'Banning' the morning after drug?
Read with concern the morning after drug being removed from the drug stores in Chennai . Considering the current social trends, one would think if there is a tested and proven drug that doesn't have long term implications, then it is a brave move to put it up for over the counter sale. Yes, like the protesters have pointed out there will be its abuse, there will be abuse always. So what? The problem with the consumerist civil society movement is that they wait for someone to put a product or a service in the market and then come up with their protests, often they are not against the product, but, that 'others' may not have 'information' and 'discrimination' to use it. The upper middle class that looks down on the lower strata of society often crowd such consumer groups in chennai . It would be worth asking them as to whether their protest is backed up by any survey of why people use an emergency oral contraceptive or how many such cases get un -reported in t...