The FDA’s priorities
An FDA advisory panel voted yesterday to recommend a nonprescription form of orlistat--a fat-blocking pill whose side effects include “fecal incontinence, gas and oily discharge.”
Apparently over-the-counter access to a diet pill that makes you shit your pants is preferable to a safe form of contraception.
But, wait! Everyone knows the FDA is super concerned about teens getting their whorey little hands on EC. They’re looking out for the kids!
The Associated Press on the almost-approved diet pill:
Several panel members said they were concerned about the potential for abuse, especially by teens, as well as possible interactions with other drugs...
Ah, whatever. Better unsafe than slutty, right?
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Because it's so much more important to be thin than to have control of your reproductive system.
And we can all just suck it up about those unpleasant side effects, because everyone knows you have to suffer to be beautiful.
Ugh.
Of course it's more important to be thin! With a great big set of fake tits, of course.
I just cancelled my Cosmo subscription. I'm reading FDA advisories from now on.
It's funny how my local media outlets have all ran a story about the diet pill, but I have yet to see anything about the FDA's song & dance with the day-after pill.
Isn't the FDA still trying to decide about the HPV vaccination?
If HPV made a man's testicles rot and fall off, that vaccine would have been on the market years ago.