In what can only be called an astounding move by an Administration that pledged on inauguration day that medical and health decisions would be based on fact not ideology and for which women are a major constituency, today Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services overruled a much-awaited decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make emergency contraception available over-the-counter to women of all ages.

According to the New York Times, “no health secretary has ever [overruled an FDA decision] before.”