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Charlie Esser worries about overuse of Plan B, and about people using it instead of the Pill, which requires a prescription. This is hard to imagine. Plan B is quite expensive (around $50 a pop). Also, it has side effects, like nausea. Also, it has a significant failure rate. Why would anyone use it as their regular method of bc? Instead of, say, the Today sponge, which only costs $3.50, is non prescription and available at the drug store?
Lots of things currently on sale in the drug store can be misused, for example Tylenol, which can cause liver failure if you take too much, or laxatives, which can be part of anorexia/bulemia. These are not theoretical but actual problems--yet the FDA trusts people to use these products sensibly. It's only with Plan B that they come up with outlandish scenarios that then become the reason why everyone must be deprived. That's not science, it's politics.
