In a first, Washington state will begin offering taxpayer-funded grants to universities to set up vending machines with emergency contraception pills, including types that may cause early abortions.
The Gateway Pundit reports state Democrat leaders allocated $200,000 for the campus vending machines, and the money will be available to universities in the form of $10,000 grants starting next year.
Dozens of college campuses already have birth control vending machines, but Washington state is believed to be the first to use taxpayers’ money to encourage more.
The vending machines typically include pregnancy tests, over-the-counter pain medication, condoms and Plan B. Also known as the “morning after” pill, the emergency contraception drug can be taken up to three days after sex and may cause an early abortion.
Plan B’s own packaging warns that the drug may destroy a newly conceived human being: “This product works mainly by preventing ovulation (egg release). It may also prevent fertilization of a released egg (joining of sperm and egg) or attachment of a fertilized egg to the uterus (implantation).”
A fertilized egg is a human embryo – a unique, living human being at its earliest stage of life – and preventing implantation would cause death.
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Kelly Cleland, executive director of the American Society for Emergency Contraception, told the Seattle Times that at least 37 campuses in 17 states already have vending machines that sell contraception, but the demand has grown since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Cleland said the pills typically cost $12 to $13.
According to the newspaper, the University of Washington recently installed a Plan B vending machine and sold more than 600 boxes within the first three months.
A number of colleges and universities sell contraception drugs via vending machine. Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania appears to have been the first in 2013, after receiving approval from the Obama administration in 2013.
There is evidence that several birth control drugs and devices, including the IUD and Ella, may cause an abortion very early in pregnancy. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women’s Health basically admitted as much on its website in 2014: If “fertilization does occur, the IUD keeps the fertilized egg from implanting in the lining of the uterus.” A fertilized egg is already a living human being with his/her own unique DNA.
Most pro-life advocates support contraception that prevents pregnancy. Their opposition is to drugs and devices labeled contraception that may kill unborn babies at the earliest stage of pregnancy, such as Plan B and Ella.
