Nursing a nagging headache and a sore throat, Gemma Pickwell queued at the pharmacy counter of her local Boots store on a chilly Saturday morning, her arms laden with cold remedies.
She felt her cheeks flush as she then sheepishly muttered to the pharmacist that she also needed the morning-after pill.
But Gemma's blushes were not simply prompted by the embarrassment of having to ask for such an emergency measure, or the fact that the night before she'd had drunken, unprotected sex with her boyfriend, but also because, shockingly, it was her 60th request for the drug in less than five years.
The women who use the morning after pill as everyday contraception
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If she has got it through her doctors then he is irresponsible in writing the prescription.
The other thing is I am not sure but I think in both cases you would have to pay full rate for the pill whereas the normal contraceptive pill is actually prescribed at no cost it is the only drug I am aware that you do not have to pay our normal NHS standard charge for which is around 13.00 - 14.00 dollars per item for a 28 day supply.