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Wellington Pharmacy, 1160 Varnum St. NE
Wellington Pharmacy is affiliated with Providence Hospital, which is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, which is affiliated with a God who isn’t too hot on contraception. Wellington acknowledges that birth control pills are sometimes prescribed [...]
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I am the only customer inside Chantilly's Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy on Halloween morning, and I'm not buying. A week earlier, the pro-life outfit was blessed by a bishop, sprinkled with holy water, and courted by the national press in preparation for its Oct. 21 grand opening. [...]
Capitol Pill is a new feature which tracks contraception access in D.C. pharmacies.
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Tschiffely Pharmacy, 1330 Connecticut Ave. NW.
A call to quaint Dupont Circle outfit Tschiffely Pharmacy, provider of prescription drugs and curios, produces mixed results. The pharmacist on hand says Tschiffely fills birth control pills and provides Plan B over the [...]
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Planned Parenthood's Schumacher Health Center, 1108 16th St. NW.
This 16th St. clinic, a stone's throw from the White House, is the area's leading source for affordable women's health care, birth control, and abortion services. For the same reasons, the center falls [...]
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Grubbs Care Pharmacy, 326 E. Capitol St. NE
This neighborhood Capitol Hill pharmacy, run by owner-pharmacist Michael Kim, stocks the whole shebang—birth control, emergency contraception, and the abortion pill. Plan B even comes a bit cheaper here than at your corner CVS, [...]
Capitol Pill is a new feature which tracks contraception access in D.C. pharmacies.
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Foer’s Pharmacy, 818 18th S. NW.
Just blocks away from the sexually promiscuous real estate of the George Washington University, Foer’s Pharmacy is in the position to make bank off baby prevention. And though Foer’s displays strange bra-and-stocking-clad mannequins in its front [...]
Capitol Pill is a new feature which tracks contraception access in D.C. pharmacies.
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CVS, 1702 Columbia Rd. NW (and various).
This D.C.-dominating chain addresses the birth control question as it does all things: with impatient efficiency. “Yes, yes, yes,” said the pharmacist on call at CVS’ Adams Morgan location when asked about birth control, emergency [...]
Capitol Pill is a new feature which tracks contraception access in D.C. pharmacies.
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Cathedral Pharmacy, 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW.
If the name weren’t enough to tip you off, lead pharmacist Paul Beringer is happy to let you in on Cathedral Pharmacy’s contraception policy: “Depends.” Beringer says he fills birth control prescriptions “sometimes,” according to “the [...]
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Tomorrow, a new Sexist project debuts: "Capitol Pill." Capitol Pill surveys local pharmacies about their availability of birth control, emergency contraception, and the abortion pill, then charts them on a map of the District. In each installment, I'll highlight a new pharmacy and rate it based on its friendliness toward providing contraception.
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The wonderful Emily Bazelon of Slate speaks out against Oklahoma's (and Alabama's and Louisiana's and Mississippi's) "paternalistic" ultrasound law, which forces women to receive ultrasounds in order to see their fetus before having an abortion. Bazelon writes:
For many pregnant women, ultrasounds are like candy—there can't be too many of those grainy black-and-white images of the [...]
