A Pennsylvania university is providing easy access to the morning-after pill through vending machine inside the student health center.
Students at Shippensburg University can get Plan-B, the emergency contraception, from a vending machine after 85 percent of the student body said they supported the idea.
Students pay $25 for one dose. The University says it does not make a profit from the Plan-B vending machine.
"We were uncomfortable providing it for free because that would mean we were supporting Plan B with either state money or fee money," said Dr. Roger Serr, VP Student Affairs at Shippensburg University.
Dr. Serr says that somewhere between 350 and 400 doses are sold each year to the female population, which last fall totaled 3,718 students.
The pill can be legally sold over-the-counter to anyone 17 or older.
Dr. Serr says making it available through a vending machine makes things a bit more comfortable for students.
"It's really there, the machine is really used for privacy if anything else if a person wants to come in," said Serr.
Plan B contains hormones which are meant to disrupt ovulation or prevent fertilization from happening.
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