Vending Machine Provides Plan B

The fact that you felt no judgement is kinda beside the point Star and frankly I'm amazed you felt none. From everything you tell us about where you live if you didn't directly know the guy at the pharmacy your Mom or Dad did and it's all over your town that you're a little slut who had unprotected sex. The facts aren't that but I assume you didn't discuss the details with the cashier. Now put yourself in your 16 year old selfs shoes. This is kinda funny but it's not bad.

Well not necessarily is it besdies the point, my point being embarrissment/privacy isn't a very good reason to put it in a vending machine bc the pharmacy's are very accomodating and nice... I realize that people have preconcieved notions about where I live, despite what I may or may not say people still keep their opinion, based from what i've said pulling from me memory, I live in a republican state of wodnerfully good moral generous people that genuinely care for eachother....Sure we all know eachothers business and its entirely possibly the pharmacist was a devout Catholic, but like I said "good people" live in Nebraskie and most believe and adhere to "though shalt not judge..."...We are just nice is all. : ) But I figure its that way in most places no? I was also 60 miles away from my hometown when I bought it...cause they dont even sell it in my town tehehe...16 year olds need a note and a script for it, so if I was 16 I would be fucked. I dont think its necessarily bad but I just wish it wasn't a vending machine....I think it sends the message like its no big deal...thats what I think is fucked up...

I think the point is that it's not a big deal. You don't even actually know if it did anything at all. IT's not like everytime someone has unprotected sex that a pregnancy occurs. You just took a precaution and it shouldn't be seen as anything more than wearing a condom in the first place.

But it is more than wearing a condomn in the first place...I was a little confused when it stated that plan B prevents the egg from being fertilized bc I was under the impression that it is meant to destroy an already fertilized egg (if there was one). It prolly does both like Reckoner likes to point out about the IUD. I just think that its fucked up to give out plan b like nothing at all...It sends the message that it equal to condoms or that its a form of birth control, and thats not its intended use. .

Except that it really is equal to condoms. I'm not certain "intended purpose" has anything to do with anything. A book isn't intended to be a paper weight, a shovel isn't intended to be a weapon, a tax isn't intended to influence behavior, sex isn't a spectator sport. Doesn't mean that any of the periphal uses are inherently wrong just that when the guy who made (or nature) created it that wasn't the primary purpose of it.

If thats true why isn't plan b sold right alongside condoms everywhere? Why do you have to be 18 to buy it?

Same reason two men can't enter into a legal partnership that gives them tax breaks and the right to make medical decisions for each other. Religious people get too large a say in things and in some cases nobody really cares to fight them on it.

How many people of all ages (especially underage) will pay a "legal student" to purchase the Plan B pill for them?

I think its a certainty Wombie....I really do think they need parental consent cause obviously they have something twisted around if they are 14 and running around buying morning after pills from Wendy the RA...well that just isn't right.

It's better than giving birth at 15 because you couldn't get them and your parents wouldn't sign off on the abortion. A fifteen year old slut might one day turn her life around (and that's if she's not getting decent grades. It didn't seem when I was in school that there was an inverse relationship between slutty and inteligence. If anything because you needed at least a C average to be on the Cheerleading Squad it kinda weeded the dumb ones out) but a fifteen year old mother. She's never gonna get anywhere unless she's extraordinarly talented. Which isn't to say it's impossible. It's not. There are twelve year olds attending college because they were so smart they tested out of everything but at some point I kinda prefer dealing with the likely than the it can happen.

Well yea its better than her actually getting pregnant, but as a parent, i'd would want to know if my daughter is running around spending her allowance on Plan B! This prevents the need for her to talk to me... Man im glad I dont have a daughter!

That's a matter of being a good parent though. It doesn't prevent the need to have the talk. That should IMHO happen precisely at her first period if not a little bit before. That's a huge part of the problem in this country vs everywhere else in the world is that we're such prudes that we don't have the talk until we litterally walk in on our children in the act. Add on that those same prudes fight sex education in the class room and you have kids who learn by a combination of porn, heresay from friends and figuring it out on their own. What's worse is that a lot of these kids because of we've handled it are afraid to go to their parents and ask and even if they did a lot of their parents don't know much beyond the very basics and some even get that wrong. It's not hard to figure out why we have a higher teen pregnancy rate than virtually anywhere in the world despite the fact that the rest of the world has much more sex in the media than we do (basically they get everything we get and then stuff that we never get) it can't be that our minimum age of consent is to low since in most of the world it's 16 and in lots of places it can be 15 and I think a few are lower than that but not many but 16 is the average. It can't be the drinkinging as you don't need to be 21 in most of the world to drink 18 cuts it damn near anyplace and I think lower with parental consent.

It's the end result of ignorance meeting up against human nature. I agree that I'd want to know also but if I don't know what my child's doing (the sex part not the going to a vending machine part) then I'm not keeping very good track of my child am I?

I agree...parents definitly need to do the sex talk earlier and more honestly. Your exactly right tho, I remember when my parents glazed over the sex talk with me, my boyfriend was sitting on the edge of my bed putting his shoes on without a shirt. Ahh to be 16 again.