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BY BLAKE HANSON
A7, B6, G9...might be all you need to press to get yourself the Plan B contraceptive. Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania recebntly decided to add the “morning-after pill” to vending machines. Here’s KYW...
“The Plan B contraception can be obtained through a machine in the health center. Each dose costs $25 and the university will not make money from the sales.”
No student health fees go toward the pill. The university pays a pharmaceutical company $25 bucks for the drug. A reporter for NPR says prices are normally a lot higher for the popular pill.
“It costs, on average, $50. But it can cost as much as $90. Despite the expense, this type of contraception is slowly becoming more popular among women.”
The university says it made the decision to carry the pill after 85 percent of the student population said they’d support the idea. A reporter on WZVN talks with a school official who think this boils down to privacy...
“It’s really there, the machine is really used as much for privacy as anything else, if a person wants to come in.”
Meanwhile, WHAG spoke with a Shippensburg student who wasn’t pleased with the plan...
“‘I don't think it should be sold on campus … I do know it's sold in Rite-Aid, and Walmart and CVS, but I don't think it should be on campus, because it's just promoting unsafe sex.’”
