I’ve read a lot of blogs recently about Plan B. Seems a lot of people are angry, disgusted, dismayed, (fill in the negative adjective here) that it will soon be available without a prescription to those who are *only* 17. I for one am happy and here’s why:
Late one Saturday night, or early one Sunday morning depending on how you want to look at it, I had sex. We used a condom. It broke. My boyfriend was able to sleep I spent the night tossing and turning and finally around 5 am I found a phone book and began calling clinics to listen to their voice mail trying to find one that said they’d be open on a Sunday.
I could have waited until Monday but having already had one unplanned pregnancy I was convinced that I needed that pill as soon as possible. Unfortunately not a single clinic that I could find was open on a Sunday. At 8am I called my best friend in tears. My best friend doesn’t usually wake up until at leat 11 on the weekends and I NEVER call her before noon. So she knew it was important for me to call that early. She went with me to the Emergency Room. Where because I was not an Emergency I waited for about 5 hours. I had to have a pelvic and a pregnancy test and then wait for another 4 hours. Finally they told me I was not yet pregnant but that this hospital did not carry Plan B.
I’d chosen this hospital because it was the Military Medical Center I’d been going to since my father had been stationed in this area. I sobbed for a few minutes and then the doctor got me a prescription for birth control pills. By taking a larger dose of the pill I could get the same protection from pregnancy as with Plan B.
Luckily it worked and I did not get pregnant. If I had I know that I would have had an abortion.
It makes no sense to me that those who are against abortion are also against Plan B. Plan B is not the abortion pill. Plan B does not cause abortion. Plan B protects against Pregnancy.
If this happened today I could go to any pharmacy and get Plan B and I for one am thrilled that 17 year olds will also have that same privlige.
