PA University Now Offering Students the Morning After Pill Through a…Vending Machine
- Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:55pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Forget Snickers, Paydays and potato chips. At Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, students will soon be able to get the so-called morning after pill (Plan B) through campus vending machines.
The pill, available in machines located in the university’s health center, will cost students $25. Plan B is already available over-the-counter for individuals who are aged 17 and older. CBS Philadelphia has more:
University officials say they will not make any money from the sales.
“The machine is really used as much for privacy as anything else,” Dr. Roger Serr, Vice President of Student Affairs said. [...]
Plan B contains hormones which are meant to disrupt ovulation or prevent fertilization from occurring.
The AP explains where the idea originated:
The machine was installed after a request from the student association. The pill’s availability in a vending machine appears to be rare, if not unprecedented.
The idea started when Shippensburg conducted a survey about health center services several years ago, and 85 percent of the respondents supported making Plan B available, he said.
KYW-TV reports:
(H/T: Drudge)
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NOBALONEY
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:03pmJefferson Airplane – “White Rabbit”
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:08pmI guess this is the pill that makes you small…
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:54pmNot sure about that brother Ed. It’s the pill that keeps you from getting larger, that’s for sure. Avoiding unwanted pregnancy is what it’s all about…
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:58pmBy most accounts the egg isn’t fertilized by the next morning. It can take between 12 hours and 5 days for sperm to reach a released egg in the fallopian tube. These pills essentially work like birth control or the natural menstrual cycle in that they use the hormone progestogen. The hormone has two effects, 1) the lining of the uterus prevents implantation of a fertilized egg (if it exists) and 2) it prevents the release of another egg. These pills are not used to essentially cause a woman to miscarry. These pills give a large dose of the hormone that tells the body that it’s already pregnant.
Report Post »theninthplanet
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:07pm“fertilized egg” …
You mean baby. The literal definition of pregnant is “with child.” In the 1960′s, ACOG changed the definition of pregnancy from conception (immediately after sperm penetrates egg) to implantation, so they could market these drugs as contraception instead of abortifacients.
Countless babies have been unknowingly killed due to this change in language.
When you can’t win a debate, change the language.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:10pmNot to mention the spike in synthetic hormones that increase the chances of breast/cervical cancer.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:11pmFIREBRAND Useful information but trust me most of the group here is not interested in information. Particularly any information that can’t be easily filtered out or refuted by their ideological psychosis.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:13pm@theninthplanet Hate to be picky here but there is no baby if fertilization is disrupted.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:38pm@ninth
Report Post »No, I mean fertilized egg. After conception, the fertilized egg (diploid zygote) travels down the fallopian tube to the uterus, where it implants in the uterus wall and afterwards continues to grow into a baby. Millions of women every day have a fertilized egg that for whatever reason, and without the use of birth control, doesn’t implant. That cell does not go on to become a baby, but instead is passed externally and dies. The lack of implantation can be due to many factors including (but not limited to) an issue with the uterus lining, egg coating, or the natural menstrual cycle. The difference between hormonal birth control and the natural menstrual cycle is that with birth control, we control the timing of the cycle. One thing you have to realize though, is that the body passes fertilized eggs all the time. Just because it has been fertilized, does not mean it is on a baby making track. That step is implantation.
kryptonite
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:55pm@FIREBRAND
It can take between 12 hours and 5 days for sperm to reach a released egg in the fallopian tube.
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After ovulation, an egg lives a max of 24 hors, and sperm can survive in the fallopian tube up to five days (if they are very strong), but it doesn’t take them five days to get there, dodo. Some sperm make it in as little as 20-30 min. Are you talking about liberal sperm? LOL.
=> “These pills give a large dose of the hormone that tells the body that it’s already pregnant.”
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Geez, where the heck are you getting your info from? Plan B has the exact opposite effect on the uterus. Instead of thickening the lining of the uterus so implantation will occur, it alters the uterus lining making it thinner so the embryo cannot implant. (CONT.)
kryptonite
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:57pm@FIREBRAND
Report Post »=> “Just because it has been fertilized, does not mean it is on a baby making track. That step is implantation.”
