I’m enjoying the Ron Paul Iowan surge.
Study: Pharmacies often deny access to morning-after pill
Dec 20, ’11
6:12 PM
From Raw Story:
Research released Monday by the Journal of the American Medical Association — or JAMA — suggests that many women, who are legally able to buy emergency contraception, are being told by pharmacies that they aren’t old enough to buy it without a prescription or that the drug isn’t available at all.
Female research assistants posing as 17-year-olds called every commercial pharmacy in Nashville, Tennessee; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Ohio; Austin, Texas; and Portland, Oregon. They found that 23.7 percent of pharmacies in low-income neighborhoods claimed that women could not obtain the morning-after pill under any circumstances regardless of age. This was only true of 14.6 percent of pharmacies in affluent neighborhoods.
Of the low-income pharmacies where the drug was not “hidden,” half gave the wrong age requirements for purchasing it, almost always indicating that callers would have to be older than legally necessary. In more affluent neighborhoods, pharmacies gave the correct age requirements 62.8 percent of the time.
And the Winner of the Douchebags of the Year Award Goes To
Dec 20, ’11
10:23 AM
These jackasses.
(via Reddit)
A Monkey Dish Washer
Dec 20, ’11
9:03 AM
From Amazing Stuff:
“Pete had been observing me washing the pots for a few days before he took over and began completely and perfectly imitating me!
The monkey on his back is a baby female called Pea. She is not his daughter. Pete had an unfortunate overbite which made him a particularly ugly monkey; he had very little success with the ladies and therefore looked after babies a lot.”
(via Boing Boing)
