Women's health advocates, women's health care providers, and researchers have argued for years (and two different presidential administrations) about
the safety of emergency contraception and the importance of its place on the shelf, between the pregnancy tests and the condoms.
Despite evidence for the effectiveness and
safety of emergency contraceptives (ECs), 3,5,6,7 this method
of preventing pregnancy is underused.8 Barriers include lack
of knowledge, 9,10 reluctance
of young women to request medication from their physicians, 11 denial
of pregnancy risk12 and lack
of timely access to physicians or family planning clinics.13 As the effectiveness
of emergency contraception is time - dependent, convenient prescription and dispensing mechanisms are crucial to enabling its use.
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