PSA: Emergency Contraception/Plan B

[anotheranon]

On a more serious note:

After reading this story about a woman who was repeatedly denied emergency contraception because she didn't meet (several different) doctors' prudish "criteria", I feel motivated to post the following:

GetThePill.Com, online prescriptions for emergency contraception

How to use emergency contraception, including emergency dosages of ordinary birth control pills

How to use it, where to get it, search by state

Disclaimer: I'm not a medical professional, but speaking as a woman who has dealt with a scare before:

If you're a woman of childbearing age, I'd recommend getting a prescription for EC, getting it filled, and stockpiling it, just in case. Even if you're currently using some form of birth control, even if you don't have sex with men. Just because in spite of our best intentions things sometimes go awry, and no one should have to call every pharmacy in a 200 mile radius in an emergency situation.

Update, 10:15 pm: Just saw this post in which the author suggests getting a script filled even if you AREN'T fertile, in case a friend needs it. My doc did the snip, so he knows I don't need it, anyone think it's possible I could get it elsewhere?

Comments

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Posting the information that's in their yellow pages listing or on the list of doctors on the outside wall of a clinic (their professional name and hospital/clinic affiliation) on a list of who refuses to prescribe is not a breach of privacy ... that's public data that they have chosen to make available and is the only info that consumers need to see to know who to avoid.

Posting personal information about the docs (their home phone numbers, addresses, names of spouses, children, parents, etc.) WOULD be out of line and anybody who did so would also end up on my personal disgusted-with list ... my province was the first to pass the Privacy Act (which forbids handing out the personal information of others without written or witnessed permission) and I'm very much a supporter of that particular law (there's the odd snag to it, but it sure beats having idiot co-workers give out your home phone number to anybody who calls your office when you're away).