Walgreens Refuses to Sell Plan B to Men
womensrights.change.org/blog/view/walgreens_r...Posted Nov 23, 2010, 3:32 AM UTC
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That just seems really bizarre.. Why wouldn't you give it to men? I mean.. what are they going to do with it apart from give it to their SO's?
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Maybe the woman actually WANTS a baby and the evil, evil man will slip her the pill, evil style. /sarcasm
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There was actually a guy on reddit a while back who admitted he snuck in plan B into his girlfriend's food when he suspected she might be pregnant. The community really hated him for it.
But I don't think think all men should be denied access to the pill just because some douchebags exist.
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That wouldn't work, anyway - Plan B does absolutely nothing if a woman is already pregnant (i.e., a fertilized egg has already implanted on the uterine lining). It doesn't cause miscarriages, it only prevents fertilization, ovulation, and the implantation of a fertilized egg - none of which are medically defined as pregnancy.
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In the latest SVU, the "bad guy" (the boyfriend) used a crushed up Misoprostol mixed with lube to have his girlfriend miscarry.
Never mind the fact that the pill was also used for erectile dysfunction and the "bad guy" had that diagnose.. I think eh was charged with "aborton" or something like that.
Weird episode.
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Read the comments on the page, supposedly enlightened women saying that the men would just rape women and force them to take the pills.
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Really? That's bizarre.
When I went to get Plan-B they asked me how many I wanted, told me it would be $55 and that was that.
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I guess it was just the pharmacies near me. I haven't been in a long time; all these pharmacies were in Thousand Oaks, CA. I no longer live there.
Now that I'm more mature, I make fewer careless errors with birth control than I did as an 18 and 19 year old.
It was designed to harass me, definitely.
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Wow..
on the other hand, given how reproductive coercion is actually a problem in many abusive relationships, i can see how a responsible pharmacist may be unwilling to dispense plan B to a man.
Because a woman obviously wouldn't be buying it to spite her SO who wants to have a baby and understands that she wants one too. Coercion and deceit go both ways!
I much prefer Claires comment:
That's the same with anything you can buy with age limits, though. I'm twenty-one, so I can buy alcohol. I could be using it to get men drunk and rape them. I've bought male condoms before, despite being female. More possible rape happening there.
Besides, couldn't the woman be the abusive partner here? What if she's getting Plan B because she's been having sex with a fourteen year old boy and doesn't want his parents finding out? Should both parties have to present themselves, with proof of identification, willing to undergo medical tests that they are, in fact, the ones who committed the sex act that may lead to pregnancy?
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crush it up and put it in apple sauce?
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What the hell!
Maybe a man can be purchasing it for someone who is ashamed or scared or too young, sure.
Honestly, though, I don't care if the guy was just purchasing it to keep around his friggin' bedroom. Like, "Oh, shit. Condom failure. Be cool Lady Friend, I GOT THIS SHIT," and then he digs out a fucking Plan B dose from his nightstand. In fact, upon deliberation, I think this is awesome and all men should do it. If I were scared about a condom failure and the guy whipped out fucking Plan B on the spot, I'd sleep with him again, immediately.
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This happened to me in a Walgreens in Palo Alto (http://bit.ly/h0FtE1). I kept telling her it was unlawful and that it was not certainly a company policy but the pharmacist wouldn't budge.
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File a complaint and seek to have the pharmacist's licensed revoked. If you let people get away with this crap, they'll keep doing it. If you put a few heads on poles, they'll stop.
Any pharmacist who even hears about another pharmacist up for license revocation will steer wide of whatever behaviour caused it.
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Well it's been 5 months now, but I totally should have filed some sort of complaint at the time of the incident.
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This was a design decision by me!
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Ahh, fair enough!
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Confirmed. My boyfriend tried to get it once and was told it could only be sold to a female. Planned Parenthood, though, had no problem distributing it.
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They'll even give it out to men! (When they're giving it out, which happens every so often.) I really liked that, it showed that they really see birth control as the responsibility of both parties.
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But they will sell you emergency boner hardening pills.
Is anybody really surprised by this? The goal of anybody who denies contraceptives is to punish women with pregnancy. If there's anybody who you can say just can't be falling for the "plan B = abortion" bullshit, it's a pharmacist.
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Refuse to buy from Walgreens. Simple.
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This doesn't just happen at Walgreens. I've seen this happen at Target, Walmart, and CVS while working as a tech and later as a pharmacy intern. There is no company policy for any of these companies on Plan B. The companies just tell the pharmacists to use their best judgment.
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Best judgment? Why would you not sell someone this?
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If the woman ends up getting pregnant due to a drug interaction (CYP3A4 inducer) and she wasn't directly counseled on the product, is the pharmacy liable for the baby?
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For what it is worth, I'm a man who successfully purchased a Plan B from a Walgreens (in the north east, not Texas).
Although the guy was rude (maybe tired, it was the middle of the night) he sold it to me with no trouble.
Man, was that a relief (broken condom).
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What if the man insisted he was a woman? All it takes is just a very convincing cross dresser? For some reason, I bet the people who don't want to sell plan b to men are the same people that don't want to sell it to women as well
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FDA’s federal guidelines, which state that anyone 17 years and over can purchase the Morning After Pill
a representative told him that "the pharmacist has the right to refuse service, and that the store has an unwritten rule that they will not sell the product to men unless the woman is present
Also, where did you get "the dude"'s age? It's not stated in the article.
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His age is not the issue. The first paragraph states that the FDA guidelines allow it to be sold to anyone 17 years and over.
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the FDA's decision to deny EC access to underage women
Here in the UK, if you're underage it's free.
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Why am I not surprised that this happened in Texas out of any state out there?
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Fuck Texas.
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CVS would not sell it to me (male) without my girlfriend's ID.
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shitshitshitshit i really shouldn't reading this right now, i'm freaking the fuck out. shishitshitsht.
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What's goin' on?
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He's high. He thinks the words on the page are jumping out at him and creating fungus colonies in his brain.
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Now he's sitting there wondering how all these people know that this is happening
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I was drunk. Things happened. It's fine now though.
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Oh. Good to hear. :P
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A night to remember/forget depending on who you ask.
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when Adam Drake tried to buy the pill in a Walgreens in Houston, the pharmacist turned him down
Poor guy.
In other words, Walgreens holds the moral high ground over all women who can’t keep their legs closed
But I thought this was about males being denied the right to buy the pill?
this is yet another attempt to control women
HAHAHA.
Yes another attempt to re-frame blatant misandry as oh, the poor wimminz.
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I remember the time I bought Plan B, a good friend had just been raped and she could not afford to buy it for herself. I was a man buying emergency contraceptive.
When she was more comfortable we took her to the police station and a rape kit was performed that evening.
I didn't even know men could purchase it.
Before 2006, no men did (it was Rx only). When the OTC Plan B was approved, many of the pharmacists I worked with as a tech were reluctant to give this to men (they weren't used to it).
In the recent years I have noticed more pharmacists willing to give this to men, even if they thought it was wrong. The pharmacies are pretty busy, and an ethical argument with a customer takes up a lot of time.
Why would it be wrong? I pick up things for my girlfriend all the time.
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