The Bush administration has, via the Food and Drug Administration, quietly cut the financing of the Women's Health Office within the FDA by about 30%. Last year's budget had asked for 4 million USD, which was granted. However the FDA has decided to withhold 1.2 million USD of that which effectively means that the department will more or less shut down for the rest of the year. Could this be payback for the office's position, counter to that of the administration as a whole, in the Plan B contraceptive controversy? One wonders.
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