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My guess is that it's just as big a pain in the ass trying to get emergency contraception, and that's under the best circumstances, that it's a weekday and you don't encounter a sexist Jesus freak for a pharmacist who refuses to help you not get pregnant so that he has someone else to picket at the abortion line.
I know women who get frequent bladder infections so they just keep a running prescription with their doctors so they don't have to go through this every time. The equivalent I suppose is keeping a few doses of Plan B around if you should ever need it. I've heard most doctors will prescribe it like this if you explain that you think you might for some reason. Perhaps doctors should even recommend doing so for women who use condoms as their birth control method.
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Maybe it's because I'm Canadian that I have to ask this but... don't you have emergency rooms?
I'm prone to ear infections (get about one a year), and used to suffer from gallstones. When one of those struck, it was off to the local hospital emergency room. Neither of these were all that serious, so I'd be pretty far down on the priority list, but I'd be seen within a couple of hours at most. Finding a 24-hour pharmacy was usually a bigger problem.
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The Canadian system of requiring a prescription for emergency contraception presupposes access to a Canadian emergency room. While not exactly speedy, these are rarely clogged with people who don't have health insurance, thanks to our provincial health plans...
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