-year-olds get the 'morning-after' birth control pill without a doctor's prescription, a government health official said today.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the agency will comply with a federal judge's order overturning a Bush administration policy that restricted access. The official was not authorized to speak publicly before the FDA announcement, expected later today.

Last month, U.S. District Judge Edward Korman ruled in a New York lawsuit that Bush administration appointees let politics, not science, drive their decision to allow over-the-counter access to the pills only for women 18 and older. Korman ordered the agency to let 17-year-olds get the medication, and separately to evaluate whether all age restrictions should be lifted.