Welcome to the Mamamia Wine Bar where you can kick back with a drink of whatever you like and digest a few of today’s biggest talking points:
1. The morning-after pill vending machine
Students at Shippensburg University in central Pennsylvania can get the “morning-after” pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine installed at the request of the student government. The pill is available without a prescription to anyone 17 or older. You cannot get chocolates or drinks from the same machine – we checked!
The Etter Health Center at Shippensburg provides the Plan B One Step emergency contraceptive along with condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests. Handy no? “The machine is in a private room in our health center, and the health center is only accessible by students, In addition, no one can walk in off the street and go into the health center”
2. Occupy Facebook – with boobs!
Facebook have been removing photos of mothers breastfeeding, under its terms of agreement which state ‘users cannot post content that is hateful, pornographic, contains nudity or incites violence’. According to Facebook “On some occasions, breastfeeding photos contain nudity – for example an exposed breast that is not being used for feeding – and therefore violate our terms.”
Australian blogger, Eden Riley has launched a breastfeeding revolution on her Facebook page – Edenland. She says:
This issue runs deeper than breastfeeding photos. It’s questioning the rules of what is and isn’t considered socially acceptable and offensive these days, both on and offline. I have four children – two young boys, and two teenage stepkids. The things I have seen on my teenagers facebook walls have been horrifying, and I am no prude. Crotch shots, cleavage photos of fifteen year old girls, facebook groups with incredibly offensive content. THESE are the things that need policing. Not women feeding their children.
Here’s a gallery of some of the shots that have been sent in to Eden in protest.
3. Forget money, how about sexual favours?
A taxi driver acquitted of raping a drunk 25-year-old female passenger claims cab drivers are frequently offered sexual favours as payment.
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I can understand the appeal of obtaining the Morning After Pill (MAP) from a vending machine. There can sometimes be a lack of privacy in pharmacies and I'm sure many women feel uncomfortable with the multitude of questions they are asked by the pharmacist before being able to purchase the medication. But as a pharmacist I believe it is incredibly important to have some sort of discussion / offering of advice before taking the MAP. There are many cases in which the MAP is contraindicated and pharmacists are trained to screen for this information. Factors such as age, pregnancy status, drug interactions, and other medical conditions all come into play when deciding whether it is safe for a woman to use the MAP. So while I believe every woman has the right to use the MAP, I also believe that the drug must be used safely and appropriately.
Also, congratulations to Rebecca and her family - what a gorgeous baby!
I don't have a problem with people breast feeding in public, go for it, of course. But I do have a problem with the breast feeding movement getting so insane that I felt guilty feeding my baby a bottle of formula in public. That's a whole different can of worms.
It gets scary sometimes bottle feeding doesnt it! A lady made me cry in the supermarket while i was buying formula!
u cant seem to win! If u breastfeed u get some sort of crap and if u bottle feed u get some sort of crap! I wish everyone would feed their babies how ever they want and stop making people feel bad about how they feed them breast or bottle whatever...just feed the kid! wherever and whenever it needs to be fed!
Zoe, as a fellow mum I'm so sad you were made to feel guilty for feeding your baby :(
I'm a pretty passionate breastfeeder but I also really don't see the issue with formula feeding. It's still food, right?