In Our Control (59 page)

  
53.
Clark-Flory, “The End of Menstruation.”

  
54.
William Saletan, “Bloodless Revolution: The Abolition of Menstruation,”
Slate.com
, May 26, 2007,
http://www.slate.com/id/2166983/
.

Chapter Seven: Like Candy

    
1.
L. L. Wynn and James Trussell, “The Social Life of Emergency Contraception in the United States: Disciplining Pharmaceutical Use, Disciplining Sexuality, and Constructing Zygotic Bodies,”
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
20, no. 3 (September 2006): 297.

    
2.
Susan Wood, “Women’s Health and the FDA,”
New England Journal of Medicine
353, no. 16 (October 20, 2005): 1650–51.

    
3.
The two morning-after pills would eventually be purchased by the same drugmaker, Barr Pharmaceuticals, and Preven taken off the market.

    
4.
Albert Yuzpe et al., “Post Coital Contraception—A Pilot Study,”
Journal of Reproductive Medicine
13, no. 2 (August 1974): 53–58.

    
5.
W David Hanger’s ex-wife has since accused him, in a notorious
Nation
article, of raping and sodomizing her during their marriage. So perhaps his dark fantasies about sexual offenders stockpiling Plan B for nefarious purposes began at home (Ayelish McGarvey, “Dr. Hager’s Family Values,”
Nation
, May 30, 2005).

    
6.
Wynn and Trussell, “Social Life of Emergency Contraception,” 303.

    
7.
Richard Cohen, “The Doctor Who Didn’t Know When to Quit,”
Washington Post
, July 17, 2007, A19.

    
8.
Susan Wood, speech delivered to Law Students for Reproductive Justice (American University School of Law, Washington, DC, February 8, 2009).

    
9.
Wynn and Trussell, “Social Life of Emergency Contraception,” 304; Government Accountability Office, “Decision Process to Deny Initial Application for Over-the-Counter Marketing of the Emergency Contraceptive Drug Plan B Was Unusual,” Washington, DC, November 2005, report no. GAO-06–109,
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06109.pdf
.

  
10.
Marc Kaufman, “FDA Commissioner Steps Down after Rocky Two-Month Tenure,”
Washington Post
, September 24, 2005, A7.

  
11.
Wood, speech delivered to Law Students for Reproductive Justice.

  
12.
Quoted in Kaufman, “FDA Commissioner Steps Down,” A7.

  
13.
Wood, “Women’s Health and the FDA,” 1650–51.

  
14.
Susan Okie, “A To-Do List for the New FDA Commissioner,”
New England Journal of Medicine
360, no. 14 (April 2, 2009): 1373–78.

  
15.
Quoted in Lyndsey Layton, “FDA Commissioner Faces Formidable To-Do List,”
Washington Post
, June 17, 2009.

  
16.
Wynn and Trussell, “Social Life of Emergency Contraception,” 315 n. 3.

  
17.
Rebekah E. Gee, “Plan B, Reproductive Rights, and Physician Activism,”
New England Journal of Medicine
355, no. 1 (July 6, 2006): 4.

  
18.
Ibid., 5.

  
19.
Ibid., 4.

  
20.
David Crary, “Sales Soar for Morning-After Pill,”
Washington Post
, August 22, 2007.

  
21.
Wynn and Trussell, “Social Life of Emergency Contraception,” 306.

  
22.
Elisa S. Wells, Mitchell D. Creinin, and Pablo Rodriguez, “From American Idol to Plan B: A Call for a Shift in Priorities,”
Contraception
76, no. 5 (November 2007): 337–38.

  
23.
Cynthia C. Harper et al., “Over-the-Counter Access to Emergency Contraception for Teens,”
Contraception
77, no. 4 (April 2008): 230–33.

  
24.
See
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/pregnancy/how-pregnancy-happens-4252.htm
.

  
25.
Quoted in David G. Savage, “ ‘Conscience’ Medical Rule to Take Effect: The Last-Minute Bush Administration Declaration Lets Any Health Worker Refuse to Provide Care,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 19, 2008, A18.

  
26.
Robert Pear, “Protests Over a Bush Rule to Protect Health Providers,”
New York Times
, November 18, 2008, A14.

  
27.
Ibid.

  
28.
Savage, “ ‘Conscience’ Medical Rule,” A18.

  
29.
Quoted in Robert Pear, “Abortion Proposal Sets Condition on Aid,”
New York Times
, July 15, 2008, A17.

  
30.
Farr A. Curlin et al., “Religion, Conscience, and Controversial Clinical Practices,”
New England Journal of Medicine
356, no. 6 (February 8, 2007): 593–600.

