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Study: Pharmacies Lie To Teens About Legal Age To Get Emergency Contraception
It's legal for 17-year-olds to go to the pharmacy and buy emergency contraception like Plan B, but that isn't stopping pharmacy workers from lying to teens and telling them they're too young for it, says an undercover survey included in a new study. More »

Should More Schools Have Plan B Contraceptive Available From Vending Machines?
Pennsylvania's Shippensburg University is making headlines across the country today after newspapers and TV stations picked up an AP story about the school offering Plan B emergency contraceptive (you can also call it levonorgestrel if you're not into brand names) via a vending machine in the school's health center. More »

Judge Orders F.D.A. To Make Plan B Available To 17-Year-Olds

—>Great news, 17-year-olds! A federal judge has ruled that you can now avoid accidental babies by partaking in the emergency contraceptive wonder that is Plan B. Back in 2006, the Food and Drug Administration limited the contraceptive to women 18 and over, and ordered pharmacists to hide the drug behind their counters away from other common contraceptives. Judge Edward Korman ruled this week that the agency's decision was based on politics not science, and that it constituted an unacceptable public health buzzkill.  More »

Walgreens Jerks You Around When You Try To Buy Plan B

—>A reader's girlfriend tried to buy Plan B yesterday, but the Oxford, MS Walgreens pharmacy seemed to go out of their way to make it has hard as possible. Mere incompetence doesn't explain what happened. Instead, it sounds more like a consciously decided system of policies designed to discourage people from buying the pill...  More »

CVS Refuses Foreign ID To Buy "Plan B" Birth Control

—>Reader John and his friend Michelle found themselves in a situation where they needed to get "Plan B" birth control, also known as "the morning after pill." They went to their local CVS in Hawthorne, CA. and met an uncooperative pharmacist who refused them access to the pills because Michelle only had foreign ID to prove she is of legal age. (18+) The pharmacist also refused John's state issued ID with the reason that it could not be sold to man, however, the FDA's website clearly says that Plan B can be sold OTC to a man or woman who is 18 or over. Find out what happened to John and Michelle, inside....  More »

FDA Approves Over The Counter Plan B

—>Consumers everywhere can now put down their Siphilum divining rods, the Food and Drug Administration gave thumbs up for a next-day pregnancy prevention pill without prescription.  More »

FDA Says Plan B Causes Teen Sex Cults

What the hell? The Manhattan-based Center for Reproductive Rights is grilling FDA officials on their failure to approve the Plan B pill as a drug that can be distributed without a prescription. Why might they not have approved it?  More »

Wal-Mart To Begin Stocking Morning-After Pill

—>Wal-Mart, finally caving to opposition, will start selling the Plan B morning-after pill at its pharmacies across the nation this week. The decision comes after the Massachusetts Pharmacy Board determined that Wal-Mart was required to sell the pill in its 44 Massachusetts pharmacies, after a similar ruling in Illinois.  More »