Students for Life conducted an undercover video probe about sales of Plan B, the morning-after pill, to minors.
The drug is now sold over the counter to anyone regardless of age after the FDA followed through on a federal court order earlier this year. Even a 6-year old-can purchase Plan B if they can pay for it.
Kristan Hawkins, who heads Students for Life, says Plan B One-Step is more powerful than a birth-control pill.
"What a lot of people don't realize is this drug is 10 times more powerful than a normal birth control pill, which requires a doctor's examination and prescription, but this drug doesn't require any of that," Hawkins says.
"You can walk in and buy it multiple times during the month, misuse the drug, and no one would be any the wiser," she adds. "There's no parental involvement."
So Students for Life sent a 15-year-old volunteer into pharmacies to buy Plan B and also buy a common cold drug, Sudafed, to see what would happen.
To view the video, visit: http://youtu.be/6-mDs_CPIKo
"Could she get the cold medicine as well as this drug, which is potentially cancer-causing, potentially life-ending and abortion-inducing?" Hawkins asks. "And what we found was every place she could buy the Plan B but she wasn't allowed to buy the Sudafed."
There are legal restrictions on Sudafed in some states because it is an ingredient in making meth.
Hawkins says what their undercover investigation found didn't border on the absurd. "It is the absurd," she says.
Hawkins is asking people to go to website exposeplanb.com to sign a petition asking pharmacies not to sell Plan B because they don't have to.
Students for Life found that Walmart does not.
Contact: Charlie Butts , OneNewsNow.com