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That’s a lot of liberal BS in two comments. Some embryos don’t implant, usually because they are genetically impaired. That may result in a failed pregnancy, but human life doesn’t start at pregnancy; it starts at conception. If an egg has been fertilized it is now a developing human being. Some babies are miscarried, some are stillborn, some die a month after they are born. They are all human life, regardless of whether that life existed for an hour or 80 yrs. Millions of unborn and born human beings die of natural causes, but nobody has a right to arbitrarily end the life of an unborn human being at any stage of its development.
Firebrand
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 5:45pm@krypto
I’ll take your points one at a time.
1) Fast male (XY) sperm reaching the fallopian in 30 min is a rare exception, not a rule. I never implied that the egg was in the fallopian tube for 5 days, just that the egg has to be “released” to be fertilized.
2) A large dose of progestogens does in fact thicken and increase the number of blood vessels of the uterus. Small biological doses increase the size of the uterus wall as well as the number of blood vessels which in turn become the placenta after implantation. When the level drops off, menstruation occurs. A significantly larger dose (like in the pill) prevents implantation. So should I have said “over-prepared“ for pregnancy instead of ”pregnant”? Probably so, but you could have deduced my meaning pretty easily, or even clarified the point I was trying to make before offering a counter-point.
3) As an experiment. Take 1000 eggs and 100000000 sperm and put them in a petri-dish at 37C. Let them wash on an orbital shaker (belly dancer) for a while in the proper cell line media. I will give you $1 M for every one of those fertilized eggs that turns into a baby (without first being implanted in a uterus). That’s $1B total if they all make it.
4) Don‘t assume I’m not Pro-innocent life.
Report Post »OnMission4Truth
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 6:05pm@Firebrand
You’re wrong.
Here‘s a clip from National Geographic’s “In the Womb” that explains it well – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6RLsRlhe0s
“May take UP TO 10 HOURS before the actual moment of CONCEPTION.”
“Once within the egg wall the sperm’s nucleus is drawn towards the eggs. The two cells gradually and gracefully become one. THIS IS THE MOMENT OF CONCEPTION. WHEN AN INDIVIDUAL’S UNIQUE SET OF DNA IS CREATED, A HUMAN SIGNATURE THAT NEVER EXISTED BEFORE AND WILL NEVER BE REPEATED.”
Sure sounds like a human being to me (a human embryo). And taking an abortifacient, like Plan B, is an intentional act by a human being to block the egg from implanting in the uterus – thus, terminating the pregnancy. Obviously not the same thing as the body naturally getting rid of a fertilized egg. So don’t use that arguement to support your idea that Plan B is just doing what the body may naturally do anyway.
As a side note, simply look at the facts and you will realize that contraception, birth control, IS an abortifacient. It too prevents the human embroyo from implanting in the uterus. Something the makers of birth control don‘t and won’t ever advertise, as well as many doctors.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 6:36pm@onmission
A National Geographic special designed for entertainment is hardly a biological go to reference. Try the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine, or Nature: Sexual Reproduction.
As a counterpoint to your argument. The appearance of a progenitor cancer cell in my body is self-replicating and theoretically can contain a unique set of DNA. Does that make it a human being? No, because it doesn’t have the capability to turn into a human. Without the uterus being in the correct state, this is true for a fertilized egg also. The real argument I think you are trying to make is that we shouldn’t interfere with nature. That’s a different argument all together. I’m saying that a fertilized egg has to come into contact with and be implanted into a uterus in the correct state in order for a baby to occur. Both of those things have to happen. Otherwise, no baby.
Again, don‘t assume I’m not Pro-innocent life. I am, very much so. But I understand that implantation is the first “committed” step to the development of a human being.
Report Post »theninthplanet
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 7:19pmFIREBRAND-No, I mean fertilized egg. After conception, the fertilized egg (diploid zygote) travels down the fallopian tube to the uterus
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You’re still getting your language wrong. At no point is a human being a “fertilized egg”. Call the baby a zygote, or an embryo, or a prenate, or a baby, but “fertilized egg” is not scientifically correct, and you’re just muddying language for something that should be crystal clear.
