NHS makes morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/29/nhs-makes-morning-after-pill-available-for-free-across-pharmacies-in-england
Posted by ConsciousStop
NHS makes morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/29/nhs-makes-morning-after-pill-available-for-free-across-pharmacies-in-england
Posted by ConsciousStop
9 Comments
This is huge news. It should be the main headline of the week.
As normal people with consciences rejoice at this news, we should keep in mind that right-wing “pro-life” Christian nationalists in the United States want to ban the morning-after pill (like many other contraceptives, including the Pill and IUDs) because they claim it’s an “abortifacient.” (The real reason, of course, is that they don’t want women to be able to control their own reproductive systems.)
Keep in mind also that those same far-right Christian nationalists are providing major funds and infrastructure support to Nigel Farage and Reform, who are “coincidentally” taking a more and more hardline position against reproductive choice.
It’s always been free, I can remember 45 years ago girls popping to the clinic to get the morning after pill when a Johnny split on them or they didn’t use one at all.
This is the first bit of good news I’ve seen this week.
Good!
I always the found the fact they charged so strange. It was between £30-£50 depending on what you got.
£30-£50 is the cost between a woman not having the money available and a children being raised in a home that didn’t plan for them / will struggle or a woman having the money available to make the right choice for her in her unique circumstances.
Now make it so that pharmacists don’t have the right to refuse to dispense this medicine due to their own personal beliefs. Women and girls are being denied this even with prescriptions from doctors by pharmacists who believe their own moral code is more important than someone’s medical needs.
It’s incredibly unpleasant and really awful if you’re a girl or woman without the ability to travel to another pharmacy to get this dispensed. It’s also incredibly judgemental and could put people off from even going elsewhere for it.
And yes, this does happen and more frequently than it should.
I didn’t have to pay for mine when I got one, has this been a slow rollout or something?
Hopefully this will mean kids will have parents that actually wants them.
It’s great but you can still be refused service from a pharmacist due to religious reasons.
My friend was denied at a Boots pharmacy, there was nobody else on shift to serve her, when she complained she was gaslit by the company stating “she misread the situation”
Religion has no place in healthcare.