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FDA to college: Carry on with morning-after pill vending machines
The Washington Times ^ | 1/30/13 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 01/31/2013 9:01:24 PM PST by Slings and Arrows

Controversy has surrounded Shippensburg University, in Pennsylvania, ever since it decided to provide Plan B, commonly referred to as the “morning-after pill,” in a college campus vending machine along with condoms and other forms of birth control.

The Food and Drug Administration said last week that it had looked into the validity of the machine and will take no action against it.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: afterdaterapedrug; morningafterpill; napl; waronwomen
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To: Slings and Arrows; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; adopt4Christ; ...

What to watch out for in “higher” education when selecting a college.


21 posted on 02/01/2013 2:33:11 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: jmacusa

They already do... They’re called “energy drinks”.


22 posted on 02/01/2013 4:27:41 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: cherry

“... buying these pills and slipping them into their pregnant gf’s...”

That is the first thing that popped into my mind. This is a drug.. what happens if drug A interacts with drug B (a drug that the girl may already be taking?). What surprises me is Shippensburg is a nice, small looking school. It isn’t a huge school like U of Md (for example). We actually toured it last Spring. Looks can be deceiving.


23 posted on 02/01/2013 5:24:34 AM PST by momtothree
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To: Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!; wagglebee

Carrying on like this will lead to carrying on!


24 posted on 02/01/2013 5:58:52 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“You’ve gone too far, baby.”


25 posted on 02/01/2013 6:34:20 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

“Oh Brave New World...”


26 posted on 02/01/2013 7:57:16 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“Slightly depopulated - expect to work for a living.”


27 posted on 02/01/2013 9:47:37 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Slings and Arrows

No boyfriend would ever go to a vending machine and put this pill into his prego girlfriends food....


28 posted on 02/01/2013 9:16:57 PM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: Walkingfeather

It’s unthinkable.


29 posted on 02/01/2013 9:40:59 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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