~sigh~ i wish we could catch up.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

"One of Britain's largest supermarket chains plans to give teen-agers the morning-after contraceptive pill for free as part of a national effort to reduce the number of teen pregnancies.... The morning-after pill is a high dose of birth control pill taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy. It is already available free with a prescription, but many women do not want to wait for a doctor's appointment and buy it over the counter for a fee."

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20020318_489.html

(btw, you can contact the store http://www.tesco.com/ if you'd like to let them know how you feel about it.)

Comments

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

I'd be a bit worried about offering the morning after pill with no prescription necessary from a health point of view. I don't have any problem with it being low cost and easily available, but the idea of it being available for indiscriminate use makes me a bit nervous.

Of course, most OTC drugs can cause problems of some sort or another.

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[winterknight.livejournal.com]

oh, i have serious reservations about it being available over the counter, but if it is, then i think the gesture the chain is making is a generous one and one of the first times i've seen a major corporation openly support a pro-choice agenda.