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...pregnant, and you're not ready, financially or psychologically, to have a baby. So the next day you cancel your meetings and head to your doctor's office, where you wait hours for a cursory appointment - after which you're handed a prescription for the morning-after pill. At the local drugstore, the sole pharmacist on duty informs you that he is morally opposed to filling your prescription. The only other pharmacy in town is closed for renovations, and if you don't get the pill soon you might just have to go through the pain and expense...
...sense, Knoxville and his cohort are the 21st century answer to '70s and '80s punks, who created a sort of poison-pill culture, adopting antisocial poses that couldn't be appropriated by the mainstream and practicing self-mutilating rites, like safety-pin piercing, too gross or painful for the masses. In Jackass's case, the connection is more than theoretical: Knoxville first made his Taser video for the skateboarding magazine Big Brother--the skate and punk communities have a long, symbiotic relationship--and many of his show's stunts are straight out of skate-punk culture. The big difference...
Yale students facing unwanted pregnancies will now be able to obtain the controversial abortion pill RU-486 through their student health care plan, while those at Harvard seeking the same treatment await a decision from University Health Services...
Doctors must decide whether the pill should be offered directly through UHS or through another health institution, such as Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston...
...added that UHS also wants to develop a clear education plan regarding RU-486, such as the one that currently accompanies the "morning-after pill...