Japan to launch “morning-after pills” trial sale without prescription

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1. Move in the right direction. It needs to come with education though or else you’ll have various people exploiting the situation

2. Is this really necessary? I mean, I think it is great that women have this option, but just look at the rates of sexlessness in Japan. The company manufacturing these pills will probably lose a lot of money due to lack of purchases.

3. NN is on the menu, boys! 立ちんぼ time!

4. This doesn’t sound like it’ll help the birthrate tbh

5. Well, only took them 30 years. In contrast, Viagra was approved in six months. Weird huh?

6. They are really trying to beat S.Korea in the lowest birth rates in Asia battle XD

7. I did know the Japanese were having sex any more, I thought all the guys had robot girlfriends these days.

8. No surprise that this thread has already attracted all the ‘hurr-durr but BIRTHRATE amirite?!’ weirdos. A woman desperate enough to buy one of these pills in the first place isn’t gonna suddenly jump for joy at the beauty of motherhood if she didn’t have this option, you donkeys.

9. On the other hand, abortion is illegal in the US.

10. No information on the price, but they will probably still charge an arm and a leg for a pill that costs $5 in other countries.

11. Weirdly nobody uses condoms in this country

12. Finally!!! Welcome to the 21st century! In Korea you can get them for so cheap

13. Finally!

14. Wow, good for Japan. I live here and my wife needs to go to the actual doctor’s for birth control refills. It’s nuts.

15. Tomorrow?