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When it comes to the so-called “morning after pill,” there seems to be a concerted effort on the part of political liberals to separate parents from their children, to usurp parental authority, and to insert the government in between parents and children. How else can you explain this new effort by the FDA under president Obama (with a little help from an activist judge). They have made available powerful drugs that have the power to end the life of anewly conceived human being, OVER THE COUNTER TO 15-YEAR-OLD KIDS!

WASHINGTON — The Plan B morning-after pill is moving over-the-counter, a decision announced by the Food and Drug Administration just days before a court-imposed deadline.

Tuesday, the FDA lowered to 15 the age at which girls and women can buy the emergency contraceptive without a prescription — and said it no longer has to be kept behind pharmacy counters.

Instead, the pill can sit on drugstore shelves just like condoms, but that buyers would have to prove their age at the cash register.

Earlier this month, a federal judge had ruled there should be no age restrictions and gave the FDA 30 days to act.

You can’t even buy a beer at age 15 in America, but now you have the ability to make this kind of major health decision without so much as a consultation with a doctor or parent?

Like so many liberal policies, the move to make life-ending drugs available to minors, seems designed to dull parental influence, allowing instead for the social engineers in Washington D.C. to control the moral and social development of the nation’s youth. Obviously, this federal judge and those running the Food and Drug Administration believe they–and not doctors or even parents–know what’s best for teens. It’s arrogant and is a dangerous precedent.

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Nathan Harden is editor of The College Fix and author of SEX & GOD AT YALE: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad

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