{"id":326431,"date":"2025-02-16T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T19:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=326431"},"modified":"2025-02-15T20:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T02:52:05","slug":"university-connecticut-plan-b-vending-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/university-connecticut-plan-b-vending-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Connecticut adds vending machines for Plan B ’emergency contraception’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thanks to two<\/a> state<\/a> laws allowing easier distribution of birth control, the University of Connecticut (UConn) has become the first institution in the state of Connecticut to allow Plan B ’emergency contraception’ to be sold through on-campus vending machines, further encouraging casual sex. In addition, UConn’s School of Pharmacy plans to begin training pharmacists in prescribing birth control.<\/p>\n

In 2023, state lawmakers voted<\/a> to allow the sale of birth control and contraception in vending machines. The first Plan B vending machine at UConn is located<\/a> on the Storrs campus due to the efforts Student Health and Wellness (SHaW) medical director Dr. Peter Davis Smith.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liz Gustafson, Connecticut state director of Reproductive Equity Now, wrote in an email to the Yale Daily News<\/a> that the “vending machines are life-changing” for those who \u201cdon\u2019t have easy access to off-campus transportation or for whom cost is a barrier.”<\/p>\n

Allowing young women or men to obtain Plan B through a vending machine removes the opportunity for women to receive counseling regarding their desire to take Plan B, including those who may have experienced sexual assault. Though the AP reported<\/a> in 2023 that it would be better for sexual assault survivors to have access when pharmacies are closed and allow those survivors anonymity, it also denies them immediate support and the opportunity to report the assault.<\/p>\n

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