Today was an enlightening experience with one of my closer girlfriends.
For the sake of anonymity, I will omit her name entirely. In fact I'm not sure if this post is at all a good idea but for the sake information sharing, I think I will go ahead with this post.
If you are furiously googling "morning after pill" after a happy night out, you are shit out of luck. Apparently, the morning after pill isn't a over-the-counter drug here in Singapore.
It's pretty surprising because when I was in Vietnam, pharmacies were everywhere. Turn a corner and you'll face a drugstore. The people in Vietnam prefer to self diagnose and pick up their own medication without a doctor consultation.
So when I explored a drugstore, I saw everything from contraceptives to kidney pain remedies. Which is painting Vietnam to be the face of anti-kids and pro-drinking but that is not what I mean.
Back to topic, in Singapore, all morning after pills have to go through a general practitioner. In fact, when my girlfriend finally managed to get a prescription, it was a simple tube slapped with a "poison" label.
How conservative a country are we, to label something as common as the morning after pill as poison?!
Regardless, she was watching tv and I was reading the disclaimer inside the box and apparently, 1 in 4 will experience nausea, 1 in 6 will experience vomiting spells and an undisclosed percentage can have cancers or deaths triggered from this.
When asked if she preferred a chance of dying or a chance of pregnancy, my girlfriend said without hesitation "of course dying," and swallowed it in a swoop.
The kind of interesting people I call friends heh heh heh.
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