Pennsylvania University Puts “Plan B” In A Vending Machine [Video]

Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania has a new vending machine on campus. It dispenses condoms, pregnancy tests and Plan B morning after pills. The machines were installed in the Etter Health Center on campus after a survey of students found that 85% of them supported putting in the machines.

Peter Gigliotti, the university’s executive director for communications and marketing told Fox News,

“We value student input on matters that directly pertain to their health and safety so these results were an important part of the decision-making process. We are not the first one to make this available so this is not unique to us or to public higher education. This decision was also made in consultation with our medical staff.”

Plan B is available without a prescription to anyone 17 or older anywhere in the United States. Gigliotti says that all of the University’s student fit that criteria. He also said the machine is in a private room in the University’s health center and can only be accessed by current students.

“Any student who wants to discuss Plan B may do so at any time. In addition, medical information is provided with the Plan B for purchasers to read before its use.”

Father David Hillier, pastor of Our Lady of the Visitation Roman Catholic Church and Shippensburg’s campus minister, is vehemently opposed to making the contraceptive available on the campus. He told Fox News,

“We have and will continue to work to see the decision of this state university reconsidered and overturned,”

While it is presented that 85% of students support the vending machines, the number may actually be higher because even more students support making the pill available just maybe not in the specific venue it is currently available in.

Do you think that the University should be allowing students to buy contraception in a vending machine?

Watch an amateur newscaster discuss the issue!