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Colorado’s legislature is considering a proposed law that would mandate that all hospitals in the state give the abortifacient “morning-after” pill to rape victims. There would be no provision for religious objections. Read more at the source: Catholic World News
Women’s rights groups seeking easier access to emergency contraception are pressuring U.S. regulators as they try to decide whether to approve a nonprescription “morning after” pill. The Food and Drug Administration last year denied a request by Barr Pharmaceuticals to sell the contraceptive, called Plan B, over the counter. That sparked a furor over whether […]
With studies like the one above, it’s hard to imagine that the morning after pill isn’t readily available. In fact, in some states, the pill isn’t even available for rape victims that come into hospitals for an emergency rape kit.
The main reason that the morning after pill isn’t yet available without a prescription from […]
Roughly 24 percent of the women in the first group ended up using the Morning After Pill during the time of the study. That sounds like a large number, but 21 percent of the women in the last group that didn’t have the pill readily available ended up getting a prescription for it and […]
Each group reported the same percentage of sexually transmitted diseases, which could conclude that the availability of the MAP wouldn’t effect the promiscuity in women, since the group which had the MAP available weren’t more sexually active than the group that required a prescription.
12 percent of women in each group had contracted a sexually transmitted […]
A study group of 2,100 women between the ages of 15 and 24 was divided into three groups. One group was given the MAP to take home in case they were to need it, another group was given the ability to pick up the MAP without a prescription, and the last group were told that […]
There are many points against having the MAP available without a prescription: it promotes promiscuity, encourages unprotected sex, and will increase sexually transmitted disease rates in younger women… We might assume.
One could say that having something available that would prevent pregnancy after engaging in unprotected sex would encourage younger women to have unprotected sex, because […]
The morning after pill aides in preventing conception in women that have had unprotected sex or whose contraceptive method failed during intercourse. Unfortunately, this emergency contraception is not readily available without a prescription as there are many groups and many arguments fighting to keep it as out of reach as possible.
Unlike other contraceptives, the morning after pill will not protect you from sexually transmitted diseases and it is definitely not recommended for prolonged use. It is called an emergency contraception method because it is only intended to be used in emergencies.
It is always a good idea to look into a type of contraception, such as […]
There really isn’t much comparison between RU-486 and the morning after pill, but they are compared in arguments against making the morning after pill readily available to women that need it.
RU-486 works by dislodging the fertilized egg from the uterine lining after the woman has become pregnant. This will only work within the first 9 […]
The woman has to take the first pill immediately after receiving it and then take the second pill twelve hours after the first one in order to maintain the high hormone levels in her body.
As we already discussed, the morning after pill prevents the egg, fertilized or not fertilized, from embedding itself in the uterine […]
Since the morning after pill contains high amounts of female hormones, the pill can cause a number of small side effects.
Nausea
Vomiting
Headaches
Irregular vaginal bleeding
Heavy Menstruation
The Morning After Pill is provided to women in order to prevent their egg from implanting itself inside of the uterine wall. If the egg cannot embed itself in the wall of the uterus, the woman cannot become pregnant.
The pill is meant for women who have had unprotected sex or whose contraceptive method […]