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Gloria Oladipo in New York

George Washington University installs emergency contraception vending machine

George Washington University now has a vending machine that provides morning-after pills.
George Washington University now has a vending machine that provides morning-after pills. Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images

A vending machine that provides emergency contraception has been installed at a Washington DC university, as colleges contend with how to protect reproductive rights on campus.

Students at George Washington University successfully obtained the vending machine dispensing morning-after pills following concerns in the wake of the supreme court’s ruling last summer to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision that had ushered in the constitutional right to an abortion.

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