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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Politics
Victoria Bekiempis

Rightwing disinformation on Plan B vending machines at colleges ‘harmful to young lives’

cartons of the morning after pill in a vending machine
At least 39 colleges have installed vending machines for emergency contraception amid post-Roe abortion restrictions. Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images

The headlines warned parents of an unspeakable horror on college campuses – something even more dangerous to their precious children than left-leaning curricula. “Abortion vending machines are appearing on college campuses,” one stated. “Abortions pills available by vending machine at 39 US colleges,” said another.

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life America, wrote that there was a “recent obsession with putting Plan B vending machines on college and university campuses as some kind of miracle drug in a post-Roe America”.

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