By Alana Seixas

While White Feminists have fought diligently for reproductive rights including coverage of Birth Control devices under Obamacare, Black Women are split between the fight to liberate their sexuality and threats that devices like the pill posed to the Black community in the past. For Black Women, the choice to use Birth Control does not fall into a decision of conservative versus liberal but is instead a complicated political decision based on years of racist control of minority family planning.

by Evan Seymour of Moi Naturale

It may soon be a lot easier for teen girls who want to avoid pregnancy to get their hands on the drug Plan B One-Step. The U.S. Department of Justice announced in a letter late Monday that it was withdrawing its appeal to a district court ruling allowing non age-restricted sales of the emergency contraceptive.

Last week a federal judge ordered that the emergency contraception pill Plan B should be available over-the-counter to young women as young as 15 years old. While reproductive rights advocates and women's health groups praised the decision, but on Wednesday the Department of Justice filed notice that it will challenge the ruling in court.

The Federal Drug Administration (F.D.A.) recommended lowering the age limit on purchase of Plan B One-Step from 17 with valid ID to 15. FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg said in an agency news release, "Research has shown that access to emergency contraceptive products has the potential to further decrease the rate of unintended pregnancies in the United States."