After months of delay, the Senate approved Lester Crawford to head the Food and Drug Administration on Monday. The breakthrough came after Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt announced that the agency would make a decision by Sept. 1 on whether to give the emergency contraceptive pill known as "Plan B" over-the-counter status. That announcement prompted two Democratic senators--Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Patty Murray of Washington State--to lift a hold they had placed on the nominee to protest the agency's inaction on the decision.
"It is long past time that the American people had a decision on Plan B and the FDA has finally agreed to give women across the country what we have fought for from the beginning--a yes or no decision," Murray said in a release.

It's about time. The stall over at the FDA is unacceptable and a vote needs to happen. All those conservative republicans should understand - after all, that's what they demanded when they threatened to use the "nuclear option." Let's let science speak for itself. Let's take this issue out of the legislature - get the bill off Pataki's and others desks - and let it become medical fact. The FDA has voiced its opinion that Plan B should be made available over the counter - but has been cornered by politics. I only hope that they don't allow the same administration that pigeon holed them in the first place to back them into a corner again.