Shippensburg University - a relatively small college of some 8300 students in the Cumberland Valley of PA. The town itself only has about 5531 residents. Perhaps the reason is the morning after pill that's readily available on campus in a vending machine - great for population control.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't take any regulatory action over a vending machine at a Pennsylvania college that dispenses the morning-after pill.
The pill is available for $25 at a health center vending machine that's accessible to students and university employees.
Administrators said the idea for the machine came from a student survey and was endorsed by the student government.
Well, there you go. The students wanted it and the student government said OK, end of discussion. Sounds like a sane process to me. Kind of like your kids saying they want a weekly $50 allowance, they voted on it, so gimme.
Not only does it dispense the pill, it also dispenses condoms, pregnancy tests, and decongestants. It seems to me if it just dispensed condoms, you probably wouldn't need the pill or the pregnancy tests. The decongestants is a mystery - I know when I think of birth control, my mind goes to a persons nasal passages. Maybe it's used as a form of a date drug that lulls the partner to sleep so that you can have your way with them.
The other thing here is it's available to university employees. It just sounds odd in pointing that out in the article. Makes it sound like quite a swinging campus. And with both students and faculty having access to birth control, I wonder how many hot-for-teacher episodes there have been.
At least one notable alumnus is against it.
“It’s the wrong thing to do in my judgment. I don’t think it’s a good idea,” Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican and chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, said in an interview with editors and reporters at The Washington Times.
“The idea that you put it out there and say, ‘Well, most of our students are over 17, so probably no kids will come in here.’ … It’s a very, very bad move,” he said.
The school claims that the machine is monitored by a health center attendant so not just anybody can buy them. Yeah, and there's never been a Brinks courier that's ever robbed a bank or a nurse that's ever distributed drugs to a minor. And they say it's not encouraging sexual activity. Then why have it? Why not say sexual activity on campus will not be tolerated, period. Stimulus is a powerful thing. If you see it in front of you, your mind is thinking of how to get it or use it. Geez, I'd think a school of higher learning would get that.
