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There's got to be a morning after...pill, that is. If you are an acting director of the FDA awaiting Senate confirmation, a radical feminist at NOW or Planned Parenthood, or a statutory rapist who loves to prey on young girls, today is your day.

It is hard to believe that President Bush, a former Texas governor who once ran on a platform as a moral conservative, could utter the following statement:

"I believe that Plan B ought to be -- ought to require a prescription for minors, is what I believe. And I support Andy's decision."

But utter he did. That was the President's response when asked by a reporter how he feels about the ludicrous decision, and how he feels about Plan B emergency contraception in general. Washington changes everything.

If President Bush believes there will be no repercussions with his conservative base, he is mistaken. A prominent pro-life leader issued a press release asking President Bush to withdraw Dr. von Eschenbach's nomination. The Family Research Council is planning a legal challenge to the FDA decision. With mid-term elections so close, the fallout will be against the Republicans if outraged voters in the pro-life base stay home.

With the FDA's approval of this high-voltage cocktail of hormones, any adult over the age of 18 will have free access to Plan B pills over the counter. That includes adult women and adult men. The decision does not differentiate between the sexes. Predatory males will obtain the pills and give them to minors. It's open season on underage girls. This is remarkable considering there is strong evidence that Planned Parenthood (which will now become the "counter of choice," in the words of their press release) protects pedophiles that bring girls to their abortion mills. All the abortion employees have to do is dispense the pills to the predators. The girls don't even need to come to their clinics. It's an easy, simple and safe solution for Planned Parenthood.

The FDA's decision is not a surprise; it's an extension of their previous action legalizing mifepristone (RU-486). Pro-abortion Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) penned a letter in which she applied pressure on the FDA to have mifepristone approved. It worked. Now, radical pro-abortion Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-Wash) flexed their feminist muscles, refusing to allow President Bush's nomination of Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach to go forward unless Plan B was approved.

Whether Plan B simply prevents ovulation, stops implantation or is an actual abortion is not the critical issue. The media spin that pro-lifers are opposed to Plan B because "it causes an abortion" misses the point. To do its job, the hormone levels contained in this drug's mix are high; much higher than standard birth control pills that require a doctor's prescription. There are no empirical studies indicating such levels are safe in young women, especially in adolescents whose bodies and hormones are developing.

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