I would feel weird with a pharmacist asking those questions too... but at least here in Canada, pharmacists now prescribe for UTIs, birth control, etc. So they gotta ask those questions. I suspect with time, people will get more comfortable with it.Thanks for the detailed response. I think your idea of perhaps just asking if they need a pamphlet with more information on other contraceptives would be pretty solid middle ground. I also through about the question of how many people would know about Plan B but not other contraceptives. But then I thought about the number of contraceptives there actually are (the many types of pills, IUDs, implants, shots, patches). I could envision and situation where someone tried the pill, had bad side effects and just stopped taking it without knowing of all the other options.
Also your example of the antibiotic is interesting and maybe makes things whole thing more clear me. Would you feel it would be out of bounds for a pharmacist to to say to a patient who was prescribed an antibiotic for a UTI that to help avoid future UTIs try to urinate more often (don't "hold it" for too long) and urinate soon after sex. I would be fine with a doctor saying this, but I'm not sure how I feel with a pharmacist saying it and I don't know if that is a good or bad thing for our healthcare system as I think patients having more information on their health is better. Although this is a little different because this would be a prescription medication and the pharmacist would know that they had talked to doctor already. So maybe they could ask: "do you need more information on how to avoid UTIs in the future?"
Another thing I was thinking about that complicates this whole thing is that the state of modern contraception is itself inherently sexist, and that sucks.
I would prefer prescription pick up to always occur in a semi private area so it's less awkward having frank, but necessary, conversations.