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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You can order from Costco online with no prescription or membership. You're welcome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Do they deliver to Asia?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's called plan B in the US? We call it "the morning-after pill" where I live. I think it's a bit more self-explanatory.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I raise you "anti-baby-pill" from Germany.

Edit: anti-baby-pill refers to contraceptive pill.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really? That's a bit too… intense. I propose "postpone-baby-pill" or "baby-no-thanks-pill".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's pretty straightforward. I raise "baby-not-today-pill".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

We could call it Fetuscide, to trigger the fuck out of fundies and other retrogrades

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've always heard that for the normal pill, not the morning-after one.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's also referred to as the morning after pill. IIRC Plan-B was a brand name.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Back in my day we called it RU-486. Always reminded me of a Russian computerized submarine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

R U 4 86ing this baby out your womb?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That is for an abortion, not for preventing a pregnancy from occurring. The difference is insanely and stupidly important for religious fascists.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

The difference is insanely and stupidly important for religious fascists

For now. If those fucks have their way, it won't be too long before plan b is just abortion by another name, followed by contraception.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Mifepristone can also be used as an emergency contraceptive too though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

You're right. I had been mistaken for decades.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Six dollars?

Why have I been paying three hundred for them?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (5 children)

You know, theoretically, it is possible to order the raw pharmaceutical ingredients to make Plan B, in bulk, directly from overseas manufacturers who don't ask too many questions. For three hundred you could order enough raw ingredients to make enough doses that you could measurably alter the birth rate of a small nation state.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For three hundred you could order enough raw ingredients to make enough doses that you could measurably alter the birth rate of a small nation state.

Still a more affordable hobby than Warhammer 40k 🤷

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but you can't play war games with the raw ingredients in plan-b.

Besides, if you spend enough on WH40k, you don't need plan-b

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you know those ingredients? For science.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

A standard dose for Plan B is 1.5 mg levonorgestrel, CAS #797-63-7.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This comment is some lemmy gold lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's in the water Batman! It's in the water!!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, I didn't mean it quite that way. But if you want to compound your own Plan B, I looked into it once, and for a few hundred dollars you could make thousands of doses. And the raw active ingredients, if vacuum sealed and stored in a freezer, will last nearly indefinitely.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Sooo... what kind of wood do you normally science?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Veneer-based mass timber elements!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that what has happened to Japan?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

No Japan just likes fax machines more than children, which is a completely valid point of view.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Your mistake is not buying them in bulk.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

It's funny because my good insurance (RIP) paid for my sterilization, all but $6. Seems like that's the going rate for fuckin off pregnancy

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

~~Sadly this is no longer true of Costco where I live. You now need a membership to use their pharmacy in at least my part of the US.~~

Edit: See below, sounds like I was wrong

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Most front end employees do not know that federal regulations supersede their authority. Politely ask to see a manager.

Pharmacies are regulated by the FDA (for now anyway. Who knows what things will look like a month from now) and pharmacies cannot bar customers from using their services.

Edit: Here is the official Costco policy

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh shit, thank you for letting me know. I'll look into this more closely and start advising people of this info. I appreciate it!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You're welcome! Just remember to be polite.

Costco pays better than most retailers but they still aren't paid to be lawyers. They are likely not aware of the regulation or even their corporate policies on who gets waved through.

Iirc alcohol are the same, though often controlled at the state level so maybe different between states. Some states have regulations on warehouse memberships not being required for purchases.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

This. California is one of them. You cant put alcohol behind a paid membership.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The same is also true for liquor, though it's a state agency that enforces the laws.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In New York, it’s just on the store shelf. They sell it at target. Although, you do need to have an employee unlock it for you.

I was also surprised at how cheap it is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I picked up abortion pills a few times doing deliveries in a really conservative area in the U.S. Mildly interesting getting a lot of weird looks because its always locked down or the head pharmacist had to give the okay

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you talking about plan B type pills? They are not an abortifacient. Common misconception (important to correct though).

Per FDA link:

Q. Is Plan B One-Step an abortifacient (causing abortion)?

A. No. Plan B One-Step will not work if a person is already pregnant, meaning it will not affect an existing pregnancy. Plan B One-Step prevents pregnancy by acting on ovulation, which occurs well before implantation. Evidence does not support that the drug affects implantation or maintenance of a pregnancy after implantation, therefore it does not terminate a pregnancy.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Last time I went to a Costco pharmacy I had to be escorted there and back.

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