UC-Davis Now Offers Birth Control Out Of Vending Machines

But – but – but – feminists told me that Donald Trump and those EEEEEEEVIL Republicans were going to make it impossible for women to find birth control! They were going to make it illegal for your local Wal-Mart or CVS to stock birth control and you would NEVER be able to get a prescription from your doctor and… and… and… WAR ON WOMEN!!!

Looks like that narrative is about to go the way of the dodo.

According to this, vending machines on the campus of UC-Davis now sell various forms of birth control and other related products, including the morning-after pill. These machines were put in place after an enterprising student figured out that there was a market for such a service –

UC Davis now has a vending machine selling Plan B, pregnancy tests, and condoms pic.twitter.com/fP4X7x9QcD

— Tom Miller (@KCRAMiller) April 22, 2017

UC Davis senior Parteek Singh came up with the idea after a friend was unable to buy the morning after pill in a timely manner.

“They were all out of emergency contraceptives and they weren’t going to get anything until Monday,” Singh said.
The vending machine is open 18 hours a day and is only inaccessible when the building shuts down between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m.
The only other place contraception is sold on campus is in the Student Health and Wellness Center, which is only open during business hours.

University medical staff support the vending machine concept, which is an idea taken from Claremont University Consortium and Pomona College in Southern California.

Now, I realize that some people may feel weird about these machines for one reason or another, and possibly object. But here’s my thinking on this: the government isn’t forcing me to pay for this and I don’t have some insane harpy in my face screaming about how she needs me to buy her birth control. She can go to the machine, put in her own money, and get the products she wants. It’s as simple as buying a Snickers bar and a Diet Coke. By that same token, it’s as simple as someone else choosing not to buy what the machine is selling. Nobody is being forced to spend money on something they don’t want to or that they will not personally benefit from.

Some make think it inappropriate to have birth control being sold in such a public place. And were these machines installed in a high school or other area where underage kids are overwhelmingly present, I would agree. But these are college students. People who should be mature enough to handle sexual situations on their own (I know, I’m giving college kids a lot of credit they may or may not deserve, particularly given how immature and whiny they’ve acted in recent years).

So, yeah. I like this idea. I wouldn’t mind seeing it implemented at other colleges and universities. As long as I’m not forced to participate, it doesn’t bother me.

The fact that this puts a gigantic hole in feminism’s complaint about the EEEEEEEVIL patriarchy denying access to birth control is just an added bonus. Even better that it was that equally EEEEEEEEVIL private sector who figured out a way to get get women their beloved condoms and Plan B.

I honestly don’t know if feminists are going to be happy with this birth control vending machine idea, or upset because it means there’s one less thing for them to complain about. I’ve quit trying to figure them out anyway.