Logic is misguided on ‘foolproof’ drug plan

Re “FDA Has a Deal for Plan B Pill,” Aug. 1

Wendy Wright, leader of Concerned Women for America, said, “The person who buys the drug is not necessarily the person who will take the drug. What the Food and Drug Administration would have to consider is a foolproof plan to keep proxies from buying the drug and giving it to adolescents.”

Will Wright expand her moral logic of a “foolproof plan” to other items proven to be harmful to adolescents? Beer, wine and hard liquor, sugary soft drinks and food itself -- child obesity, we’re told, is a national crisis.

A “foolproof plan” doesn’t exist in our mortal world. Wright probably knows this and thus erects an impossible barrier to nonprescription status for Plan B. If her “foolproof plan” logic is implemented, absolutely nothing could be sold, with or without a prescription.

MARK DAVIDSON

Santa Ana