Plan B (and the pill) isn’t labeled an abortifacient because ACOG changed the definition of “pregnant”. If the embryo has already formed but not attached to the uterine wall, taking Plan B will kill it. If the woman didn’t take Plan B, she’d be on her way to a healthy baby. Abortifacient.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 7:46pm@FIREBRAND
I never implied that the egg was in the fallopian tube for 5 days, just that the egg has to be “released” to be fertilized.
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You said, “for a sperm to REACH a released egg,” which in standard English means the egg has already been released and it takes from 12 hrs. – 5 days for the sperm to swim the distance. You BS-ing me?
=> “Fast, male (XY) sperm reaching the fallopian in 30 min is a rare exception…”
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30 min is tops. Average is 4 hrs. I don’t know where you got the “12 hrs. – 5 days.”
=> “A large dose of progestogens does in fact thicken and increase the number of blood vessels of the uterus. A significantly larger dose (like in the pill) prevents implantation. you could have deduced my meaning pretty easily…”
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That I did, but you are wrong. Levonorgestrel releases a very high dose of synthetic progesterone in females which, it appears, inhibits natural progesterone completely, thereby causing a sudden THINNING/atrophy of the uterus wall that prevents embryo implantation. That’s why many pro-lifers consider it a chemical abortifacient. (CONT.)
kryptonite
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 7:49pm@FIREBRAND (CONT.)
Report Post »=> “I will give you $1 M for every one of those fertilized eggs that turns into a baby (without first being implanted in a uterus).”
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That’s a pro-choice argument. A pro-abortion jerk would take it a step further and offer me a mil if a 20-week old fetus turned into a baby outside the uterus. Is that where you draw the line? What are you, “half pro-life?” Don’t kid yourself. Jesus will spew you out of his mouth together with the rest of the pro-abortion crowd. Just sayin’, dude.
Firebrand
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 8:48pm@kryptonite
The time frame you are referring to is after sperm has entered the cervical boundary. In cases where ********* lands on the cervix and if the cervix is sufficiently relaxed fast enough after the chemical reaction that occurs when semen enters the uterus, then yes you can get fertilization pretty quickly. But again, 30 min is a rarity. Most sperm has to travel to the cervix.
The average sperm travels 2-4 mm per hour. Giving you the benefit of fast sperm getting within half an inch of the cervix (not even in the uterus yet) and not from a pool formed in the ******* canal, it takes 3 hours for the sperm to get into the uterus. Travel is quite a bit faster in the uterus, as the invaders have made it past the “front gate” and the environment is more conducive for travel (as muscle contractions help the little guys along). Now in the case of a short ******* canal, a small and strong uterus, and an egg that has been released at such a time that it is in the lowest possible part of the fillopian tube. Then yes, your numbers could be correct. Rarely are all those things happening at the same time.
C’mon dude, the egg could be released after the sperm is approaching. In effect, they would run into one another even though the egg was released later…you’re being literal.
It’s not an argument, it’s a fact that the zygote (for ninth) is non viable without implantation.
Refer to http://ec.princeton.edu/references/Mechanism_of_action_Contracepti
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 8:58pm@krypt CONT.
sorry, the link got cut off
http://ec.princeton.edu/references/Mechanism_of_action_Contraception2006.pdf
There are citations in the reference section that show that Plan B is an “anti-ovulant” (my word). The author addresses both sides of the argument. Though you can tell he leans left. The writing seems to be pretty fair though.
This is my argument against the liberal argument for non-viability after implantation. 100 years ago, 4 weeks premature was non viable. Now, babies can be born up to 12 weeks premature and still make it. That’s 6 months gestation! In another 100 years, medicine could allow 16-20 weeks. But there is no way for a zygote to survive if it never implants or if there is never an egg available to be fertilized.
On a side note: Jews don’t believe in Jesus as the messiah.
Report Post »ARealistB
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 9:49pmHere is an article from the Mayo Clinic that sperm can live inside a woman’s ****** for 5 days or possibly longer and fertilization is possible as long as the sperm remain alive.
Report Post »http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/pregnancy/AN00281
kryptonite
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:36pm@FIREBRAND
“There are citations in the reference section that show that Plan B is an “anti-ovulant.”
