In a perfect world the next line of the story would’ve read “Wendy Wright was then laughed out of the room and immediately fired for being a moron.” You know, there’s a reason there’s insufficient knowledge on this subject, Wendy- because nobody’s done it and most likely nobody will do it. And I don’t really think you believe it either. I think you’re a liar who’s dressing up your anti-abortion objections to the morning after pill as a women’s safety issue. I really wish the WaPo would’ve called her on it.
Does she imagine the girl’s date doing this? I mean, yeah, that’s really really quite exceptionally fucking moronic, but I bet some dude somewhere is stupid enough to get drunk and think “Yeah, I’ll slip her a little pill. No condoms for me!” :rolleyes:
She’s just trying to make sure that when time travel is invented evil geniuses won’t have the “drug slipped into the drink” option to eliminate their nemisises (nemisi?) before they’re ever born.
In the area that I work, it is constantly leafletted by activist groups. I regularly see leaflets from born agains, JWs, scared white men who want to rail against the outsourcing of america, and just the other day, Concerned Women for America.
Gotta tell you, reading the CWA brochure I am officially now a Concerned Man for America.
I thought of writing this Anti-Feminist group an E-mail, but then I realized that they’d just love for their leafletting to provoke a response. So I chucked in the garbage instead.
Hang on now, who, exactly, is going to do this “slipping”?
A man?
And how exactly is he going to get his hands on these pills?
Even if they’re available without a doctors visit, I’m still thinking pharmacists are going to want them consumed on the premises, and will probably not be handing them out to men.
I doubt that they’re talking about slipping a contraceptive in someone’s drink at a bar. The more likely senario would be a husband putting it his wife’s food so that she won’t get knocked up because she wants kids and he doesn’t have the balls to tell her that he doesn’t.
I was going to say that this would require many food doctorings - not to mention a lot of purchases of this drug which might set off some alarm bells at the pharmacy - but I guess that depends on how often a couple has sex…
I’d assume, though, that if the woman wanted kids and the guy was pretending like he did, they’d try to have sex a lot around her possible ovulation time, which could mean a week or more of daily food dosings, in addition to any between-ovulation times.
The proposed switch is to make the pills available over the counter. Pharmacists wouldn’t have any more control over who buys them than over who buys aspirin. Even if they did, they wouldn’t be able to insist on only dispensing them to women who take them on-site. Firstly, there would be privacy issues involved (since this would be the only drug thusly treated, it would be like hanging a neon sign on someone’s chest that reads “I had unprotected sex.”) Not going to happen in America, darlin’. Secondly, such a policy would be impractical. Emergency contraception is a 3-day course, and it just wouldn’t work out to make people keep coming back in or to keep track of who’s on what day, etc.
So it’s perfectly conceivable that guys would be buying them, at least some of the time, just like they buy pads and tampons and pregnancy tests sometimes. It’s incredibly stupid to think that someone would slip you emergency contraception in a casual setting, because the odds of them having access to your drinks for three days in a row would be incredibly small. If someone would have close enough contact with you to make it feasible, there are a lot of better, more cost-effective ways to deal with the issue. The old nocturnal headache springs to mind.
I think it varies by brand, dogfish. The ones Student Health used when I was in college were a dose a day for three days, but some of the others might be two doses twelve hours apart. “Pill class” (they made us go through a lecture about birth control before they’d give us a script) was almost ten years ago, and there might be some more convenient options now.
It’s exactly this sort of thing the FDA didn’t consider. :rolleyes:
I can easily picture guys buying “Plan B”, but I can’t figure a situation where you’d want to slip 'em to an unknowing person within a 72 hour window of boinking (assuming that you’re the sort of amoral jagoff who’d be willing to do this). OK, maybe I can picture some people who might consider it…
Clicking around the Concerned Women For America site, I found her testimony in PDF form where she continues with her “will be used against women without their knowledge or consent” shtick. And in her conclusions, she says:
Give me a fucking break. “Good thing he knocked her up, otherwise we would’ve never known he was raping her!” :smack:
I live in one of the states where you don’t need a prescription for emergency contraception - and I’m relatively sure I’ve seen Preven & Plan B (which has been on the market for quite awhile) in the aisle with the rest of the OTC medication. But I’m not entirely sure.
I’ll check on the way home.
But the title had me picturing a floating foil packet in my margarita.
Perhaps emergency contraception has gotten better since my run-in with it 8 years ago (I’m in Canada, where you can get it with a prescription)
Even if someone did manage to slip two doses twelve hours apart the “victim” would probably have a good idea SOMETHING was wrong.
I’ve never been so sick in my life.
(and, for the record - A condom was involved - it broke. They do that)
I second what the Lady said - it’s not like you don’t notice three days of nausea, vomiting, and headaches (a typical reaction). My own, very aypical, reaction to the stuff is still a clear memory, now fifteen years later.
(TMI alert: I had no symptoms for two days, then at dawn on the third day, I had my entire period in about fifteen minutes. Cramping, gushing, a torrent of blood - then it was over. Bizarre.)
Well if the guy and girl had unprotected sex around O time and the guy does not want a baby I can see him maybe slipping her one or 2 doses on the sly.
Also I am still waiting to hear on the news of a school or other setting where teen girls are experimenting w/ sex, to be given some form of birth control mixed in their lunch or something, without there knowleage in an attempt to stop teen pregancys.
That’s an interesting hypothetical scenario, kanicbird, but what about this one? A man and a woman have unprotected sex and the woman has been skipping her birth control because she wants to trap her man into a marriage with child.
That scenario is happening now, and yet nobody is particularly outraged over it, because the solution to both of them is the same: the man should wear a condom if he doesn’t want to risk having a child. Maybe it’s not foolproof, but you’d be surprised what fools come up with.