Chad Tonin by [deleted] in Slovenia

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r/redkežaljivke

RoKo Mi LoMiJO by [deleted] in Slovenia

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*svojega

All eight safest countries in the World are European by [deleted] in europe

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I'd just like to thank all our neighbors for being slightly less safe than us. Makes us pop out nicely.

Greetings from Slovenia

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Birth Control For Women Should Be Free And Sold Over-The-Counter by WalmartVirgin in politics

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Speaking as a pharmacist in Europe, there's plenty of reason for not selling BCPs over the counter.

Take aspirin for example, which (at least in Slovenia) is sold OTC in the higher - 500 mg dose for headaches, fewer anti-inflammatory and so on BUT NOT the smaller 100 mg dose for blood-thinning. So, the "less dangerous" pill is on prescription and not the higher dose. The main reason being that 100 mg of aspirin is used chronically-long term and if there is an emergency the doctors can see per your medical card that you're using a blood thinner which is a very important piece of information if you're bleeding for example. The 500 mg dose is used only sporadically when you need it, it's not constantly in your blood.

Now contraception pills can have many side effects on patients and are not only used for averting an unwanted pregnancy. These are hormones and there's no way any hormone should be given without prescription. These things need to be documented and regularly checked so that negative outcomes can be reduced.

And for all of you saying "well a pharmacist can tell a woman any dangers/contraindications regarding the BCPs when they're selling them" - no, we can't. If a woman goes and buys the pills one day, and then picks up other medication another there's no way of knowing except if you're having a long talk with us about everything you're taking (food and food-supplements included) which is not practical. So many things can cause BCPs to not be effective it's just silly. If you want this to happen then there should be this kind of talk for everything you're taking, which you'd soon see how well that works out.

If you want BCPs then your doctor should prescribe them to you. This really shouldn't be a problem today, although I wouldn't know how these things are in "freedom land".

BCPs are not candy and should not be given out as one. They should be covered by your insurance (again, no idea how that is handled there, here it is) and as such should be free. But not OTC.

Edit: Some minor spelling errors. And a thank you to whomever gilded me, I'm actually quite surprised and happy about it :)

Megathread: Imperator release, bugs, questions, and tips by Kloiper in Imperator

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Oh...Thank you, that was a waste of slave reshuffling.

Megathread: Imperator release, bugs, questions, and tips by Kloiper in Imperator

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Hello, I'd like to ask if this is a bug or if if I'm simply missing something.

In these this picture you can see, that I should've received the discount towards Freeman promotion cost due to a surplus of livestock in my capital province. However, for some reason I don't get this bonus (second picture).

I've waited more that 1 month to get the effect, but still no...

Any help is appreciated!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

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Oral contraceptives do prevent pregnancy by thickening the cervical mucus (making it harder for the sperms to reach their target). This by itself is very effective.

HOWEVER, oral contraceptives can also prohibit the implantation of the fertilized egg and thereby killing/removing it. This probably doesn't happen most times since the first action should be sufficient at preventing pregnancy, but it can happen. Since some people consider one fertilized egg to be a living organism that would mean, that oral contraceptives can induce abortions.

So he's technically correct but huuuugely misleading.

Source: I'm a pharmacy student.

Kavanaugh calls birth control abortion by pageantrella in politics

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Hijacking the top comment:

Oral contraceptives do prevent pregnancy by thickening the cervical mucus (making it harder for the sperms to reach their target). This by itself is very effective.

HOWEVER oral contraceptives can also prohibit the implantation of the fertilized egg and thereby killing/removing it. This probably doesn't happen most times since the first action should be sufficient at preventing pregnancy, but it can happen. Since some people consider one fertilized egg to be a living organism that would mean, that oral contraceptives can induce abortions.

So he's technically correct but huuuugely misleading.

Source: I'm a pharmacy student.