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Sure, if ovulation hasn’t occurred levonorgestrel can’t act as an abortifacient. Pls scroll down and read the link I posted under LOCKED’s comment regarding proof that it has caused resorption of implanted embryos in mice.
=> “In another 100 years, medicine could allow 16-20 weeks.”
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Great argument, except that to the liberal mindset viability cannot be legally established on a hypothetical premise. But you continue to deceive yourself. You ARE for viability… just under YOUR humanly frail definition of viability.
=> “There is no way for a zygote to survive if it never implants…”
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Didn’t you just defeat that argument? Cloning used to be science fiction, and incubators didn’t exist when Ron Paul was born (kidding — kinda)
=> “On a side note: Jews don’t believe in Jesus as the messiah.”
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Touché. YHWH, same thing: You shall not murder. Or are you one of “them apostate Jews?”
kryptonite
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:45pm@ARealistB
Here is an article from the Mayo Clinic that sperm can live inside a woman’s ****** for 5 days
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Not inside the v—-a.
=> “fertilization is possible as long as the sperm remain alive.”
Fertilization is possible as long as the egg and the sperm remain alive.
I’m calling it a night.
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:57pmLet me get this straight:
52% of mature adults in California voted that marriage is between one man & one women – that was struck down by the courts.
85% of college students voted to have a morning after pill available – that’s acceptable.
Interesting. This ‘will of the people’ thing is confusing…
Report Post »MommyNeedsMoreCoffee
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:01pmCome on Brother_Ed, play fair…you know you can’t use logic.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:01pmInteresting that polls are votes now.
Report Post »Marine25
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 9:23pmIt’s likely 70% of Americans opposed desegregation. Thankfully the Constitution protects the liberties of all people, especially when they have a minority opinion.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:56pmSo? I saw condoms in a dorm building vending machine. The same one that holds snack food. It was only a matter of time.
Report Post »USACommoner
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:30pmI‘m offended every time I’m forced to use a public restroom in some states. You can get various kinds of condoms and jellies with just a couple of coins. And this is how the left works…make it seem like they are only making it available to “consenting adults”, but in reality anyone has access.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:44pmHey this takes out the whole responsibility issue which the left will never be responsible.
Report Post »This will no doubt increase the falsehood of safety and promote promiscuity and who really knows what the pills do to the body. What if they discovered after all this time that the birth control pill contributed to breast cancer ?
Can’t wait until the first overdose case to see the fallout.
kryptonite
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:55pmPlan A: Keep your legs closed, girl.
And this is the pill Ron Paul casually RECOMMENDS in his latest book. His pretext? Women are going to do it anyway:
“Very early pregnancies… can be treated with the day after pill, which is nothing more than using birth control pills IN A SPECIAL MANNER. These very early pregnancies could never be policed, regardless.” (emphasis added)
“In a special manner,“ meaning ”to abort the fertilized egg.”
So many sheeple who follow this “pro-life” snake…
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:14pmSo bascially what they are saying is, “If it turns out we can’t offer this to you, take a week’s worth of hormone pills from your blister pack of oral contraceptive.” (special use of birth control) har har har.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:54pmI’m sure Rick Santorum is just loving this coming from a PA university.
Report Post »jonhova
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:54pmHey, i’m running down to the vending machines, anyone want something? Yeah, get me a Coke, a Snicker Bar and an abortion…SMH.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:43pmI actually know a woman, that took one of these “Morning After Pills” . If anyone is considering taking one of these pills ………XXX WARNING XXX…,!!!!!!
YOU better do some research …
And I mean on the negative side affects…!
The events that she experienced, was right out of a horror movie..!
And the mental side of this action ,I don’t know if she will ever get over it. .Someone needs to show “the true reality” of this “PILL” to woman, before they consider going though with this action.
This is something that cant be un-done.
And the physical and mental damage could be permanent.
God forbid anyone buys this “PILL” and uses it as a weapon on a pregnant woman. Our world has gone mad. You cant buy over the counter cold medicine without having the lady behind the counter get it for you … And then you have to show a ID..
Report Post »But you can get this “Kill Pill” out of a vending machine..?
Locked
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:58pmSo… what were her effects? Did she take it within 72 hours like the directions say?
