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Savage Lovecast

Savage Love Episode 223

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2011

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A woman who broke up with her boyfriend after one year suffers from ADG (advanced dumper's guilt.) How can she get over it? In what sounds like an after-school special, a high-school couple really want to get it on. But the boy's violin teacher is poisoning the relationship! The drama! Violins! A queer woman wonders if she can maintain her friendship with a conservative Christian woman who thinks she's going to hell. How can you be friends with a woman like that?   Can you? 206-201-2720  Today's episode is brought to you by . Get 50 percent off almost any item when you enter "Savage" at checkout. Click here:   This episode is brought to you by Audible. Download a free audio book of your choice today at

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0:00.0

You're listening to a Stranger podcast, www.com.

0:05.7

If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,

0:16.1

well, there's nothing you can't ask on Savage Lovecast.

0:24.6

We've hit a new low in what I'm calling situational pro-life ethics.

0:29.8

You may be familiar with the fact that there are pharmacists out there who feel it isn't

0:33.8

their job or don't want it to be a job or have refused to fill prescriptions

0:37.9

for the morning after pill for plan B because they disapprove of abortion and for religious

0:44.9

reasons. And there have been attempts to codify this into law, religious exceptions for certain

0:49.4

people to not have to do their jobs because they disapprove of you and yours and your bets and what you're doing with them.

0:58.0

And the drugs that you need.

0:59.4

I think that if a doctor's written you a prescription, that the pharmacist should fill your prescription without making any moral judgments and shut the fuck up and give you your drugs.

1:08.1

If they don't want to fill people's prescriptions, perhaps they

1:10.8

shouldn't be pharmacists. We've been over this before on the podcast and everywhere else.

1:14.8

And sometimes you lose your capacity to be shocked, but I am shocked. In Idaho, Idaho, God bless

1:22.0

Idaho. If Idaho didn't exist, we'd have to make it up. A nurse at a Planned Parenthood

1:26.5

office called a Walgreens pharmacist

1:29.6

to ask for a prescription for something called methagene or meathergene. I'm sure I'm mispronouncing

1:35.9

the name of this drug, which at feministing they write is a medicine used to prevent or control

1:40.4

bleeding of the uterus following childbirth or an abortion.

1:45.2

The pharmacist, who was on the phone with Planned Parenthood, refused to fill the

1:51.3

prescription until Planned Parenthood told her what it was for.

1:58.7

If it was for someone who'd just given birth, she would fill the prescription. If it was for someone who'd just given birth,

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