{"id":187144,"date":"2013-06-05T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/06\/05\/appeals-court-slaps-down-obama-on-contraception-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2013-06-05T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T01:16:00","slug":"appeals-court-slaps-down-obama-on-contraception-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/06\/05\/appeals-court-slaps-down-obama-on-contraception-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Slaps Down Obama on Contraception Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/appeals-court-orders-over-counter-sale-of-emergency\">sided with the lower court<\/a>, and ordered the Obama administration to make emergency contraception (AKA Plan B) over the counter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Obama administration has in part lost its push to sustain age limits on over-the-counter sale of Plan B One-Step, commonly known as the morning-after pill.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">After a lower court recently slapped down all age limits, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday granted the Justice Department&#8217;s request for a stay on one-pill variants of emergency contraceptives but denied it for two-pill variants, declaring that the appellants have &#8220;failed to meet the requisite standard.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a <b>very<\/b> well deserved smackdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration&#8217;s behavior in this mater has been craven, dishonest, and hypocritical.  They have taken what should be a core value, and used it as a political football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They sided with the lower court, and ordered the Obama administration to make emergency contraception (AKA Plan B) over the counter: The Obama administration has in part lost its push to sustain age limits on over-the-counter sale of Plan B One-Step, commonly known as the morning-after pill.After a lower court recently slapped down all age &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,1051,972,1150,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-hypocrisy","category-justice","category-public-health","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}