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:04pmAnd we should have this readily available to 17 year olds? Why does this seem like the progs answer to eugenics? If they are dumb enough to take the pill………
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:41pmSo, women can now buy abortion-inducing female HORMONES from a vending machine, but, if a man gets male hormones from a doctor, he is called in front of Congress!?!?!?
How on God’s Earth has our respect for human life sunken SO LOW??
Report Post »REALLY? Vending machine abortions?
DISGUSTING and EVIL.
RightThinking1
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:37pmPrivacy!? Their ‘privacy’ was gone when they engaged in sex.
Report Post »Let’s see, the lefties want to limit sugar and fat intake by *law*. They want to control school lunch choice, but hey!…, aborting a pregnancy and promoting indiscriminate sexual activity? No problem.
We are truly doomed. Oh well…, at least the girls won‘t be ’punished’ by having a baby.
MommyNeedsMoreCoffee
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:59pmThere’s nothing more private than standing in a public space using a vending machine that dispenses an abortion pill, right? (I’m thinking at night, with a spotlight on it.)
Well that’s clearly embarrassing; so obviously what they really need to do is install one of these machines in each dorm room…for privacy’s sake, of course. Heck, forget dorm rooms, how about high school bathrooms? Or maybe middle school?
Oooo, ooo, even better, since the pro-life stance of the Catholic Church is under full assault by this government, how about we make the holy wafer out of these pills–kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.
I’m sorry, do I sound completely freakin’ disgusted?!
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:24pmYes, MOM, but rightly so and you are speaking for the tired-of-being silent majority. As a society, we continue to facilitate the youth to be unaccountable. In today’s prescription drug-infested culture from essentially cradle-to-grave, I can‘t imagine a 17 year old not choosing a pill to alleviate her concerns regardless of it’s effectiveness or possible long-term side affects.
Report Post »muddpuddle
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:28pmGreat point RT. Regulate sugar and carbs, and unlimited easy access to life killing drugs. The same people want gun control…. But no pill control. They don’t like happily married couples, but they want to be one. They have truly exchanged the truth for a lie. They are God-haters, liars, malicious back biters, filled with all sorts of evils.
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:53pmDon’t forget…McCain wants to regulate our vitamins too!!!!!!
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:31pmOne word!! Murderers!!
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:04pmI would add 2 more: fornicators and adulterers
I hope I get to Judgement before these people…looks like there is going to be a bottleneck.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:31pmHow many libs would there be if their mothers had this option ?
Report Post »May Clark
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:30pmSick making! Parents – it is past time to explain to your daughters that they should not be allowing guys to use their bodies for sex. Sex without love and commitment equals enduring pain on multiple levels.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:46pmAmen!
Beyond that, we need children with stronger self-worth!!!
If you value yourself highly, you will not just throw your body around at other people for pleasure.
You will value yourself and preserve yourself as A GIFT to the person with whom you will spend your entire life!!!
How many of us would buy a shiny new car, drive it for 10 years, let people smoke in it, wreck it a few times, puke in the back seat from drinking too much, spill beer and hard liquor all over the upholstery, let pets pee on the upholstery, let people key the paint, ram it into other cars repeatedly, then, when we are tired of playing with it, find someone we LOVE and say to them, “here, I love you SOooOOoo much, I want you to have this.”????
RESPECT YOURSELF
This is what we ALL need to be teaching our children.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:56pmWomen in committed relationships use the morning after pill as well. Condoms can break, a moment of passion can go too far without protection, a girl could be raped… really, easier access to more reproductive services isn’t a bad thing.
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:51pmYou and TOMFERRARI make too much sense! We can’t have that now…
Report Post »The devil is in charge (with the gubments help)…
goahead.makemyday
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:21pmLocked
Report Post »I agree how ever are most of those people in ages 17-25 the average ages in college? Medicine has proven that the human brain does not finish developing until age 25. Until then life views and attitude, and especially in girls self esteem and self worth are set. If a girl gets taught it is ok for her to have several one night stands and hard partying and then have no consequences because a pill is always available if not an abortion is. And it is her place to be a toy for any guy who wants it, and that she will never find a person who she would want to spend her life with. And that life at no matter what stage of development is not something to be cherished. How are we ever going to get out of this mess our nation is in?
