Forget Plan B, every kind of birth control there is should be fired out of cannons into the audience of every high school football game, basketball game, pep rally, and, of course, the prom. Graduation, too, just to be safe.

The halftime shows at games should be a team mascot-led explanation of how to use the birth control, for those who haven't had the benefit of sex ed classes. Giant penises would demonstrate how to use a condom, other characters would explain the advantages and disadvantages of the pill, IUD, etc.

There. Do I have to do everything?

This, as in any pharmacy related thread, is where I point out that pharmacists could easily be replaced by trained monkeys. They add zero value to the transaction chain, as a matter if fact in this case, they become a hurdle between you, you doctor, and/or your medicine.
Trained monkeys might be overqualified for the pharmacist job.

PsiChick: What the motherfarking fark? How the hell are these people not fired and\or prosecuted? Do we not have laws protecting those who need medication in the US?

To be quite honest, it beats the hell out of me. I don't understand how a pharmacist can refuse to fill a legitimate prescription if they carry the medication, or refer them to a pharmacy that does.

Looking at TCA 63-10-305 for the State of Tennessee, I imagine this could be viewed as an unethical act, but it takes an act of congress or shenanigans with narcotics to get a Pharmacist in front of their board. They're as hard to get rid of as quack MDs.

keylock71: If they don't want to do their jobs, they should be stripped of their licenses and find more suitable employment which won't put them at odds with their backwards religious views.

Running for republican nomination in the political arena?

About 85 percent of the roughly 750,000 teenage pregnancies in the United States each year are unintentional, the researchers noted.

This reminds me of the ole' "i slipped and fell into her Honey, I swear"

Wellon Dowd: Who could say No Plan B for you! to this face?

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Hell, I'd buy her a case

hinten: This, as in any pharmacy related thread, is where I point out that pharmacists could easily be replaced by trained monkeys. They add zero value to the transaction chain, as a matter if fact in this case, they become a hurdle between you, you doctor, and/or your medicine.
Trained monkeys might be overqualified for the pharmacist job.

Sounds like someone doesn't know what a pharmacist does, or flunked their entrance exam to Pharmacy Tech school.

0/10 troll. Should have included something about homeopathy and the big pharma conspiracy

/hospital - expecially ER pharmacists - are scary farking smart. The only woman I know who could rattle off every detail about propofol metabolism and action while pushing it.

hinten: This, as in any pharmacy related thread, is where I point out that pharmacists could easily be replaced by trained monkeys. They add zero value to the transaction chain, as a matter if fact in this case, they become a hurdle between you, you doctor, and/or your medicine.
Trained monkeys might be overqualified for the pharmacist job.

But then there'll be a lack of trained monkeys for the IT field, driving up demand.

theorellior: thismomentinblackhistory: I don't think I would have clicked had this not been a Yahoo! article. Their comments always bring the lulz.

Actually, there was a surprisingly low amount of derp in there. People might just be getting fed up with Godbotherers getting in their business.

Yahoo! commenters = RON PAUL!!! supporters

They generally hate anything to do with Obama and liberals but from what I've seen, they also equally hate organized religion, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich.

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"Your mouth can't get pregnant."

I'd tap her mouth so hard she'd get knocked up with twins.

What's so bad about that? Good for the pharmacists! We are in the middle of a population crisis. With the human race thinning out so severely, we need to repopulate and fast. If we had maybe 7 billion or so individuals this might seem more horrible. What is stopping these girls from having a child, husband or not? A woman's place is at home, rearing a family anyway. Why put it off? Not to mention contraception is expressly forbidden in the Bible. Since every single person on Earth is Christian and knows the one true interpretation of God's good book, these girls should know better. Thank God these brave pharmacists are fighting the good fight for the strength and purity of our theocratic nation. God Bless Control America!

I went into a pharmacy with my 'then' g/f to get the morning after pill. We were in our mid-20's at the time, but still the pharmacist gave her a stink eye, and when he tried to give me one I gave him one of most intense 1000yard menacing looks that made him bow his head and stare at the floor when handing over the goods.
/of course her and I made good use of that pill for the rest of the day

I called a pharmacy right around the time plan b became over the counter and was told very rudely that they don't give out pills to people who just ask for them. But I live in Oklahoma, not sure what else I expected to happen.

cman: This wouldnt be a problem if you would only put it up her pooper


When I was younger, I heard you stick it up the vag.

Dirtybird971: About 85 percent of the roughly 750,000 teenage pregnancies in the United States each year are unintentional, the researchers noted.

