{"id":28263,"date":"2022-12-24T22:43:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T03:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=28263"},"modified":"2022-12-24T22:43:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T03:43:56","slug":"fda-plans-to-change-the-plan-b-label-to-clarify-its-not-an-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/12\/24\/fda-plans-to-change-the-plan-b-label-to-clarify-its-not-an-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA plans to change the Plan B label to clarify it\u2019s not an abortion pill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it will overhaul packaging labels for the emergency contraceptive pill, Plan B, that women can take after having sex to prevent pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Plan-B-626x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28264\" width=\"-250\" height=\"-409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Plan-B-626x1024.jpg 626w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Plan-B-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Plan-B.jpg 661w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The federal agency said it will remove references on the contraception\u2019s packaging that claim, without scientific evidence, that the pill prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new labels are intended to further distinguish the emergency contraception \u2014 also known as the morning-after pill \u2014 from abortion pills, which end a pregnancy after a fertilized egg has implanted in the lining of a woman\u2019s uterus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/drugs\/postmarket-drug-safety-information-patients-and-providers\/plan-b-one-step-15-mg-levonorgestrel-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">memo<\/a>&nbsp;released Friday, the FDA clarified that taking Plan B pills is not the same as an abortion, a fact that has long been understood in the medical community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cEvidence does not support that the drug affects implantation or maintenance of a pregnancy after implantation, therefore it does not terminate a pregnancy,\u201d the FDA said in its statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency added that emergency contraception works similarly to birth control in preventing pregnancy, but contains a higher dose of levonorgestrel. The pill prevents ovulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7004a7.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a quarter of women say they\u2019ve used emergency contraception pills at some point<\/a>, according to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control released last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it will overhaul packaging labels for the emergency contraceptive pill, Plan B, that women can take after having sex to prevent pregnancy.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[4124],"class_list":["post-28263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-fda-plans-to-change-the-plan-b-label-to-clarify-its-not-an-abortion-pill"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28266,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28263\/revisions\/28266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}