Yesterday, we were befuddled by what we thought might be a birth control conspiracy in the making. Why were two West Village CVSes bereft of Plan B, just days shy of Everyone Gets Laid Nite? Luckily, an apparently frequent Plan B purchaser had some inside information about the morning-after madness.

While the timing of the two pharmacies running out of Plan B is pretty amusing, I've seen the same thing happen before. A year or so back I myself got the last pill pack they had in stock, and I watched them tape up that sign. The reason? The first CVS you mentioned is right next to Planned Parenthood on Bleecker. The Pharmacist told me they always had a large number of Rx's for Plan B put in to be filled at that location.

Thing is, I'm pretty sure that law was passed recently that allowed 18+ year old women to get Plan B over the counter, so either:

a) you're right, lots of NYU students are having a lot of unprotected sex

or

b) Planned Parenthood's location *is* responsible for the spike in orders—and all these scripts have got to be for underage girls.

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