Yeah. It really make sense that a 13 year old girl couldn’t go to Wal Mart and buy certain OTC cold medicine, but she could walk right in and buy a pill to abort her baby.
What kind world are we living in?!?!?
It won’t be the 13 year old girl buying it, but her adult abuser. This is just enabling the abuse to remain undiscovered.
An utterly insane one. The rationale is that some people might use that OTC cough medicine for getting *high* and we must stop them at all costs.
Did you know the government pushes manufacturers to add ingredients purely to poison people trying to get high? Back in the day, cough syrup was pure DXM, a non-toxic drug that does wonders for coughs. A few people drank more to get high so now all cough syrup contains less DXM but also contains acetaminophen. You can’t get pure cough syrup without going to a doctor. It is a controlled substance so no unlimited refills. When used frequently or mixed with alcohol(found in cough syrup and many meds), acetaminophen destroys the liver.
Also, certain decorative plants and seeds are sprayed with poison for the same reason. I know a girl that is now sterile because she ate morning glory seeds as a teenager for their psychoactive effects. Normally, they are very non-toxic. What she didn’t know is that they started using mercury as a preservative to discourage getting high. That sure showed her!
If someone ten years ago would have predicted, In 2012 you’ll be able to buy the morning-after pill in the supermarket but not a 100-watt incandescent light bulb, we would have called him crazy.