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Emergency Contraception to the Rescue

By AAN Staff
february 27, 2003  10:59 am
Emergency Contraception to the Rescue
"Condoms break, or slip off, during intercourse. Women forget to take their birth control pills. Couples, caught up in a moment of passion, often addled by intoxication, have unprotected sex. And sexual assaults, ranging from brutal attacks to insidious incidents of date rape, are still all too common," Chris Busby writes in Rochester, N.Y.'s, City Newspaper. Emergency contraception, or the "morning-after pill," can stop those accidents from becoming unwanted pregnancies. Busby, however, finds out hospitals and health-care workers aren't routinely letting woman know about emergency contraception, even rape victims. "Unlike so many unintended pregnancies, this is no accident," Busby writes.
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