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Speaker 1: From House to works dot Com. Well, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. This is Molly and Kristen. Christy usually read

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Speaker 1: a list from mail at the end of the podcast,

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Speaker 1: perfectly set up why we're doing this podcast and this

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Speaker 1: podcast topic in general. All Right, This email is from

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Speaker 1: Tiff and she writes, I've worked in a pharmacy for

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Speaker 1: over twelve years. Now. The easiest way to get all

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Speaker 1: the employees worked up is to begin a debate on

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Speaker 1: the Morning After pill. Since the original pills marketed has

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Speaker 1: been the subject of a lot of heated discussions. Our

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Speaker 1: not fully informed. We're seeing a lot of young adults

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Speaker 1: not go to their doctor but the broken condom. There

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Speaker 1: B does not protect women from. Many teams are afraid

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Speaker 1: to discuss the positives and negatives of the morning after

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Speaker 1: high dose of birth control hormones, and it is expensive,

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Speaker 1: would like us to tell our listeners the importance of

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