Good. It’s about time. Birth control pills should be in there too (though I encourage all women who don’t want a pregnancy to use something more effective than the pill but still).* I’d prefer these be free but I know there are other places on many campuses where they all can be obtained for free.
*There is NO medical reason why the pill is prescription-only.
I really do hope that they keep the uhm…their used purchase items in their rooms.
I think some screening for birth control pills are warranted although a full physical, pap smear, and pelvic exam are not warranted. I think this is a good compromise:
http://www.pharmacytimes.com/contributor/sally-rafie-pharmd/2017/02/colorado-is-third-state-allowing-pharmacists-to-prescribe-birth-control
@romanigypsyeyes you’re not a fan of Call the Mid Wives are you?
I do think oral contraceptives have come a LONG way from the Call the Midwives timeframe, however, even in recent times there have been issues. Yaz as an example.
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2012/02/09/just-how-safe-is-yaz-women-need-to-know/
Never seen it. No interest. Do work in modern day sexual health though.
There are risks but there are risks with all meds. The pill is sold over the counter in many, many countries without a problem.
It’s just another barrier.
Seriously? DD takes the pill and has had issues and had to have dosages and type adjusted more than once - do you think a vending machince can do this? There are MANY drugs available over the counter over seas that are perscription in the US. Want high schoolers to get Acutaine without a perscreption - it’s just for acne after all… Heck in
some contries optiates are legale.
Here’s an article with some studies on the issue:
http://time.com/4180612/birth-control-prescriptions/
Yaz is a different issue because it used a new type of estrogen and lied about its findings. That’s different from the regular 'ole pill that’s been available and used since my grandmother’s generation.
I will never budge on this. I know the risks. I know the benefits. I have been in the trenches for both and read more studies on different contraception types in different countries than I have ever cared to.
I’m on the side of the vast majority of physicians.
Thank God my daughter’s doctor doesn’t agree with you!
Why would someone buy them from a vending machine when they are free from the pharmacy? All insurance has to cover them and in some states they are also 100% free even if there is no insurance.
I wouldn’t trust that someone who buys them from a vending machine would know that they don’t work instantly, that you have to take pills for a month, at the same time every day, that they interact with other medicines (antibiotics). My daughter likes to be on the schedule where she only gets 2-3 periods a year so was happy to discuss that with a doctor and get her prescription set up that way.
My kids haven’t taken a lot of antibiotics in their lives, but D had strep throat and of course had to do a round. I woke up in a panic when I realized her birth control might be ineffective and texted her. The nurse had warned her because the nurse knew she was on b.c. Now, the nurse could have asked, but didn’t have to because there it was in D’s chart.
@romanigypsyeyes you are likely too young to know about “Thalidomide Babies” you might learn something from the Call the Mid Wives show. It was an over the counter drug in Germany and perscridebd without testing in the UK because it was an OTC drug in Germany. My 7th/8th grade science teacher was adopted from the UK and was a Thalidomine baby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
You admit YAZ is “different” how is a vending machine to know that?
Doctor’s Advice
Published:Saturday | June 24, 2017 | 6:00 AM
Question: I want to go on the Pill, Doc, but my mom is trying to prevent me.
She says I shouldn’t take it because I have something mysterious called Hughes’ Syndrome. I did not realize this. It seems like it runs in the family. What do you think, Doc? Could I take the Pill?
Answer: Well, Hughes’ Syndrome (also known as ‘sticky blood syndrome’ or ‘anti-phospholipid syndrome’) is quite common and it is good that your mother told you about it.
It was first described by Dr Graham Hughes, who noticed a number of cases in Jamaica in 1974. Since then, it’s been found all over the world. It is characterized by recurrent miscarriages and repeated clotting (thrombosis). In fact, the risk of clotting is so great that, alas, a young woman like you should never go on the Pill!
The oral contraceptive is fine for most young women, but not for you. Don’t try it.
I think you should now see a medical expert to have your Hughes’ Syndrome investigated. As far as contraception is concerned, you need to use some other method that will not give you clots. Good luck.
^The patient has Hughes syndrome, a serious autoimmune disorder, and neither her mother nor her doctor bothered to tell her until she was of age to become sexually active?! She is not being given the recommended treatment for APS/Hughes patients who have not yet experienced an acute clot? What kind of medical care is this kid getting?
Is this from a real medical advice column?
The real consideration is the context of the potential dangers of the pill(S) vs the very real dangers of pregnancy. Take your (for e.g). random syndrome exacerbated by the pill and compare it with your random syndrome (or lack thereof) in an unplanned pregnancy with a potential lack of prenatal care. I can buy the morning after pill on the internet. We need this for contraceptives, period. Pregnancy isn’t some abstract notion, it is dangerous work. The scary bit isn’t just getting a healthy baby out at the end, it is the in between and the unhealthy baby and mother, or much worse. A lack of free access to free contraceptives is the American way of punishing women for being sexually active.
Who is going to pay for the “free” contraceptives?
The same people who pay for free public schools and free highways. And if you think we can’t afford it, you’ve been watching too much Fox News 
I’d rather pay for free contraception as a taxpayer than unwanted pregnancies…which do you think is more constly @utex2011
And if viagra can be subsidized by the government so old men can “perform” I think we can insure that young people be able to protect themselves…
Who is going to pay for the “free” contraceptives?<<<<
Fox news indeed. Who is going to pay for the unplanned pregnancy? Society, that is who, including you. Contraceptives are cheap as chips until you starting giving them stripper names.
“Contraceptives are cheap as chips until you starting giving them stripper names.”
Love this!
I’m not sure if you realized, but we are trillions of dollars in debt. Not sure how Fox News got into this discussion. I figured it was common sense that we are trillions of dollars in debt.