(Headline USA) Since last November, a library at the University of Washington has featured a different kind of vending machine. It’s stocked with ibuprofen, pregnancy tests and the morning-after pill.
With some states protecting unborn life and others legalizing the premeditated and intentional ending of human life in the womb, the machines are part of a push by leftist college campuses to engage in the culture war.
There are now 39 universities in 17 states with emergency contraceptive vending machines, and at least 20 more considering them, according to the American Society for Emergency Contraception.
Washington this year became the first U.S. state to set aside money — $200,000 to fund $10,000 grants that colleges can obtain next year through an application process — to expand access to emergency contraceptives at public universities and technical colleges through the automatic dispensers.
The University of Washington’s machine was installed after a student-led campaign.
It offers boxes of generic Plan B for $12.60, about a quarter of what the name-brand versions sell for in stores, and more than 640 have been sold.
The drug is even cheaper in some machines than it is in UW’s, as low as $7 per box.
That’s because it is sold at just above wholesale cost, compared with pharmacy retail prices that might go up to $50.
Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press
