Boots slashed the price of morning-after pills on Black Friday. Why not every day?
On Black Friday there’s a range of products you might reasonably expect to see advertised at a discount price. A TV maybe, a cashmere jumper, or perhaps a set of saucepans. But I certainly didn’t expect to find the morning-after pill nestled among the savings promoted on the Boots website as I scrolled through their offeringslast week. And yet there it was, at a 50% discount.
Emergency contraception is something that provides a safety net should things go wrong during sexual intercourse, though many women and people with wombs wouldn’t plan to use it as the first line of defence against pregnancy. Since its introduction to the UK in 1984, it has provided us with an effective plan B in the event that other contraceptive measures fail.
Although
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