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U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine was in Roanoke today and sat down with the editorial board for a wide-ranging discussion on the economy, health care and education policy. We asked him about the Obama administration’s decision to maintain a policy requiring women younger than 17 to have a prescription to obtain the Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive. Our editorial today criticized the president for ignoring advice from his own scientific advisers,who concluded that the morning-after pill could be used safely by younger teenagers. Kaine, a long-time friend of Obama, said he hasn’t read the rationale behind the administration’s decision. “I do not have an opinion that they were wrong,” he said.