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Article: The best-kept secret we should all know about.(young Feminists)(Column)
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- Women's Health Activist
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Last summer, on a weekend visit home from Washington, I was animatedly telling my parents how I had spent a recent night outside a WNBA game gathering signatures in favor of over-the-counter status for emergency contraception (EC), the morning-after pill.
My momentum was shattered when my mother--a highly educated and informed women's health advocate--said, "The morning-after pill--that's the abortion pill, right?"
Coming four years after EC became available as a prescription-only medication, my mother's question revealed that great confusion remains about what EC is, how it works and whether women can use it effectively and responsibly. It is not used ...