Of these, 40% were using condoms only, 28% condoms and another contraceptive method, 23% injectable contraception, 2% oral contraception and 6% another method.
MEDLINE, HighWire Press, Elsevier, PubMed, Google Scholar, Springerlink, EBSCO, and Wolters Kluwer Health databases were searched from 1967 2012 using the key terms emergency contraception, postcoital contraception, postcoital contraceptives, levonorgestrel, single dose and double dose.
With regard to contraception, hormonal post-coital contraception and insertion of an intrauterine contraceptive device are available.
Although multiple studies discuss adolescent contraceptive use, there is no consensus regarding the use of long-acting reversible contraception as a first-line contraception option.
Contraception, except emergency contraception, is legal in every Latin American country and Catholic teaching on contraception is widely ignored there.
Emergency contraception is available for free from GPs that provide contraception services, contraception and sexual health clinics and young people's services.
While opponents of free contraception often equate contraception with abortion, which they oppose, Crane says not everyone opposes contraception on those grounds.
But abortion opponents should be pro-contraception, since making contraception as affordable and available as possible reduces the number of unwanted pregnancies and thus abortions.
The birth of the pill is one of the great milestones in the history of medicine, but there is still a real need more affordable contraception, and contraception with fewer side effects.
Mr. Blumenthal said the rule "shrouds the term abortion in new and unnecessary ambiguity" and encourages medical providers to define it themselves and deny patients contraception, including emergency contraception for rape victims.
