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Providing Plan B on college campuses
College campuses should offer Plan B without question because of how hard it is to obtain “the pill.” According to insidehighered.com, at some college campuses students would have to be female and would have to go through an extensive questionnaire to determine whether or not they took precautions to prevent unprotected sex. There is no need to subject women to this type of interrogation when they are free to do what they please with their bodies.
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Keeping students from being able to obtain contraceptives
By not providing Plan B, health centers on college campuses are not fulfilling their full job as a “health center.” A true health center should work toward supplying the correct medicine for whatever issue any student may have. For example, if the issue at hand is due to unprotected sex, I believe the health center should both have the Plan B pill on hand, and be obligated to distribute it without question.
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