secretary kathleen sebelius overruling her own experts at the food and drug administration. the f.d.a. decided the plan b pill should be available over the counter, but secretary sebelius says she is worried young girls may not understand how to use the emergency contraceptive. girls 16 and under can still get the drug. they need a prescription. those 17 and older just need to prove their age. well, the thousands of deaths in syria are not his fault. that from syrian president bashar assad. who today strongly denied he ordered his troops to slaughter unarmed civilians, despite the fact that he is the commander of that country s armed forces. of course the united nations reports president assad s regime has reported crimes against humanity by killing unarmed protesters calling on assad to step down. the u.n. claims more than 4,000 syrians have died in that 10 month uprising but in an exclusive interview with
we ll welcome in john stossel, two home grown terror suspects accuse of planning to attack a military recruiting stage in seattle. they were inspired by the massacre in fort hood. one of them is ready to cop a plea. that guy is expected to plead guilty to multiple charges in court today. the f.b.i. busted him and another suspect just as they were picking up machine guns to allegedly use in the attack. girls 16 and under will need a prescription called the morning after pill. this after an unprecedented move by health and human services secretary kathleen sabelius. she overruled a ruling by the f.d.a. she s worried young girls won t know how to use the emergency contraceptive safely. police in california releasing a chilling 911 call as a woman shoots and kills a guy trying to break into her house. here s the tape. where is he at?
the food and drug administration has approved a controversial new emergency contraceptive. it is like the morning after pill but can be taken up five days after sex. the pill is called ella. an abortion rights groups are happy about the approval. as you can imagine, anti-abortion activists are not. earlier today we heard from both sides. i m basing on what i think about on the hundreds of pages of documentation submitted to the fda and made public a couple of months ago and our review of those studies show that when given to women who had an unintend accidental exposure to intercourse without protection, this pill reduces the risk of those women getting pregnant when they didn t want to very significantly and for a period of up to five days after intercourse. that s been studied in hundreds of women. actual real women. not just in the tissues and the
but you can add to that now a new five-day after pill, if you will. the fda has approved a new emergency contraceptive that has been available in europe since last year.
today. we continue to follow this story. we ll bring you details as we get them. also nearly 500 sri lankan migrants are in canadian custody, accuse of smuggling. they ve been monitoring them since it left sri lanka three months ago. the ship first stopped in thailand before crossing the pacific and moving to the coast of british colombia. mounties say all of the sri lankan migrants are claiming refugee status. also, you have heard about the morning-after pill for women for some time. now, the five-day-after pill is here. food and drug administration has now approved this new emergency contraceptive. it s called ella. it can be used up to 120 hours, that s five day, after unprotected intercourse to prevent pregnancy. it s expected to hit shelves in the u.s. later this year. available in europe since last year. but, of course, both sides of