A senior district judge in New York has ordered the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make a controversial emergency contraceptive pill available to girls under 17 without a doctor's prescription. In 2011, the administration of President Barack Obama overruled FDA plans to provide under-17s with access to the Plan B One-Step contraceptive pill (levonorgestrel) without a prescription. In a 59-page ruling made on 4 April, Judge Edward Korman said that the government's decision was "arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable".
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