Plan B in Brooklyn Ruling
The Obama administration had asked U.S. District Judge Edward Korman to extend a stay expiring Friday for the duration of a planned appeal. Korman did agree as a “courtesy” to give the Justice Department until Monday to ask the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to put his ruling on hold.
The judge called the appeal “frivolous” and said further delay would wrongfully deprive women of easy access to the drug. “Showing proof of age . . . constitutes a substantial impediment to obtaining emergency contraception,” he wrote.
