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Article: Join the EC E-mail campaign.(emergency contraception)(Brief Article)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- September 16, 2002
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America's rate of unwanted pregnancy is a huge public health scandal, but five years after being approved by the FDA, emergency contraception--the use of normal birth control pills to block pregnancy within seventy-two hours of unprotected sex--has yet to fulfill its potential. Part of the problem has to do with the difficulty of getting EC in time; many doctors don't want the hassle of dealing with walk-in patients, many clinics are closed on weekends and holidays (times of peak demand) and some pharmacies, like Wal-Mart's, refuse to stock it. That anti-choicers falsely liken EC to abortion and tar it as a dangerous drug doesn't help.
The main barrier to EC use, ...