When Students Can’t Get Emergency
Contraception From Vending Machines,
Sometimes There’s No Plan B
Mother Jones,
by
Jessica Washington
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
11/19/2019 6:47:52 AM
In the spring of 2017, Emma Donnelly, a junior at the University of Southern Maine, read an article that inspired her to take action. Students at the University of California, Davis, had organized to get a vending machine on their campus that sold emergency contraceptives for half of what they cost at a typical drug store. To Donnelly, this seemed like a simple solution to a persistent problem on college campuses: how to get convenient, discreet, and affordable access to a potentially life-altering product. What she didn’t know was that bringing one of these machines to her school would take two years, a surprise
Well, there is another option, Honey! Don’t be that type of girl...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
hershey 11/19/2019 7:56:06 AM (No. 239038)
The alternative is just to keep your legs crossed...free love, counterculture, laying in the grass smoking grass, screw ing anything with pants...that will get you into trouble...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hisself 11/19/2019 7:56:28 AM (No. 239040)
A penny will do! Just put it between your knees and don't let it fall!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
pixelero 11/19/2019 7:57:59 AM (No. 239044)
Another pearl-clutching, hysterical article from a “reporter,” who thinks keeping your pants on isn’t even an option. “Emergency contraception,” indeed. Laughable.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 11/19/2019 8:14:22 AM (No. 239064)
I always wanted to marry a woman who had been with at least 100 other guys! But...sigh...I married my High School Sweetheart and we have been together for 43 years. And she is the nicest person I have ever met in my life! Have fun young lady but you will be single wondering where all the good dudes are in your late 30's. (I keep telling my wife she's lucky...there aren't that many good men left out there).
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LadyHen 11/19/2019 8:35:38 AM (No. 239090)
Having been a female my whole life (you have to say that nowadays...) I have never understood the great wailing and gnashing of teeth over contraception availability. I married my high school beau (just passed 20 years!) but I did go to college and we all knew what we knew. While it was a different time and promiscuity was still frowned upon by many, most of us girls (and all the boys) knew contraceptive um.. devices.. were handed out like candy by student health. There was NO reason not to be prepared. But I guess if you are getting drunk and having drunken sex with multiple unknown men every single weekend maybe carrying a dozen prophylactics in your pocketbook isn't top priority.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
hisself 11/19/2019 8:44:25 AM (No. 239106)
I'm not seeing much sympathy here!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 11/19/2019 8:52:16 AM (No. 239114)
She must have gotten a text from some guy and started to get prepared. Emergency was the word that make me LOL. Text must have said ''Sperm count high and rising.'' Pregnancy seems the only thing they could avoid. A prophylactic will not save you from an STD.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1 11/19/2019 9:12:32 AM (No. 239139)
#3, your suggestion tells me that you have never watched 'adult' movies/videos.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cshoff 11/19/2019 9:18:08 AM (No. 239149)
Buy one for you purse prior to each date. The motto of all good girl-scouts. BE PREPARED. Why depend on government to take care of you kitty.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BarryNo 11/19/2019 9:18:27 AM (No. 239150)
Emergency contraception.
Try keeping it zipped and you won't need any! Be a friend, first. Worry about sex once you and your friend decide to share a lifetime together.
Liberalism is the faith of the damned. They work hard to keep everyone dumbed down and feeling like victims.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
anniebc 11/19/2019 9:34:50 AM (No. 239165)
Don't kill your baby is always an option. South Carolina has a slogan on road signs for road construction workers that reads, "Let 'em work, let 'em live." Girls, let those babies live!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
AltaD 11/19/2019 9:36:43 AM (No. 239168)
Are we to believe there are no drug stores in that town? Pay for your own contraceptives or go to the local Planned Parenthood for your post-pills. And on a related note, why aren't these students using condoms? Hasn't their generation been taught since grammar school the importance of safe sex?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bpl40 11/19/2019 10:05:43 AM (No. 239198)
Sounds old fashioned, quaint even Polly Annaish. But there is chastity.
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So we are to believe that these young adults are competent to select a major, incur debt, acquire a driver's license and car insurance, brush their teeth without being reminded....but can't handle the chore of keeping contraceptives on hand? Back in my day most guys had an indentation in their billfold from being constantly hopeful and prepared.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
plaids 11/19/2019 10:16:43 AM (No. 239213)
Don't climb up a trellis to your girlfriend's bedroom and get linked into her family's internet connection.
Actually, that will prevent hanky panky.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
kono 11/19/2019 10:54:49 AM (No. 239249)
To avoid killing the mood, emergency contraceptives should be available on demand, without having to run across campus to the Plan B vending machine. In fact, students should have emergency contraceptives supplied free of charge and delivered daily to their rooms, for the kind of spontaneous lovin' that Emma wants to facilitate at USM. (Miss Donnelly's mission is either disingenuous or not well-thought-out, as its line of reasoning leads to absurdity if we take it seriously)
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
curious1 11/19/2019 11:03:38 AM (No. 239254)
#11 for post of the day!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mc squared 11/19/2019 11:25:43 AM (No. 239273)
What in hell is emergency contraception?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
zoidberg 11/19/2019 11:58:51 AM (No. 239306)
Plan B? For a lot of them, that's Plan A!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Smart11344 11/19/2019 12:57:24 PM (No. 239371)
Try self control. You can finger it out.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 11/19/2019 1:17:53 PM (No. 239407)
Whine, whine, whine.
Can't afford it because they partied away their money?
Embarrassing? The jokes about young guys having to buy condoms are legion.
Not local? If you have a prescription, they will mail stuff to you.
Grow up and be responsible. Think ahead. Use birth control. Stop being a mindless victim.
All the sex ed they get and the kids are too stupid to figure this out? And these are the ones that are in college!
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Uhhhhh……. what about self-control? What a concept, self-control! It seems to be just about extinct in our vulgar, anything-goes, keep-up-with-the-Kardashians society.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MeiDei 11/19/2019 1:31:27 PM (No. 239431)
Plan B is the morning after pill that you take when you don't use the pill or a condom - this Plan B kills whatever is - or if - in the making. Emergency contraceptive indeed, just another 'let's call it by a nicer name' trick. All the above posters are right - girls should behave like the ladies they could be.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 11/19/2019 5:47:01 PM (No. 239641)
"Emergency"???-
LOL! When you are 18 or 20 it may SEEM like an emergency, but it is not.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 11/19/2019 9:48:01 PM (No. 239809)
Not a whole lot of biology being taught these days I see.
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There is always abstinence, but I guess that’s just too onerous.