Are you aware that there is a “Morning After” pill? (Emergency Contraception)
7-23-12
I did some local research. It seems that if a female has unprotected sex or some other issue that leaves the possibility that she may become pregnant, the “Morning After” pill may not be readily available in Madison. One pharmacy said they would have to order it. This could be a real problem.
What exactly is the Morning After pill?
*Morning-After Pill (Emergency Contraception) at a Glance*
-Birth control you can use to prevent pregnancy up to five days (120 hours) after unprotected sex
-Two kinds of emergency contraception — morning-after pill and IUD insertion
-Safe and effective
-Available at health centers and drugstores
-Costs vary from $10 to $70 for the morning-after pill and up to $500 for IUD insertion
Is Emergency Contraception Right for Me?
Accidents happen — that’s why we have emergency contraception (also known as the morning-after pill). Did you have intercourse without using protection? Did you forget to use your birth control correctly? Did the condom break, leaving you worried about becoming pregnant? If so, emergency contraception might be a good choice for you.
Here are some of the most common questions we hear women ask about emergency contraception. We hope the answers help you decide if it is right for you.
Source and for more information: PlannedParenthood.org
PLEASE visit the above link for more information.
Now, now, Tyler, maybe you should contact the Skip Jarvis office and voluntarily enroll in an anger management class. You need to work on that rage and it is only a few hundred dollars and a month or so.
@Peasant
your one of maybe 3 people who comment on this site that don’t send me into a complete rage at their stupidity, thanks for being one of the good ones.
@Wayne,
Perhaps you did not read my post. Most businesses in Madison rely on money sent to these folks monthly from these assistance programs. Rental assistance pays for occupancy of local owned housing. Check with these landlords and see if they want it cut off. Food assistance funds is spent at local grocery stores. Cash assistance in some cases is spent at local fast food joints. Basic necessities funds are spent at local clothing and general usage stores, ie. Freds, Dollar General, etc.
Our poor are just like the poor across the nation. What are you suggesting that we let the starve? Live in the streets? Go without basic medical care? Have more babies. My friend you really need to pay attention to what is going on around you.
The next several decades are going to be interesting. As energy availability continues to decline, not from availability but cost, and our local core economic sector , agriculture, looses its ability to gain access to needed energy supplies, many of these folks, across the demographic spectrum will be needed for manual labor. Perhaps it is only us older citizens who recall how our population was distributed across the county 50-75 years ago.
One thing I am always reluctant to say but what the heck, is that based on the votes in the presidential primaries this spring it was clear to anyone who follows the details that a strong racial component exists in our county. My friend, there are more poor whites than blacks and folks need to understand we are all in this together. Reach out to these poor folks. Blaming them for all our problems is absurd! Many of our poor do not even have access to a small piece of land to grow a kitchen garden.
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
- Leo Tolstoy 189
As tater salad (ron white) would say you cant fix stupid. Just be prepared.
Yes I’m serious peasant! Isn’t Madison already a drain on society with its high percentage of welfare recipients? Should the governmet “give” us yet another “freebie”? I don’t thinks so.
Garvin, don’t remember mentioning a condom. Although that is an excellent point. It isn’t only the female’s problem to avoid an unwanted pregnancy, is it? Thanks! (I hope you are male.)
@Wayne,
Sorry, the word Luddite should be substituted for Troglodyte in my message below. The peasant is in fact both, but within this context, Luddite is the appropriate word. Please forgive. Old age and brain rot!
@Wayne,
This little quote should suffice to make the comparison you seek. But only if you know your biology and ecology, and appreciate the context of reality as experienced by the poets. (In case you didn’t know it, you are an animal.)
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive; others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear; others are being slowly devoured from within by rasping parasites; thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst and disease. It must be so. If there is ever a time of plenty this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored.’
Richard Dawkins: River Out of Eden, page131-132.
Additionally, you inquire, ” Why should the health department provide something the rest of the country has to buy at the pharmacy? Are you serious? Cause these folks can’t afford the pills, but possess the animal instincts, of procreation. They don’t get the pill, another baby is brought into the world many of us say, we don’t want to take care of.
Course we overlook the fact that 70% of our economy is based on consumerism. We need these folks to help us with consumption. Sure many sit around like me doing nothing of value most of the day. But by god, we consume! We are the reason many of the merchants, stores and businesses exist. A strict “value added” calculated would show the peasant is a big negative. But if you take all of the negative value individuals out of the system, many businesses would fail.
You see we are continuing the fight which began in the 17th and 18th centuries by the troglodytes. Modern machinery, technology, and newly discovered energy resources, coal and oil, spurred the Industrial revolution. Serfs and peasants were moved off the land into the cities and to factory jobs. But because of the efficiency gains from energy and technology there were no longer enough jobs to meet the needs of the working class. A history of the long decades of the industrial revolution was the subject of many Charles Dickens novels. Read them!
Yup, we now have a global economy. China, India, Mexico, etc. produce things. Americans, we consume things. All our folks who can’t afford birth control pills are having babies, and consuming, keep the economy alive. Go into local grocery stores, fast food joints, dollar general, Freds. Pay attention. Who is doing the buying? Imagine if they were not buying.
If you think this is a sustainable model for the future, vote for one of the politicians who is promoting growth. Growth, economic and energy growth at least is over. There is enormous potential for other kinds of more appropriate growth, but no one seems interested. Now just what would these new opportunities for growth be?
cheers,
LN….what if the condom tears?
The “night before pill” is an “over the counter” therapy administered in a loading dose every day of a child’s life in the home by involved, interested parents who set a high but humble “walk the walk” example of responsible and compassionate values. The “morning after pill” is only “needed” if that does not happen.
“Night Before” pill. What an awesome idea!!!!!!!!! If only-
Please call A Womens Pregnancy Center located on Marion Street for more complete information about the morning after pill. The counselors at the Center are ready to assist any woman and answer any questions confidentially and free of charge. Educate yourself about the morning after pill before making the decision to use it. There are health risks involved! It is not the same as popping an ibuprofen or Tums.
Great. Why dont they provide a ‘Night Before” Pill. Yet another Nanny State example. Remember a Grant is just another word for Taxpayer Dollars -once removed- but earmarked for specific reason.
Why should the health department provide something the rest of the country has to buy at the pharmacy? I’m waiting for the peasant to compare this to mosquito control.
seems if we have money (grants) for planned parenthood here in Madison, and this is a service they condone …then they should have it readily available…right???Would this be a health department service??