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Sales of Plan B contraceptive begin over the counter

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After a years-long debate over whether the morning-after birth control pill should be sold without a prescription, Plan B emergency contraception is now available to walk-in pharmacy customers.

“We received our first shipment Monday, Nov. 6, and by golly, we dispensed it that afternoon,” said Linda Willsey, of the Community Pharmacy in Madison. She added that customers of the pharmacy near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus had been asking about it since the FDA approval in late summer.