  
31.
Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York City, letter to the editor,
New York Times
, March 16, 2009.

  
32.
R. Alta Charo, “The Celestial Fire of Conscience—Refusing to Deliver Medical Care,”
New England Journal of Medicine
352, no. 24 (June 16, 2005): 2471–73.

  
33.
Rob Stein, “ ‘Pro-Life’ Drugstores Market Beliefs: No Contraceptives for Chantilly Shop,”
Washington Post
, June 16, 2008, A01.

  
34.
S. Rovi and N. Shimoni, “Prophylaxis Provided to Sexual Assault Victims Seen at US Emergency Departments,”
Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association57
, no. 4 (Fall 2002): 204–7.

  
35.
Valerie Ulene, “Rape’s Treatment Gap,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 6, 2008, F5.

  
36.
Jennifer Medina, “Connecticut Legislators Approve Contraceptive Pill for Rape Victims,”
New York Times
, May 3, 2007, B4.

  
37.
Quoted in Angela Couloumbis, “Bill: Hospitals Must Offer Plan B in Rapes,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, October 3, 2007, B01.

  
38.
Quoted in ibid.

  
39.
Dorothy Roberts,
Killing the Black Body
(New York: Penguin, 1997), 23.

  
40.
Noam N. Levey, “Bush-Era ‘Conscience’ Rule Gets Another Look; Policy That Lets Health Workers Deny Abortion Care May Be Revoked,”
Los Angeles Times
, February 27, 2009, A10.

  
41.
Ibid.

  
42.
Ellen Goodman, “The Endless Game of Family Planning Ping-Pong,”
Boston Globe
, January 30, 2009, A17.

  
43.
Ibid.

  
44.
Quoted in Marie McCullough, “Judge Rebukes FDA on Plan B Contraceptive,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, March 24, 2009, A03.

  
45.
Elisa S. Wells, Mitchell D. Creinin, and Pablo Rodriguez, “From American Idol to Plan B: A Call for a Shift in Priorities,”
Contraception
76, no. 5 (November 2007): 337–38.

  
46.
http://www.planbonestep.com/plan-b-prescribers/what-plan-b-is.aspx
.

  
47.
John Knowles, “Emergency Contraception,” Birth Control Series, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, February 2008.

  
48.
Bhaswati Ghosh et al., “Ectopic Pregnancy Following Levonorgestrel Emergency Contraception: A Case Report,”
Contraception
79, no. 2 (February 2009): 155–57.

  
49.
Rebecca H. Allen and Alisa B. Goldberg, “Emergency Contraception: A Clinical Review,”
Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
50, no. 4 (December 2007): 927–36.

  
50.
Quoted in Bridget M. Kuehn, “Group Backs Emergency Contraception,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
295, no. 23 (June 21, 2006): 2708–9.

  
51.
Ibid.

  
52.
Anita L. Nelson and Cindy M. Jaime, “Accuracy of Information Given by Los Angeles County Pharmacies about Emergency Contraceptives to Sham Patient in Need,”
Contraception
79, no. 3 (March 2009): 206–10.

  
53.
Good news for a city where a 2008 Health Department report found that 40 percent of those with multiple partners failed to use a condom during last intercourse and more than one third of women between the ages of eighteen and forty-four neglected to use contraception during their most recent sexual encounter (Kathleen Lucadamo, “Poll: New Yorkers Not Having Safe Sex,”
Daily News
, June 25, 2008, 8).

  
54.
Quoted in Jordan Lite, “94% of City Drugstores Have Plan B,”
Daily News
, May 21, 2007, 19.

  
55.
Mindelle Jacobs, “Hassle Not over for Plan B Girls,” Opinion,
Toronto Sun
, June 24, 2008, 20.

  
56.
Rebekah E. Gee et al., “Behind-the-Counter Status and Availability of Emergency Contraception,”
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
199, no. 5 (November 2008): 478.e1.

  
57.
Tina R. Raine et al., “Direct Access to Emergency Contraception Through Pharmacies and Effect on Unintended Pregnancy and STIs,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
293, no. 1 (January 5, 2005): 54.

  
58.
Iris F. Litt, “Placing Emergency Contraception in the Hands of Women,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
293, no. 1 (January 5, 2005): 98–99.

  
59.
James Trussell et al., “Emergency Contraceptive Pills: A Simple Proposal to Reduce Unintended Pregnancies,”
Family Planning Perspectives
24, no. 6 (November-December 1992): 269–73.