Mums saying NO to morning after pill shame

I didn’t have to pay but I had to take it in front of them, and answer questions.

A few years ago, Superdrug told me I would have to pay if I took it away with me, but if I took it in a side room in the branch with a pharmacist it was free.

I’ve needed it multiple times over the last 16 years and never had an issue. Boots own brand was £12 last year when I used it. The Ella One was £35 but I’d been away, couldn’t get to a pharmacy and needed the extended time frame.

I was treated like a naughty child when I needed the morning after pill in the past, anything that lets girl and women know it is an option is a good thing.

Is it free for any groups in England? The cost could be a significant barrier for younger women (thinking over 16 but still at school), students, and those on very low incomes.

I got it free from a local pharmacy when ds was about 10 weeks old. Pharmacist was absolutely lovely, took me into a side room to chat and was so much help when I was feeling a bit crap.

I really don’t understand why it is not free. It’s cost the NHS approx £1500 for an uncomplicated birth without problems, this excludes antenatal care and does not even begin to consider the costs to the government of being up a child (health care and education).

Access to contraception should be much easier. We have come a long way from the 60s when my Mum was only prescribed the pill when she proved she was getting married and it was not something that people discussed but now we seem to be going backwards.

Should've gone to Tesco's.

meagain The morning after pill is free in some pharmacies if you ask but you have to answer some questions because it's not you as an individual taking it (as you are when buying it) it's you being supplied and prescribed it as a PGD medication (so responsibility lies with the pharmacist).

Read the link - disgusting comments from boots

Mine was £20 + some years ago
Maybe rules have changed or free on prescription?

When I was at Uni (age 24) my boyfriend and I had sex and the condom came off. I went to see the campus doctor and she said something about having unprotected sex. I said I don’t have unprotected sex (we always used condoms - for 3 and a half years) she looked like a smacked arse and said “well you obviously do.”
I was furious and I still wish I’d complained about her.

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Boots pricing row

For free? No - I paid at least 20 pounds. Punitive pricing I thought.

I'm glad I've never had an issue. Boots and Tesco have given it to me for free, just a few short and obvious questions and I got what I needed.

A pharmacist almost helped me out of the hell that was my life by talking to me about the pill. Not always bad.

I think it is good people are sharing experiences.

One recently Woman was refused on religious grounds told to go to a different pharmacy I think that's appalling.

I think if you become a gp or pharmacist etc you should be required to cover all aspects of health.

Did boots resolve the issue that they were charging twice the price it should have been because when it was agreed to sell it over the counter, the govt/whoever wanted to put women off /not see it as an easy option?

This is the reason you have to go and have that lovely conversation with the pharmacist, again it was to put blocks in the process, make women feel like did they really want to go through that.

These things were explicit, I don't know if they ever got changed?

When I got it, I thought that it was a missed opportunity to have some signposting about women's aid /rape crisis.

I think that omission is quite telling. They give you a leaflet it would be v easy to include that, but, when I went few years back, nothing.