This reminds me of the ole' "i slipped and fell into her Honey, I swear"

the_vegetarian_cannibal: Dirtybird971: About 85 percent of the roughly 750,000 teenage pregnancies in the United States each year are unintentional, the researchers noted.

This reminds me of the ole' "i slipped and fell into her Honey, I swear"

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Be careful posting that. I had mine deleted the other day.

BurnShrike: the_vegetarian_cannibal: Dirtybird971: About 85 percent of the roughly 750,000 teenage pregnancies in the United States each year are unintentional, the researchers noted.

This reminds me of the ole' "i slipped and fell into her Honey, I swear"

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Be careful posting that. I had mine deleted the other day.

That's pretty harsh, Burn.

What's it like living with a deleted penis?

BronyMedic: BurnShrike: Be careful posting that. I had mine deleted the other day.

That's pretty harsh, Burn.

What's it like living with a deleted penis?

Let's just say it makes it much more likely to get sand in my vagina.

Kid Lester: Sybarite: I prefer to think of it as the Maureen McGovern pill.

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damn succubus always wanting my tree fitty.

keylock71: If they don't want to do their jobs, they should be stripped of their licenses and find more suitable employment which won't put them at odds with their backwards religious views.

Went to grad school in the Pharmacy department building of my university. The pharmacy students have about half a dozen religious organizations to affiliate themselves with. Refusal to give medications like this is part of an organized campaign by right-wing Christian elements of the pharmacist community. They receive specialized training, they receive a specialized degree, they receive job placement assistance, much like medical doctors, only with a much smaller community.

Personally, I found their scientific intelligence, critical thinking versus religious zealotry ratios quite disturbing for people that were going to be handing out potentially dangerous medication.

BurnShrike: hinten: This, as in any pharmacy related thread, is where I point out that pharmacists could easily be replaced by trained monkeys. They add zero value to the transaction chain, as a matter if fact in this case, they become a hurdle between you, you doctor, and/or your medicine.
Trained monkeys might be overqualified for the pharmacist job.

But then there'll be a lack of trained monkeys for the IT field, driving up demand.

You're comparing dispensing the right number and amount of pills to your average IT worker? Even the lowest guys on the totem pole at the place I work use their brain more in an hour than a pharmacist (or pharm technician) would all week.

Why does it take 15 minutes to count out 15 pills and put them in a bottle? Wouldn't it be easier to let a machine handle this difficult task?

BronyMedic: /hospital - expecially ER pharmacists - are scary farking smart. The only woman I know who could rattle off every detail about propofol metabolism and action while pushing it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH*gassssspppp*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

No they aren't. You know one anomaly.

hosalabad: BronyMedic: /hospital - expecially ER pharmacists - are scary farking smart. The only woman I know who could rattle off every detail about propofol metabolism and action while pushing it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH*gassssspppp*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

No they aren't. You know one anomaly.

CrazyCracka420: BurnShrike: hinten: This, as in any pharmacy related thread, is where I point out that pharmacists could easily be replaced by trained monkeys. They add zero value to the transaction chain, as a matter if fact in this case, they become a hurdle between you, you doctor, and/or your medicine.
Trained monkeys might be overqualified for the pharmacist job.

But then there'll be a lack of trained monkeys for the IT field, driving up demand.

You're comparing dispensing the right number and amount of pills to your average IT worker? Even the lowest guys on the totem pole at the place I work use their brain more in an hour than a pharmacist (or pharm technician) would all week.

Why does it take 15 minutes to count out 15 pills and put them in a bottle? Wouldn't it be easier to let a machine handle this difficult task?

One guess on how I know you people have no clue what a Pharmacist does beyond what the one who works in Walgreens tells you when they hand you your prescription.

lennavan: Cancer isn't a separate entity. It's a part of you. Is your heart or kidney a living organism?

Well, neither is an embryo, or a fetus up to a point. You cannot separate it, or it will die.

Cancer is genetically identical to the host organism; your embryo is not.

All this over the phone? Bad study.

FirstNationalBastard

I see no problem with this, as long as the pharmacies are consistent and refuse to sell cancer drugs to anyone because those bastards with cancer are trying to kill a living, growing organism that's in their body.


So you're classifying pregnancy as disease?

Are you one of those that says we shouldn't treat fat people because they are directly responsible for being fat by overeating, or smokers should not be treated because they gave themselves cancer by smoking? you know, to keep health care costs low.

