Nightly News   |  December 08, 2011

Obama supports HHS decision on Plan B

President Obama said Thursday that he supports the Health and Human Services decision to block the over-the-counter sale of the morning-after pill to people younger than 17. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: One of the subjects that came up in President Obama 's news conference today

was the subject of our lead story here last night: the Obama administration's move to block an over-the-counter version of another birth control method, the so-called Plan B pill. The president said he didn't intervene in the decision of his own health and human services secretary but he does agree with him.

President BARACK OBAMA: I will say this: As the father of two daughters, I think it is important for us to make sure that, you know, we apply some common sense to various rules when it comes to over-the-counter medicine.

WILLIAMS: Plan B pill will still be available by prescription. The president was responding to charges that the decision to overrule the FDA and keep it over-the-counter market was political. Up