Have We Just Given Up?

Students at a public Pennsylvania university can buy the "morning after" pill from a campus vending machine, though the school's minister is working to get the dispenser off of school grounds.

The vending machine at Shippensburg University's Etter Health Center that provides Plan B emergency contraceptive pills for $25 was installed after a survey found that 85 percent of student respondents supported it, according to Peter Gigliotti, the university's executive director for communications and marketing. The machine also dispenses condoms and pregnancy tests.

When I went to college, our vending machines sold Gardetto's snack mix and Doritos.

Evidently, no one cares anymore.  A girl seen buying her "fix" is to be admired for "taking control" - instead of just being considered a tramp.  Or maybe she will be by the men watching her make the purchase.  I wonder how gallant a young beau will seem, as he ushers his date to themachine and buys the supplies for a romantic tryst.  Because nothing says "I respect you" more.

What is Plan B?

Levonorgestrel is used in emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs), both in a combined Yuzpe regimen which includes estrogen, and as a levonorgestrel-only method. The levonorgestrel-only method uses levonorgestrel 1.5 mg (as a single dose or as two .75 mg doses 12 hours apart) taken within 3 days of unprotected sex, with one study indicating that beginning as late as 120 hours (5 days) after intercourse could be effective.

Oh, an abortifacient.

Seriously, have we just given up?  Does anyone have any self-respect anymore?  So many of these college students scream about "privacy rights" emanating from the 5th Amendment that provides a "right" to an abortion.

Privacy?!  When your plans for a Saturday night - or its aftermath - is as casual as getting a can of soda?