Plan C

Conservative groups are now suing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over its decision--after a long controversy--to approve the emergency contraceptive "Plan B" for over-the-counter sales. Their claim? The decision was caught up in "electoral politics." Leaving aside the larger philosophical question about whether federal agencies should be immune from democratic pressure, the charge is hilarious, because as "The American Prospect" reports, it comes from the very same religious organizations who for years successfully pressured the FDA to overrule its own expert panels and block Plan B.