Comments on: Wal-Mart: supporting a pharmacist’s right to choose

By: Crystal

Crystal — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:36:33 +0000

I know this is kind of an unpopular view, but I think that it makes sense to have Plan B distributed by prescription, only because the level of hormones make it unhealthy to use more than occasionally. I suppose that the problem with this is the amount of (very crucial) time that this can take. Perhaps just showing ID and them registering your name to make sure you’re not coming in to get it too often would be more appropriate (for women of all ages).
What bums me out about this, besides the obvious ridiculousness of denying contraception to any woman, is the high price. I mean, luckily I’ve never needed to get this, but being young and extremely poor, I know that there are many times (actually most of the time) when I absolutely would not have the money for a $50 pill.
I’m not sexually active right now so I’m not on birth control, but as an uninsured person, I’m not sure if it will be easy for me to afford it when I do. This really bums me out. I find it weird that the state will pay welfare to women who have children they can’t afford, but won’t pay for contraception for women who can’t afford it.

By: Tashina

Tashina — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:39:50 +0000

I love some of the responses here. That the picture was photoshopped (they did make my hair seem shorter) when the fact of the matter was the guy in columbus went out of his way to keep asking me to hold my head lower and lower, giving me the double chin effect. Makes me wonder if it wasn’t his intention to make me look like crap due to his own politics. And I started that wishlist last year around halloween, I happen to like goth clubs. Heaven forbid a woman not take her image too seriously.

Anywhoo, not that any of that has to do with anything. Even if I’d just rolled out of bed with a red plastic beer cup stuck to my ass, jizz in my hair, and walked in with four kids and six guys, every woman is entitled Plan B. It doesn’t matter who I am, what I’m into, what kind of life I lead. It just happens I lead one that’s relatively marketable. The whole monogamy, already has a kid thing played into this pretty perfectly but I’d have come forward regardless. If we don’t SAY SOMETHING then nothing will change. And this guy was a dick.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:37:23 +0000

Hey Tashina, you’re more than welcome to write your own account here. I view it not as self-promotion, but as cause-promotion. Readers of this blog share their harrowing experiences with injustice all the time, to everyone’s benefit.

By: Tashina

Tashina — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:59:24 +0000

Yeah, I’m disappointed they won’t let me tell it like it is as well. So you caught me, googling my name for things to touch on tonight at c-bus ohio’s EC and Ice Cream…anyway. There’s another NARAL thing coming out, the same rehashing they just want me to slap my name on. I’m torn between saying “I’LL WRITE IT MYSELF!” and the idea of at least getting the damned message out. Ugh. I haven’t spoken about it online, because I don’t like that kind of self promotion, but I just had to say that about the NARAL pr writing thing.

By: Caroc

Caroc — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:56:23 +0000

To my mind, christianists such as Mr Beams don’t really do anything on religious grounds, but on power grounds. They want women to do what THEY say. Imagine the thrill when Mr Beams realised that he could deny a woman what she needed and to laugh at her at the same time. He must have been giddy with the power-freak for months.

May I recall the immortal feminist essay by Anna Lee? She says ‘it’s all about power.’ And yes, even a bumptious pharmacist sups up that gravy.

By: ladyjaye

ladyjaye — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:13:42 +0000

I’m always appalled when I read about an American pharmacist refusing to sell the pill or Plan B and getting away with it. Here in Quebec, this is unheard of — the pharmacists’ professional order would be on that person’s ass in no time and they’d be fined and/or suspended. (and yeah, Plan B has been OTC here for the past couple of years, but for anyone age 14 and over).

Anyways, what’s next, banning condoms because they encourage promiscuity in this day and age of abstinence? I wouldn’t be surprised, considering how there’s been an anti-condom campaign for a while… *rolls eyes*

By: Pony

Pony — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:44:19 +0000

Oh goodness Laurel, the marketing. It’s so expensive. All those billboards and media spots, pitching those little blue pi.. Oh wait that’s Viagra.

Apparently it’s the counselling. Pharmacist’s are urged by their professional associations to counsel you. To do this they will need to know when you last had sex, how many times you have had sex in the past 24 hours, if you used a condom, if it broke, if you have a venereal disease, if you are on the pill, if you’ve had oral sex, when you’ve last had your period. Whew.

Counselling.

http://tinyurl.com/9c6qo

http://www.pharmacists.ca/content/about
_cpha/Whats_Happening/CPhA_in_Action/pdf/
ECP_PatientScreeningFormForECPs.pdf

By: I Blame the Patriarchy. And The Matriarchy, Too. « MotherMe

I Blame the Patriarchy. And The Matriarchy, Too. « MotherMe — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:30:25 +0000

[...] Anyway, one of Twisty’s recent posts concerns a WalMart pharmacist who allegedly denied a young woman the over-the-pharmacist’s-counter “Plan B” contraceptive pill, and who then sniggered at the woman’s vain attempt to procure said pill from his Bastion of Moral Highroadiness. Dear Twisty is rightly outraged at this nasty tale. As am I. [...]

By: Laurel

Laurel — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:12:52 +0000

Wait! This shit is $46.16???????!!! Other legitimate issues aside, what the fuck is with the PRICE?

By: jaye

jaye — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:31:19 +0000

“If they are so concerned with all elements that make up â€œlifeâ€ where are their efforts at stopping menâ€™s â€œwasteful self-abuseâ€?! Surely such a mission is worthy of any godbag.”

I can hardly type this. I am fighting the urge to run up to Wall*Hell and run down the alse screaming “stop wasting your seed my brothers, stop jacking off!”