SphericalTime: Aarontology: I sure wish I could refuse to do my job and lie to clients without getting fired.

Isn't that one of the new Republican Party platforms? "Vote for us if you want to refuse to do your job and lie to clients without being fired!"

oh I thought it was something about the prior post and putting it in a pooper
apologies, my bad

I want to know why women under 17 need a prescription to buy it. If it was my daughter I would buy it for her.

Smelly Pirate Hooker: Forget Plan B, every kind of birth control there is should be fired out of cannons into the audience of every high school football game, basketball game, pep rally, and, of course, the prom. Graduation, too, just to be safe.

The halftime shows at games should be a team mascot-led explanation of how to use the birth control, for those who haven't had the benefit of sex ed classes. Giant penises would demonstrate how to use a condom, other characters would explain the advantages and disadvantages of the pill, IUD, etc.

There. Do I have to do everything?

A gram is better than a damn

imgod2u: MBooda: I work in a scientific office.

Where the hell are all these researchers who could pass for 17-year-old girls?

/grumble

Perhaps if your field of research were in teen pregnancy.....

/Does any college offer such a curriculum?

Sheeet, that was my minor!

BronyMedic: To be quite honest, it beats the hell out of me. I don't understand how a pharmacist can refuse to fill a legitimate prescription if they carry the medication, or refer them to a pharmacy that does.

Pharmacists are actually more than simple pill fillers -- they are also nominally tasked with drug interactions and appropriateness of prescriptions for a given patient. Often, they are far more versed in potential drug interactions and a patient's full prescription load than the treating physician is. This doesn't excuse them here, but is a reason why a pharmacist may be entirely justified in refusing to fill a particular script.

imgod2u: MBooda: I work in a scientific office.

Where the hell are all these researchers who could pass for 17-year-old girls?

/grumble

Perhaps if your field of research were in teen pregnancy.....

/Does any college offer such a curriculum?

yes, called Sociology

Aarontology: Ten bucks says that those who refuse the pill or condoms also complain about teenage mothers and abortion and welfare for the kids too.

That's precisely my feeling about this. I don't care what you personally celebrate, but if your job is to sell drugs SELL PEOPLE WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR. Period.

You know how some states have safe harbor laws where people can drop unwanted kids off at a safe place (like a police station) and not be prosecuted for abandonment? Maybe these pharmacists should be put on the safe harbor "safe site" list. All those people they refused to sell pills to can just drop their infants off at the pharmacists' houses, no questions asked, 9 months later. I mean, I hear pharmacists make great money anyway...

Dirtybird971: About 85 percent of the roughly 750,000 teenage pregnancies in the United States each year are unintentional, the researchers noted.
This reminds me of the ole' "i slipped and fell into her Honey, I swear"

If you go to England, you can "fall pregnant." I"m staying the hell away from there.

I thought the proportion of red states was larger than 20%,

Anyway, here is the PDF of the study (new window).

Wellon Dowd: Who could say No Plan B for you! to this face?

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That she needs a plan B pill signals that she likes to have a good time...


/I'm ashamed

impaler: A machine won't know about drug interactions.

Unless that machine is a computer hooked up to a database. In which case it could do it in a few milliseconds.

And those machines cost around two million dollars, break down pretty often, and require qualified pharmacists to restock them. Other than that, totally comparable.

BronyMedic: hinten: This, as in any pharmacy related thread, is where I point out that pharmacists could easily be replaced by trained monkeys. They add zero value to the transaction chain, as a matter if fact in this case, they become a hurdle between you, you doctor, and/or your medicine.
Trained monkeys might be overqualified for the pharmacist job.

Sounds like someone doesn't know what a pharmacist does, or flunked their entrance exam to Pharmacy Tech school.

0/10 troll. Should have included something about homeopathy and the big pharma conspiracy

/hospital - expecially ER pharmacists - are scary farking smart. The only woman I know who could rattle off every detail about propofol metabolism and action while pushing it.

And, as always after I post my pharmacist-trained monkey post, there will be at least one Farker that defends this shiatty, useless job. Usually it is a Farker whose father happens to be a pharmacist but this time we might have found someone who is doing the trained monkey's job.
Tell me about how you saved lifes today because only you can read the terrible handwriting of this one doctor or how only you were able to see the conflict between the two prescribed medicine. Because we would all love to hear about you are adding to the value chain.

Disintermediation biatches.

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"Your mouth can't get pregnant."

And the corollary: Spit don't make babies.