Amazon limits how many Plan B pills you can buy as demand surges

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNBC

Amazon has limited sales of emergency contraceptive pills as demand spikes following last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the constitutional right to have an abortion. The company has placed a temporary quantity limit of three units per week on emergency contraceptive pills, Amazon confirmed to CNBC. A review of emergency contraceptive pills sold on Amazon showed varying quantity limits.

A listing for Plan B, a popular brand of the drug Levonorgestrel, showed purchases were capped at three products per shopper. Meanwhile, one listing for a generic version of the drug, called My Choice, allowed users to purchase up to 30 units. Amazon is the latest retailer to place limits on purchases of the pills. CVS said Monday it was temporarily capping purchases of Plan B pills. The company has since removed those restrictions, saying demand has returned to normal levels.

Walmart said many of the chain’s products have online purchase limits that can change “during times of fluctuating demand.” Walgreens said purchases of emergency contraceptive pills were not being limited. Emergency contraceptive pills, often referred to as “morning after pills” and sold under the Plan B brand, can be purchased over-the-counter and without an ID or prescription.

They typically work by stopping the release of an egg from the ovaries, preventing a sperm from fertilizing an egg, or, if fertilization has already occurred, stopping a fertilized egg from attaching to the womb. They’re designed to be taken up to three days after unprotected sex. Morning-after contraception pills are distinct from abortion pills, which require a prescription and can be used in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy to terminate it.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/28/amazon-limits-plan-b-pill-purchases-as-demand-surges.html

[LiberalFighter]

1. I would suggest the following

1) Have mother order.
2) Have other female relatives not needing order it. Even male relatives.
3) Have elderly female co-worker order it.

[COL Mustard]

6. Are there women's centers that could use them?

If someone were to order them? Asking for a friend.

[3Hotdogs]

2. Does it have a shelf life?

[Karma13612]

3. I would say yes.

That’s usually the case with drugs.

I certainly wouldn’t want to take a chance if it’s potency declined. And I hope that the drug companies are careful and HONEST with customers about it. IF the drug does not lose potency, they should be honest about that as well.

Lastly, I would hope that drug companies would do studies to see the safety of taking this pill maybe once or twice per week—-PERMANENTLY.

It could be a work around for those gals who can’t get access easily to actual Oral contraceptive pills which require a prescription.

Can’t believe we are back to backroom, back-alley, underground railroad kinda stuff again.

Disgraceful.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. "safety of taking this pill maybe once or twice per week---PERMANENTLY. "

I'm wondering why THESE things are completely missing out of the conversation -

[COL Mustard]

7. You know...cause us guys aren't responsible....

JK, of course!!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Parthenogenesis

[Karma13612]

22. They are not as reliable

And I know that some gentlemen dislike them, saying they can’t get the full sensual experience with them.

[kimmylavin]

27. Who fucking cares?

Any man who refuses to wear a condom because it won't feel as good for HIM - especially now - is no "gentleman."

And they're 98% reliable, if used correctly.
Almost 100%, if used in tandem with another form of birth control.

For a brilliant thread on the part men play in all of this, enjoy:

Link to tweet

It's a few years old, but more relevant than ever.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

8. Maybe because too many men WON'T use them ???

And they are NOT foolproof.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. "And they are NOT foolproof."

They get tested, with defect action levels of (IIRC) no more than 2 leakers per gross.

Love the excuses to put it all on a woman as if all these medications are somehow automatically "100% fullproof".

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

11. I wasn't trying to "put it all on a woman"

rather I was remarking on men I know who have stated emphatically that they WILL NOT wear one. "It reduces my sensitivity." "It takes too long." "By the time I get in on, I'm not as aroused." "It interrupts the moment."

Another thing I meant by not foolproof, is that STDs are still transmissable.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. And thus this illustrates the problem

Women on any of these medications, whether birth control pills (that are daily) ingesting hormones (with some of them placebo as regulation), to these specific meds that would either keep an egg from implanting or triggering shedding of any eggs that did, etc., puts EVERYTHING on HER as if it's like she is taking a sugar pill, and not something that is impacting her endocrine system.

Time for some of them to "zip it up".

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

13. Did you ever see Monty Python's "Meaning of Life" ?

There is a scene where hundreds of children (we're supposed to think they are all brothers and sisters) are streaming out of one house, singing "Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great. If a sperm gets wasted, God gets quite irate."

[BumRushDaShow]

14. I am a Monty Python fan

but that doesn't negate the fact that we're talking about "sharing" responsibility vs all for the pleasure of one.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

17. Yes, and I concur.

It was just a funny thought that popped into my mind. I was raised a Catholic, which is who the scene was skewering. My dad used to say that the only place the rhythm method works is on the dance floor.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Well this might work too

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. I think user error is more of a problem than leakers

One of the mainly problems with not having comprehensive, age appropriate, FACT BASED sex education. They put them on wrong, they don't hold onto them until they pull out or worst of all, think they can have bareback sex for a few thrusts and then just put them on when they're ready to ejaculate.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. I expect so

and the whole societal paternal mindset has meant a lot of time and money spent on female contraceptives and hormone pills and little or none of that for men.



(yes feminist hat briefly put on )

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. They developed and tested a male BC pill

But the men taking them complained about the side effects so it was never put on the market.

[BumRushDaShow]

26. And there you have it

So inconvenient!!!!!111!!1!1!!

[TexasBushwhacker]

29. Yeah, as if women's hormonal birth control has zero side effects n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

4. About 4 years after manufacture

https://autos.yahoo.com/does-plan-b-expire-yes-204345913.html

(would still need to check the date printed on the package as the actual stock will vary regarding how long it had been in the pharmacy before being sold)

[COL Mustard]

15. And in reality, in the heat of the moment....

No guy, myself included, is going to check the expiration date on a box of rubbers. Personally I hate the damn things but they do work.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. The cheap ones can get dry rot frequently

but if stored correctly, that problem can be mitigated. Which would be the same issue for any meds - stored in the wrong conditions and that can affect the actual efficacy regardless of the printed expiration date.

[Totally Tunsie]

16. My Choice?

A listing for Plan B, a popular brand of the drug Levonorgestrel, showed purchases were capped at three products per shopper. Meanwhile, one listing for a generic version of the drug, called My Choice, allowed users to purchase up to 30 units.

Has Mike Lindell found his new niche? Maybe that's why one can buy 30 units.

[NJCher]

23. Here's what Biden should do

Mandate massive production under the Defense Production Act.

Load up every Lockheed C5 Super Galaxy we own and dump these pills on every state that has restricted abortion rights.

[tirebiter]

28. Business should see how the market is and produce accordingly.

[halfulglas]

24. Okay, what we have to do is all guys born on odd number days in states allowing no abortion

Mandated to undergo reversible vasectomies. (Is that a thing? I don't know.) See how they like somebody taking over your fertility. People who are aghast at mandated vaccinations or mandated masks want to mandate carrying a pregnancy to term. Even before Roe we didn't have bounty hunters waiting to question miscarriages and making you feel like a criminal.