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Article: Study confirms safety of morning-after birth control pills
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- July 1, 1998
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AP Online
07-01-1998
BOSTON (AP) _ Women can safely use at-home emergency supplies of morning-after pills to prevent pregnancy, a study concludes.
The research, conducted in England, gave women packets of the hormone pills to use in case they wanted to protect themselves from pregnancy after having sex without birth control.
The study found these women used the pills correctly and had no ill effects when compared with another group who had to see their doctors for the pills.
Although pills prepared specifically for morning-after use are available by prescription in England and some other countries, they are essentially the same as ordinary birth control pills.
Last year, the ...