Comment on Study finds the 'morning-after pill' is tougher to buy at Colorado pharmacies than law allows

The emergency contraceptive drug that can prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex, commonly known as Plan B, has no age restriction and has federal approval for sale on pharmacy shelves. Yet in Colorado, researchers found the “morning-after pill” isn’t always as accessible as law allows. Researchers from the University of Colorado medicine and pharmacy schools asked for the emergency contraception at 633 pharmacies across the state — in urban, rural and frontier towns — in 2014 to find out how easily they could buy it. More than half of the pharmacies that carried the drug — 56 percent — said an ID was required for purchase, despite that there is no such legal requirement. Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette