It's not an emergency. An emergency is a situation where one is at serious risk of immediate death or injury if one does no receive immediate care.
The worst case scenario is that you find yourself in need of some pennyroyal tea or other abortifacient.
and i see it reducing abortion, reducing the killing of an embryo or fetus.
So are condoms, regular BC, and really cheap perfumes that make you smell bad so you don't get laid in the first place.
And from the statistics on its useage, it truly is being used for emergency situations by a super majority.
Again, we're not talking about any emergencies here. The only time this would coincide with an emergency would be in case of sexual assault, and everyone here has voiced support for making it available at hospitals, women's centers, etc.
You are wholly unable to present any valid reason for talking over these businesses.
I believe pharmacies should carry ALL EMERGENCY medicines/drugs
That's fine. When they stop carrying emergency drugs such as those FA mentioned earlier, we'll discuss it.
, and if this were an emergency drug for an asthma attack, or stroke or whatever, I would support our pharmacies having to carry such as well.
Stroke, heart attack, or the most serious asthma attacks can lead to death or serious injury without treatment. Irresponsibility with your bf/the guy you met at the bar does not constitute an emergency. It constitutes stupidity.
Pregnancy =/= Death
That you people have to resort to such dishonest tricks and spin highlights the fact that you have no real case. It's not surprising though, I already called this out for what it is in post 487
I realize that in most cities or populated areas there is no need to force a pharmacy to carry the product because there are many places within reach for a person to get the drug, but in rural places, it is not as easy as you and other's claim.
You want everyone to have access to bc? fine. Distribute it through public channels. That's what the Health Department is for. If you really cared about the women and this was truly about access to bc, you wouldn't be trying so hard to turn this into an excuse to take over businesses and find a way to stick it to those mean old Christians who dare to think differently than you.
Pharmacies are licenced businesses that are a critical part of our health care system and a service to the ENTIRE community.
They're not part of 'our health care system' unless they're publicly owned. They might provide some medical supplies or services, but they are private sector. The public sector, which the State may use to make such drugs available are the public hospitals and the Health Department.
I aso find it hypocrital of the pharmacist rejecting this drug while still carrying birth control pills, which is the same drug and does the same thing....
So? I find it hypocritical and retarded that a store sells wine but not beer, even though wine has more alcohol than beer and they try to justify it by saying 'we don't sell beer and liquor'. That doesn't mean the State should make them sell Sam Adams Cherry Wheat just so I don't have to go somewhere else or go to the library and buy it online.
IF the gynos were doing their job, and informing their patients with all birth control options available to them, and not excluding this plan b one step option...
If you've evidence that medical professionals are not doing their job, then make a thread about it and we can address it and rectify the problem if it exists.
.maybe this would not be a problem, and every informed sexually active female including those that are married but do not want more children than the 4 they already have, would have a dose of the plan b one step, in their medicine cabinets for the just in case mishap....and there would be no emergency need to get this from their pharmacy....
I've never even met a gyno. But I've heard the radio, been online, watched TV, and spoken to people outside of a fundamentalist church in the middle of the Midwest. Oh, and I went to school some years back and had sex ed classes.
With very few exceptions, any woman ignorant of bc, including Plan B, is that way purely of her own fault. All she has to do is enter any college, feminists coffeeshoppe, library- or get on Google- and the information is all out there for anyone who wants it.
Let's perform an experiment.
I'm going to google 'I forget to use birth control'
The fourth listing includes the following:
If you think there could be a chance that you are pregnant (and you don't want to be),
Emergency Contraception (Plan B) is always an option. It is available in many pharmacies over the counter without a prescription if you're over 18. Something that I have always found to be effective is to set the alarm on your cell phone or outlook calendar to remind you!
That link?
Has this scenario ever happened to you? The
condom breaks while having sex? It happens all the time, but luckily there is EC (Emergency Contraception) or the "Morning After" pill as a backup -- accidents do happen!
EC, also known as
Plan B, should be taken within 24 hours after intercourse to be most effective, but can be taken up to 3 days after.
It is NOT meant to be your main form of birth control, since it's only 89% effective against preventing pregnancy and does NOT protect you from
STIs like
HIV.
Now let's Google 'Plan B birth control'
(since, you know, we never went to high school, watched tv, listened to the radio, asked a librarian about birth control, or been in a city before now)
First result:
Plan B® One-Step: Home
Well, I'll be.
Let's click 'pharmacy locator'
Let's try Olympia, Washington, since that's where this story appears to be taking place
Holy snap, there are twenty-five locations listed, including a Rite-Aid-- a major company where the store manager can't do like the owner of Ralph's. It also says Safeway has it, and there's a Walgreens. And a Target... Ralph's is still listed; they need to update that. Good thing it lists the address and phone number for each location as well.
Now.... you really expect us to believe that Walgreens, Walmart, Rite-Aid, and Target are all going to suddenly decide Plan B is evil and not something they want to make money off of?
You people are creating a bogey out of nothing and using dishonest scare tactics to get people to go along with yet another power grab by the totalitarian socialists who call themselves 'progressives' today and pretend to care about women whenever it seems like a good way to forward their own agenda and feed their desire for control.
Three pharmacies, according to the article, are fighting this. Three. Plan B's own website lists 25 pharmacy's that they know of they are carrying it (with the exception of Ralph's, bringing the number to 24).
the bottom line for me, is that this must be taken right away for its effectiveness, and I do not want to see more abortions, but fewer abortions.
The bottom line is you have at least 24 other pharmacies to go to. Not to mention going down to
402 Legion Way, Suite 201
Walk-in Services
Pregnancy tests and emergency contraception.
Health Services - Olympia, WA - Planned Parenthood - Olympia Health Center
or clicking
Order Emergency Contraception
You really think Planned Parenthood is going to stop carrying Plan B if the State doesn't force those women-hating monsters to give women the option of not having a baby?
But don't let the facts get in the way. there are more important things than the women here, right? After all, those evil Christians are still living according to their morals and still have the freedom to run their private enterprises and sell only what they wish. They must be stopped!
But you are very correct.
