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College Birth Control: Buy Plan B in Vending Machines
College health care centers across the country have doctors or nurse practitioners on staff that can prescribe and distribute birth control pills to students, but one university is making headlines for allowing students to buy Plan B in a vending machine.
Plan B, emergency contraception also known as the morning after pill, may prevent pregnancy if taken soon after unprotected sex. Plan B contraceptives have been politically controversial as protesters have compared the drug to abortion, but in 2009 the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that 17-year-olds could purchase morning after pills without a doctor
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Melissa Rhone earned her Bachelor of Music in Education from the University of Tampa. She resides in the Tampa Bay area and enjoys writing about college, pop culture, and epilepsy awareness.