‘Morning After’ pills now offered to students at George Washington University via new vending machine

Faculty college students attending George Washington College (GWU) can now entry “morning after” drugs utilizing a brand new merchandising machine inside the coed heart.

The Washington D.C.-based college is providing college students the flexibility to buy Plan-B, a reputation model for emergency contraception drugs, and different healthcare objects like Tylenol, Advil, and female merchandise, based on The Washington Submit.

Contraceptive drugs shall be out there at a $30 discounted fee, down from the $50 price ticket sometimes present in pharmacies.

The merchandising machine is provided and operated by a non-public firm and was not bought or backed by the college or college students. The faculty beforehand provided emergency contraceptive drugs by means of the coed well being heart however now offers another merchandising machine in a discreet location.

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The hassle was led by Aiza Saeed and Neharika Rao, a sophomore at GWU and a fellow scholar authorities chief, who helped get the merchandising machine put in after curiosity by the coed affiliation president.

“If you wish to attain for emergency contraceptives, CVS — which is [near] the college — could be out [of stock], which could be nerve-racking. So, a diminished worth … is admittedly useful to college students.” Rao instructed Axios.

Pupil authorities referred to as for the mission after Roe v. Wade was overturned final summer season.

“You would get Doritos and Plan B on the similar time,” Saeed, a GWU senior and scholar authorities member, stated to the Submit.

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Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, and now GWU are a part of a rising variety of U.S. faculties providing contraceptive drugs to college students as a part of the Emergency Contraceptive For Each Campus marketing campaign. This system has labored with scholar organizations at greater than 70 campuses throughout 31 states.

Kelly Cleland, the chief director of the American Society for Emergency Contraception, stated that round 32 campuses across the nation have related merchandising machines.

In a Monday e mail, D.C. regional coordinator for College students for Lifetime of America Shaohannah Religion stated the transfer confirmed a scarcity of concern for girls’s well being on campus. She additionally stated the choice to distribute the contraceptive drugs “with the identical readiness as sweet and chips” was each “reckless and disappointing.”

Many scholar facilities throughout the nation supply a wide range of contraceptives. Emergency contraception drugs have been bought over-the-counter within the U.S. since 2014.

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GWU didn’t instantly return Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.