For those of you on the women's choice side of the reproductive fence, Monday's ruling by a federal judge to make Plan B available to 17-year-olds without a prescription was a big, bad liberal success.

Plan B—known as the "morning after pill"—is to be taken within 72 hours after unprotected sex in hopes of warding off an unwanted pregnancy. Regardless of the fact scientific evidence proved the pill perfectly safe for 17-year-olds, before yesterday's ruling the drug was only available behind pharmacy counters to women 18 and up.

Judge Edward R. Korman of the federal district court … Read More

2006 was a year of unprotected sex for me. No, not every time, but I started off the year with a fling with a slightly older man I was besotted with, who didn’t speak a word about condoms, and, in response, I didn’t either. I wanted to trust that he had some magical knowledge that somehow I was missing, that maybe the world had overturned itself and they were no longer necessary. I was wrong, and after a pregnancy panic as I searched for Plan B—this was right before it was so readily available—I escaped unscathed. Then later that … Read More