Locked
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:38pm“How are we ever going to get out of this mess our nation is in?”
Education. Positive examples. Not by withholding access to emergency contraceptives. You admit people in committed relationships will make use of this. For that reason alone I have no problem with it.
Unplanned pregnancy (and abortion) happened prior to Plan B. Youth and hormones override rational thought. Unlike older generations, these girls have a chance to learn from their mistakes without being forced into motherhood and without the horror of an abortion. I’m A-OK with that. Are you not?
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 9:05pm@Locked
Unplanned pregnancy (and abortion) happened prior to Plan B. Youth and hormones override rational thought. Unlike older generations, these girls have a chance to learn from their mistakes…
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Hmm. You can’t have it both ways. If hormones override rational thought, they’ll do it again and again and again, esp. if they don’t get stuck with a baby, as liberals put it. BTW, libs ridicule abstinence, so don’t bring up education. As for girls who have been raped, they need to go to the hospital, not to a vending machine.
Come on, dude. Stop with the lib talking pts. You’re better than that.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:29pmI predict that that vending machine will have lots of mechanical problems (involving superglue)…
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:23pmThey won’t allow prayer or religious plaques in school but it is ok to teach (via vending machines) to go against parents responsibilities and to risk the spread of diseases. Way to go PA school may someday you face God and give Him the answer to “why”.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:32pm“to go against parents responsibilities and to risk the spread of diseases.”
If a girl needs to use the morning after pill, her parents didn‘t educate her enough or she just doesn’t care. And if she’s taking the morning after pill, diseases already had the chance to spread; at least unwanted pregnancies might be blocked before they happen.
Report Post »Mitchm999
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:36pmAt a college, they will all be adults anyway. They don’t need their mommies.
Report Post »azmomof6
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:04pm@MITCHM999
Report Post »I was not an adult when I went to college. Actually, I have several friends who were 15 or 16 when they first went to college. My friend has a 12-year old son at the community college. This machine will give access to people who are not old enough to get it on their own over-the-counter. Men can also get this pill to give to their under-aged partners. There is no reason to have this type of pill available in a vending machine where anyone can have access to it.
IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:12pmThen I don’t understand why they need insurance to age 26
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:15pm@Mitchm
Report Post »At a college, they will all be adults anyway.
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No, they are still teenagers, and in the most vulnerable stage of their life given the moral breakdown of our society.
Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:19pmAll proceeds should be used to pay down the deficit… Not one penny to “Planned Parenthood” who completely fails the “PLANNED” part..
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:17pmOne wonders what the “side effects” of these pills are.
Love the “privacy” feature of vending machine mentioned in the article. Libs are truly insane. I wouldn’t put it past them to be taking video or getting the fingerprints off of every person who touches the machine.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:16pmAs it’s only 80% effective, even when taken in the first 72 hours as recommended, most sexually active girls will not be using this as their only line of protection.
Report Post »goahead.makemyday
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:33pmBut they will be taking it and most likely regularly along with birth control. The body has a built in limiter for hormones, taking so much artificial hormones(which already work against your body) with out doctor over sight is a set up for things to go horribly wrong. Look at steroids, it’s a hormone naturally produced by the body. Taking too much of it can even kill you (look up the man who exploded). Besides the body will try to fight against the hormones and cause itself damage. Especially with these hormones the damage will most likely turn out to be permanent infertility or cancer involving Uterus, Fallopian Tubes and/or Ovaries. There is a reason why these things are behind the counter, so people can be warned by the Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technicians about the dangers before use. Maybe 20-30 years ago people would think before taking these, but as colleges are now they won’t read the box then make a choice they will regret for the rest of their lives.
Report Post »Rachel
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:15pmMy mother was right: this country *is* going to hell in a hand basket!
Report Post »Locked
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:06pmAlready do it for condoms, so I guess it makes sense. Going to be interesting to see if someone sues after taking a bunch of them and having side effects.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:43pmCondoms keep you or your partner (fairly) protected against some major STDs and from getting a woman pregnant. How are they similar to an abortion pill?
