Juno Lied: Pregnancy Tests Aren’t Plan B, People
Posted by: Amelia McDonell-Parry
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sex
7:30AM, Friday July 11th 2008
Storytime! Over at Feministing’s newly relaunched site, a teenage user on their new community board recounts a story of trying to buy a pregnancy test with her best friend at a drug store and being refused because of her age. When the teen presents the fact that she legally has the right to buy a pregnancy test despite being “underage”, the drugstore teller tells her she shouldn’t be having sex in the first place. After much back and forth the teens were finally able to procure the test, but only after a teller in his late-teens allowed them. This is why a person’s personal beliefs on sexual activity shouldn’t be a factor when they’re on the job. Oh and the teen wasn’t pregnant in the end, thank goodness. [Feministing]
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rachelkramerbussel
wrote on July 11 2008 @ 08:36 am: [report]
That’s horrible! I remember being 17 and paranoid and buying a pregnancy test. It was bad enough, and girls/women will probably always feel like clerks or whoever are looking at them funny, but to have someone say those things - they should be fired! Or find a job where they can keep their judgmentalism to themself.
Elle
wrote on July 12 2008 @ 03:06 pm: [report]
Pregnancy tests are so expensive! Planned Parenthood offers free pregnancy tests to any girl under 18 I believe.
LovesIt
wrote on July 14 2008 @ 07:04 am: [report]
Ugh…. counter clerk judgment. I still feel weird buying certain products and taking them up to gramps at the counter.
Annika Harris
wrote on July 14 2008 @ 09:15 am: [report]
My sister had a similar experience, but with condoms. You’d think the fact that a teen was mature enough to take responsibility would eliminate the “you’re too young stares or comments.”
Budlight Lime Gal
wrote on July 23 2008 @ 08:57 am: [report]
Buying a prego test in the 1st place is horrifying not matter what your age, but for someone to refuse one to you based on age? I don’t find that appropriate.
ClatieK
wrote on July 28 2008 @ 07:26 pm: [report]
Good gracious, that is nuts! Like refusing her the test was going to un-sex her. Yeesh.
Morgan
wrote on August 31 2008 @ 02:08 pm: [report]
Frankly, taking a job like a pharmacist and then refusing to do part of the job because of personal beliefs is reprehensible.
It’s like a fireman refusing to put out a fire in a building inhabited primarily by black people because he’s a white supremacist. If that actually happened, we’d all think that person was a reprehensible a-hole. Why is it more acceptable to refuse to do part of a job you agreed to because of religious moralism? These are just two facets of the same situation. One, clearly reprehensible, one acceptable. Anyone know why?
Morgan