I'm a doctor, and I know that NO drug is without side effects, some deadly.
Here they've randomly chosen 15 years old as the cut off for making an "informed" decision.
But I'd never sell a 15 year old 10 boxes of Nyquil.Or even a bottle of cooking sherry.
Even though I guess it's "legal" for them to buy.
And those under fifteen who can get pregnant are not allowed to get the pill. Case a couple of weeks ago where the mother, 14, killed her baby and the husband, 15, no where around. Child was in care of grandmother. The pill can be arguable in both directions, pro/con.
I think that the ridiculous assumption here is that 15-year old girls are rational adults, and will follow directions, etc. These are potentially dangerous and powerful drugs. If they did something else - actually, ANYTHING else...I guarantee that they would require a prescription. Basically, “plan B” is an slight overdose of certain hormones, and women have been doing plan B for years by taking several higher-dose types of birth control pills the morning after.
http://ec.princeton.edu/questions/dose.html
The kids (yes, kids) who are supposed to be reading directions are the same ones that believe that you can’t get pregnant the first time and that a rubber band works.
Heh, heh - “rational adults”...I suppose that doesn’t include the 42% that don’t know that Obamacare is a law...
One of the purposes of prescriptions is to enable physicians to moonitor medicines for side effects. Without prescriptions, this will not happen.
Ironically, the school cannot even dispense Motrin without the parent’s written permission.
Things like this make me wish God would bring things to an end really quickly.