Morning after pill now available in Mexico

A surprising decision to make the morning after pill standard stock in all clinics and health offices across Mexico has just put the country on the shit list of the Catholic church. Mexico Health Minister Julio Frenko and President Vincente Fox approved the sale and access of the pill after the national health department approved the drug 20 months ago. The new guidelines allow all women of reproductive age, including adolescents, to receive the emergency-contraception pill. "The move actually regulates use and makes it safer, says Mexico Health Minister Julio Frenk, by giving women access to it from professionals who can tell them how to administer it." Anti-choice psychos are calling this new health measure an outrage and protesting that the pregnancy prevention methods be halted. What eludes them is how the restriction of the morning after pill increases unwanted pregnancy, which often leads to abortion--still illegal in Mexico. Frenk, who has a forward-thinking reputation internationally, pointed out that decreasing the need for abortion will improve rather than compromise women's health, since women will be able to avoid unsafe procedures. Ahh, a little logic for the unschooled. Perhaps the U.S. will feel the pressure to approve the sale of these life-saving pills in this country, rather than promote unwanted pregnancy, which increases poverty, need for abortion, reproduces the welfare paradigm, . . . .