Kounteya Sinha
TNN
Oct 15, 2011, 03.19AM IST
NEW DELHI: Advertisements, (click title to entry - thank you) promoting morning-after pills, can be aired since the Drug Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) lifted the ban on October 10.
The embargo on advertising all emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) was imposed in January, 2010.
Then, concerns had been raised that the ads were promoting the drugs as regular contraceptives and misrepresenting abortion.
The DTAB's latest guidelines say a committee, which would include the principal of a reputed girl's college, representatives from NGOs and the advertising council, can screen the ads and the scripts before they go on air.
A pharmacist shows a box containing a 'morning-after pill' in a pharmacy on September 27, 2009 in Madrid, Spain. The emergency contraceptive product will be available over the counter, with no age limit at Spanish pharmacies from Monday.
2006-07-31T22:54:32
TNN
Oct 15, 2011, 03.19AM IST
NEW DELHI: Advertisements, (click title to entry - thank you) promoting morning-after pills, can be aired since the Drug Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) lifted the ban on October 10.
The embargo on advertising all emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) was imposed in January, 2010.
Then, concerns had been raised that the ads were promoting the drugs as regular contraceptives and misrepresenting abortion.
The DTAB's latest guidelines say a committee, which would include the principal of a reputed girl's college, representatives from NGOs and the advertising council, can screen the ads and the scripts before they go on air.
( September 26, 2009 - Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images Europe)
FDA weighs wider access to morning-after pill (click here)
Agency accused of ‘delay tactics’ the day before Senate hearing
updated 7/31/2006 6:54:32 PM ET2006-07-31T22:54:32
WASHINGTON — Women over 18 may soon be able to get the morning-after pill without a prescription. In a surprise decision Monday, health officials revived a long-stalled application to allow over-the-counter sales of the emergency contraceptive.
The Food and Drug Administration told Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. that it wanted to meet within a week to discuss how to allow adults to freely buy the contraceptive — known as Plan B — while keeping it prescription-only for people under 18....
The attack against a woman's decision making in regard to their reproductive life is oppression. Plain and simple. The Right Wing political machine has NO legitimate complaints about population growth or safety of women who seek not to give birth and/or become a parent. It is a religious bias at the very least and oppression religious dogma surrounding a much bigger issue, namely control of the population of the USA to conform to government standards based in Extremist Christian dogma.
Seeking to make a fetus a citizen in order to call an abortion murder is an outrage and an imposition of religious dogma that openly and defiantely opposes the separation of church and state in the USA. The laws oppressing women have to be ended.
