Birth Control: The Untouchable Right?

As the ObamaCare mandate regarding Catholic medical groups possibly before forced to offer birth control and abortion to its members (although it now appears that a "compromise" is being hammered out), the various news stories being published presently seem to evince a growing radical and extremist bent to the "right" to birth control.  Here are some ...

Vending machine at Pennsylvania college dispenses 'morning after' pill

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.

"We value student input on matters that directly pertain to their health and safety so these results were an important part of the decision-making process," Gigliotti said in a statement emailed to FoxNews.com. "We are not the first one to make this available so this is not unique to us or to public higher education.  This decision was also made in consultation with our medical staff."

Plan B is available without a prescription to anyone 17 or older. Gigliotti said that all current students at Shippensburg -- a public school of roughly 8,300 students in central Pennsylvania -- fit that criteria.
"Any student who wants to discuss Plan B may do so at any time," Gigliotti's email continued. "In addition, medical information is provided with the Plan B for purchasers to read before its use."

The machine -- the only one on the school's campus -- is in a private room within the health center and is accessible only by students, Gigliotti said.
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The drug, which is isn't covered or subsidized by the school, is sold at the school's cost to the pharmaceutical company. The $25 price is less than the pill sells for at off-campus pharmacies, the Associated Press reports.

Allyson Oppman, a junior at Shippensburg studying criminal justice and a member of its Newman Association, said she thought the vending machine is a good idea.

"Sometimes, in certain situations, it's really needed," she told FoxNews.com. "And most people do not want to go to a pharmacy. It's more embarrassing to go to complete strangers."

Keisha Burns, a senior majoring in art at the university, said she thought it was acceptable for the pill to be offered on campus, but questioned the method of distribution.

"It's ridiculous that it's in a vending machine because it doesn't send the right message," Burns told FoxNews.com. "You can get a soda and potato chips in a vending machine, so it lightens the situation."

Burns said she would rather students be given the pill by a physician on campus.

"The way it's being presented to me is the issue," she said.
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I agree with Burns at the notion of selling Plan B in a vending machine sending the wrong message.  Have young women these days, brainwashed and aroused by Hollywood and feminism into believing that they derive their power from their seuxality, so intellectually numbed to the effects of wreckless sex and its emotional, spiritual, psychological effects ... even disregarding potential PHYSICAL effects to taking a drug that will induce a miscarriage?  A vending machine selling an abortifacient -- just like buying a candy bar. "Chocolate with your post-coitus "Gee, I wonder if I'm pregnant" after glow?"

In the wake of the huge uproar over the Susan G. Komen Foundation, a private organization, deciding to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, it was ironic how the "pro-choice" lobby said the decision was purely political.  And, yet, why did the Press not discuss why Komen made the decision -- that PP was under investigation.  What was Planned Parenthood under CONGRESSIONAL investigation for? Here's what The Los Angeles Times reported:

The congressional inquiry was launched in September by Rep.Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) to determine, among other things, whether Planned Parenthood has used public money to fund abortions. Although Planned Parenthood receives federal money, that money can't be used to provide abortions.

Here are two statements from Stearns on the status of the congressional investigation:

“As Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, I am leading a formal investigation into taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, which receives over $1 million a day in taxpayer money.  Repeated cases of Planned Parenthood ignoring state and local reporting requirements, many involving minors, and allegations of financial abuse led to this investigation – the first ever oversight conducted on this group.  We are still working with Planned Parenthood on getting the records and documents for the investigation, and I’m interested in holding a hearing depending on what the investigation discovers.”  [source]

Let's not forget the other scandals that have rocked PP, for which is should also be investigated.  What about the undercover video that caught a purported sex trafficker (read "pimp") trying to arrange care for his underage prostitutes?  And what about the failure of some PP workers to report cases of statutory rape?  Is there an investigation into "Shreddergate" with regard to abortions performed on fourteen-year-olds and falsifying the reports?