Should There Be Free Access To The Emergency Contraceptive Pill

Girls may be given free access to the emergency contraceptive pill at their local Auckland pharmacies in a bid to reduce teen pregnancies and abortions.

The medicine can already be sold by many pharmacists without a doctor's prescription, including to girls without parental consent.

Mental Health An Auckland District Health Board committee will consider a staff proposal to make the pill free through community pharmacies in Auckland city.

I do agree that you have a point there. Mental Health It may be true that boys would not always remember to take a male pill but I do think that it would be good if we could somehow make contraception an equal responsibility and not solely the women's job as with the pill and MAP. Perhaps if they could invent the male equivalent of the deproprovera injection and make it available as an option for young men.