Rebecca Dresser | Plan B: Politics and Values at the FDA

Rebecca Dresser | Plan B: Politics and Values at the FDA, Again
Dresser discusses the curious case of Plan B emergency contraception and the FDA, when the drug was denied over-the-counter status even though sufficient data had been presented in its support. She compares this to other cases in which political pressure likely held sway and concludes that, while it is impossible to expect value-based judgments from interfering with science policy decisions, we should at least expect these values to be disclosed.
-Although the FDA denied the influence of ___________, skeptics accused them of election-year politics with respect to their Plan B decision.

A) global health organizations
B) political pressure
C) the surgeon general
D) the National Institute of Health