Searches for emergency contraceptive have spiked ever since RoeVsWade was overturned.
Should I stockpile Plan B?
“There’s nothing wrong with having one, two, or even three doses for personal use,” Steph Black, an abortion activist and writer in Washington, D.C., tells SELF. But Black adds that buying 10-plus doses from your local Walgreens, with plans to distribute them around your community, is likely less useful than you want it to be.
In fact, Black says that planning to stock up on Plan B and act as “some sort of Plan B fairy” is potentially doing more harm than good. There are already community organizers with systems in place to distribute emergency contraception quickly and efficiently, and they likely know more about how to allocate resources than someone who panic-bought a bunch of pills.
If you want a personal stash—a good idea, given that Plan B is most effective within 72 hours, and is evenThere are several reasons for this: One is that, in the wake of theone customer could buy at a time. Another is that buying the pills online ensures that doses remain on local store shelves for those who live nearby and can’t wait on shipping. The third is that buying a store’s entire Plan B supply creates what Black calls a “contraception desert.
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