Report Post »Locked
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:00pmCondoms stop pregnancy, as does the morning after pill. Plan B cannot abort an implanted egg (hence why it’s most effective when taken within 72 hours).
Report Post »goahead.makemyday
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:36pmIt can’t abort an implanted egg but once she misses her cycle to a degree she notices she will go out and get an abortion. She tried to stop the consequences once what will stop her from trying again once it is implanted?
Report Post »Locked
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:41pmCost? Societal pressure? Religious conviction? Her boyfriend? Her parents? Lack of available facilities?
Pick a feature. It’s 80% effective; women know it might not work. If Plan B didn’t exist, they’d have moved on to their “Plan C” anyway – maternity or abortion. At least Plan B gives them a good chance to avoid those incredibly difficult choices.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 6:03pm@LOCKED
Plan B cannot abort an implanted egg
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So they say, but it can without question abort an embryo that is trying to implant itself in the uterine wall. It is chemical abortion at the earliest stage of embryonic development. Scr*w the liberal lies.
Resorption of implanted embryos HAS in fact occurred in mice before day 3 of the postcoital period. Show me the study that proves it does not have the same effect on a human embryo. Waiting…
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Posted on February 7, 2012 at 6:18pmKryptonite,
I guess that’s the difference between our views then. Uterine walls can reject a fertilized egg for all sorts of reasons. A fertilized egg cannot become a fetus or a baby by itself; left without successful implantation, it will just be expelled (as happens with a high frequency anyway). Preventing implantation, in my mind, is still stopping conception; thus, contraception.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 8:47pm@LOCKED
I guess that’s the difference between our views then. Uterine walls can reject a fertilized egg for all sorts of reasons.
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You are using the same fallacious argument as FIREBRAND. First, it is not the uterine wall that rejects the embryo; it’s the embryo that fails to implant. That is NOT equivalent to a woman introducing a chemical substance in her body that PREVENTS the embryo from implanting itself in the uterus wall. A lot of babies suffer SDS, but is that the same as someone choking them to death? Are you pro-abortion? Is it OK to abort a “nonviable fetus” because it is not a “baby,” since it cannot survive outside the womb?
=> “A fertilized egg cannot become a fetus or a baby by itself…”
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Good news: A fertilized egg is no longer by itself. It has found a life-long companion in the sperm.
=> “Preventing implantation, in my mind, is still stopping conception”
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That’s because you have been brainwashed by rabid, feminizing liberal propaganda, that disparagingly downplays — no, NULLIFIES the crucial role of sperm, boys and men in society. We’ve devolved into the mythical Amazon society, with the caveat that these feminists are ugly.
P.S.
Report Post »Still waiting for that study… No comment?
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Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:13am“P.S.
Still waiting for that study… No comment?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proving_a_negative
Try finding a study that shows Plan B causing a successfully implanted fertilized egg in a human to be aborted. As that’s your assertion.
Report Post »The Jewish Avenger
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:06pmNext week, if you use your debit card and say yes to a 5 year loan, you can also receive your diploma right next to the Ritalin. Just enter F – 0
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:05pmMan oh man what next– I guess they could hand them out for free every morning- Just put a bowl of them in each girls restrooms.
Report Post »PABlackie
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:04pmWhere was this pill when Obama’s mommy was prego. Wouldn’t be in such a mess that were in now.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:10pmHes proof that sometimes the doctor keeps the afterbirth and throws away the baby – as old DI used to tell us in basic training in the 60′s
Report Post »JimL
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:03pmAbortifacients should have a body/mind/heart/spirit-soul warning label: use of this product will…..
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:02pmThe pill will cost students $25? Obamacare will put a stop to that. All tuition will be raised to cover the cost of handing them out for free. Hasn’t the administration already declared that birth control and abortion are a “right” the government has so graciously bestowed on us?
Report Post »M13
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:10pmHow long before we see a “black market” in morning after pills?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:14pmWon’t be a need for a black market when the government passes them out for free.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:01pmObamaLand… next, Drugs!
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:24pmNO…they don’t want that! Drugs is a HUGE revenue stream for them through fines, prisons, and hiring lots of police to lock them up….Then when one of them gets a record for drugs they never work again thus they get on welfare and the cycle is $$$$$ to the gubment!!!
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