Posted on 12/01/2018 9:19:39 PM PST by Olog-hai
Students seeking the “morning-after pill” will no longer need to travel further than Silliman College to purchase emergency contraception.
A new 24/7 “wellness to-go” vending machine will soon sell emergency contraception, as well as other over-the-counter medications, condoms and lube. The machine will be installed in Silliman’s Good Life Center before winter break.
“The point of this is to make Plan B more accessible and to make medications in general more accessible,” said Ileana Valdez ’21, a Yale College Council representative who spearheaded the installation effort. “Hopefully this will set a precedent for more machines to show up around campus that contain other things so Yale students don’t have to go out of their way to go to CVS, especially students from the new colleges.”
Emergency contraception helps to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex or birth control failure. Grace Cheung ’21, who first proposed the idea of a Plan B vending machine last fall, emphasized that unprotected sex frequently occurs on campus and purchasing emergency contraception can be an inconvenient and “humiliating process.” Cheung also noted that documents on the Yale Health website present unclear information about emergency contraception. …
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I can see a novel now : “The vending machine murders” will be a hit in the millennial snowflake set !
purchasing emergency contraception can be an inconvenient and “humiliating process.”
can’t have that now!! :)
I had a vending machine route when i was younger.
Soda, candy machines and video games
Boy was my route boring!!
I like how abortion drugs are literally the only thing people need to the point where we’re all but funding walking into people’s house and shoving it down their throats.
So when did you get HPV Miss Cheung...you know, the one which Gardisil DOESN’T protect you against?
And they can have an Instant Lawyer booth right next to it. It can fit right in with the totally automated fast food vending machines that now replaced the only jobs their useless degrees used to get them.
Plan B requires a doctors prescription.
I dont see exactly how this is legal.
“Plan B requires a doctors prescription.”
No it does not.
Plan B became OTC back in 2013.
Obummer got Plan B to be available over the counter. So ...
They may be eligible for jobs restocking the vending machines....unless the robots get there first.
They may be eligible for jobs restocking the vending machines....unless the robots get there first.
What good are these “prestigious” universities if all they can do is promote rampant sex, gay, trans, and hate Whitey?
VENDING machine? You mean its not free?
Someone notify Sandra Fluke ASAP.
Can’t wait for the lawsuits for making these young women infertile and for causing cancer. Here girls, take this high dose rat poison. You don’t want to be punished for having a little fun, do you?
There should be penicillin and AIDS drugs vending machines since they refuse to keep their pants on or use condoms.
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