‘Morning-After’ Pills Urged at the Ready
Women should be able to keep an advance prescription of “morning-after” pills at home to prevent pregnancies if they have unprotected sex, the incoming president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said.
The nation’s 40,000 obstetrician-gynecologists should use checkups to offer women of childbearing age advance prescriptions for emergency contraceptives, Dr. Thomas Purdon said at the group’s annual meeting in Chicago.
Half of all U.S. pregnancies, about 3 million yearly, are unintended.
The academy says only 1% of women have ever used the pills, which are high-dose birth control pills; many confuse them with RU-486, the abortion pill.
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