UConn Installs ‘Plan B’ Contraception Vending Machines on Campus
“This is just one of the many ways we’re working to expand access to contraception and other important medications in Connecticut.”
Connecticut is a super blue state, so this isn’t much of a surprise.
The New York Post reports:
UConn installs emergency ‘Plan B’ contraception vending machines on campus
The University of Connecticut started providing Plan B through new vending machines on campus in early February following the passage of a 2023 law expanding contraception access in the state.
The state law — introduced after the overturning of Roe v. Wade — allows licensed pharmacists to prescribe contraception at pharmacies across the state following a brief training program and also permits over-the-counter medications like the emergency contraceptive Plan B to be sold in vending machines.
The law officially went into effect on Dec. 27, 2024. UConn quickly took advantage of the law and installed its first emergency contraceptive vending machine on the Storrs campus.
The training program developed by the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy launched in early February following approval from the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, according to a statement from Gov. Ned Lamont’s office. The program is entirely elective for the state’s 671 licensed pharmacies.
“This is just one of the many ways we’re working to expand access to contraception and other important medications in Connecticut. Pharmacists have continued to play a growing role in our healthcare system, from administering vaccines to dispensing Narcan and other lifesaving medications, and now prescribing birth control. They are a critical part of the healthcare network,” Lamont said in the release.
State officials argued that providing more points of care for birth control would make it easier for lower-income people to access, particularly those without a gynecologist or the ability to see one.
“There can be many barriers to going to a primary care provider for contraception — potential costs, needing to take time off work, or traveling long distances. That is why both patients and pharmacists overwhelmingly offered their support for this change,” Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz said in a press release.
DONATE
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
I’m so old I remember what the word was that came after “Griswold versus.”
And remember that Griswold was only about a constitutional right for married people to buy contraceptives. The decision did not establish such a right for single people.
Note well what is really going on here. They passed a law about contraception, in response to a decision that had nothing to do with contraception.
Anti-lifers have for years been on a deliberate campaign to try to convince low-information voters that pro-lifers have something against contraception, that pro-lifers would like to ban it, and are trying to ban it, and need to be stopped from doing so.
But it’s just not true. The pro-life movement has nothing against contraception. It has no desire to interfere with it. It may be that some pro-life people also oppose contraception, just as it may be that some pro-life people oppose “hate speech”, or the designated hitter rule. It’s a large movement and you will probably find every shade of opinion within it, on any topic but that of abortion.
More to the point, there is absolutely no support in US politics for any kind of ban on contraception. No one is even suggesting such legislation, let alone passing any. So the whole purpose of laws like this new CT one , or this stupid and dishonest piece of theater by a Democrat clown in Mississippi, is to help a lie penetrate voters’ minds, and influence them to vote Democrat.
They’re spinning FUD. It’s just about all they have left to sell.
What’s to prevent minors from accessing these vending machines?
Nothing. Should there be? Is it against some law for teenagers to buy contraceptives?!
Contraceptives – rubbers, dams, etc. no. Even the good old “pill” has risks warranting a doctor to screen for risk factors. The morning-after pills were once required to be administered by a physician who would monitor the results, for the risks involved. The biggest poster child for how dangerous it was to restrict abortions, Amber Nicole Thurman dies after she took a morning after pill outside the recommended window after conception. Not everything was expelled after she took it and she failed to seek treatment until she was septic. The emergency room docs sat on their hands because they didn’t understand the law and she died.
1) Because she took mefipristone or similar drug without understanding the risks and waited too long to get treatment. Because agenda driven idiots at the FDA had it declared safe and not requiring supervision. Which it does..
2) Stupid doctors. Emergency rooms will not refuse service to a person in crisis. The fetus was dead, they knew it was dead. No doctor is supposed to refuse treatment of a person in crisis. They killed her through malpractice.
But no, aside from some bible thumpers, no one is proposing a ban on contraception and I’m certainly not.
No, she didn’t. She took RU486 or some equivalent, which is unambiguously an abortifacient.
“Plan B” is not, on its face, an abortifacient. It’s just an extra-large dose of the normal Pill. It prevents implantation, which the Catholic Church regards as a kind of abortion, but most people don’t.
Good question. It is a medication though with possible negative side effects and teenagers are minors of course.
So are many over-the-counter medications that teenagers are allowed to buy at will.