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 RU-486 controversy was presented as depending on the lack of evidence concerning safety, it was heavily influenced by

A) scientific data.
B) abortion politics.
C) evidence-based data.
D) theoretical concepts.