PA school offers Plan B vending machine
by Charlie Butts
Shippensburg Universityin Pennsylvania is now selling the “morning-after” pill via a vending machine. A pro-family group in that state believes that sends the wrong message to students. [Ya think?!]
For $25, people with access to campus health services at Shippensburg can buy Plan B from a machine, just like they would a soda or a bag of chips. Diane Gramley of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania finds that appalling.
“To begin with, they’re approving the sexual activity of their students — and they’re not providing the young ladies with the correct information about Plan B, about the morning-after pill,” Gramley explains. “If they are pregnant, it actually does not allow the implantation of the fertilized egg — and that’s just killing their baby.”
University officials say a survey of students found that the vast majority were in favor of having the pill available through campus health services. The pro-family spokeswoman questions that as well.
“It’s interesting that that survey was taken several years ago,” she notes, “and it says that 85 percent of the respondents wanted the availability of the morning-after pill. Now our question to the school is: How many students actually responded?”
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