And for those people who aren’t like the couple below… Canada has decided to allow the “morning-after pill” to be sold over the counter. This just over a week after a similar move was blocked in the U.S. due to lobbying by the pro-life groups who like to slander any kind of birth control besides abstinence.
I’m in favour of the Canadian move. Yes, better birth control education is essential. But there’s got to be something wrong with taking away options for women who are raped, or people whose method of birth control doesn’t work (e.g. a condom breaking), or simply for people who are too stupid to be having kids anyway. A fifteen-year-old who can’t figure out how to use a condom should not be having a child. The medical evidence says that this pill is safe enough to be sold OTC, so the politics should recognize that and not put up unnecessary roadblocks.