The Obama administration has approved a request by a college in
Pennsylvania to sell the Plan B drug through a vending machine. The Food
and Drug Administration will let Shippensburg University continue to
dispense the morning after pill via a machine that it installed in the
school nurse’s office.
As The Hill reports, the FDA decided not to intervene following a “politically motivated uproar” over the vending machine.
FDA looked at publicly available information about
Shippenburg State’s vending program and spoke with university and campus
health officials and decided not to take any regulatory actions, the
FDA said.
Students at the university can obtain Plan B without waiting for an appointment by depositing $25 in the machine.
The Etter Health Center at Shippensburg, which has 8,3000 students,
sells the drug along with condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests.
College spokesman Peter Gigliotti said in comments to AP that the drug
is available to anyone over the age of 17 without a prescription. The
machine was installed after the student government association requested
it.
“The machine is in a private room in our health center, and the
health center is only accessible by students,” Gigliotti said in a
statement. “In addition, no one can walk in off the street and go into
the health center. Students proceed to a check-in desk located in the
lobby and after checking in are granted access to the treatment area.”
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