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double standard  Condoms are readily available without
identification. Why not Plan B?  May 20, 2013|By Meg Waite
Clayton   • Condoms are available to just about any person of
any age. Why limit girls' access to the morning-after
contraceptive? Condoms are available to just about any person of
any age. Why limit girls'… (Los Angeles Times )  In the uproar
about making the morning-after contraceptive known as Plan B
available to our daughters, there has been no similar outcry
about condoms and our sons. Anyone of any age can walk into a
drugstore — as well as most grocery and big-box stores — and buy
condoms. If you want to remain anonymous, you can pay cash; no
ID is required. If you're too embarrassed to face the checkout
clerk, use the self-check aisle or, for $17.97, get a box of 100
— flavored or with "added sensations," even — delivered to your
door in a plain brown box.  President Obama has suggested that
restrictions on making Plan B available