Sexual history no longer taken for morning after pill

[CatBoreal]

Pharmacists agree to drop controversial form
Privacy commissioner read of screening in Star

Ontario pharmacists will be asked to stop collecting sensitive information about a woman's sexual activity before they dispense the so-called morning after pill.

The Ontario College of Pharmacists agreed yesterday to advise pharmacists not to use a controversial screening form to collect the information after privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian complained following a report in the Toronto Star last week.

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Abby Lippman, chair of the Canadian Women's Health Council, which is lobbying to have the pill made an over-the-counter drug so it can be made even more widely available to women, said she was delighted by the news.

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Representatives of the Ontario Pharmacists' Association and the Ontario College of Pharmacists acknowledged in a statement issued by Cavoukian's office that the screening form "should be replaced by made-in-Ontario guidelines that comply with the requirements of health privacy legislation in Ontario."

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YES!

[Mother Jones]

1. This is great news!

and looooong overdue....thanks for posting.

[Bassic]

2. That isvery good indeed

I never understood why they did that in the first place.

[jim3775]

3. I can believe that sexual history was ever asked for in the first place!

Who approved the use of that form?