Recent or current usage of a cancer screening or contraceptive method (ever usage for emergency contraception) was a statistically significant predictor of correctly answering all questions except condom usage.
In these analyses, age group, racial/ethnic group, having private medical insurance, and current, recent or ever (for emergency contraception only) use of the cancer screening or contraceptive methods were used as covariates in the models.
As an alternative to emergency contraceptive pills, doctors also recommend using a copper-T intrauterine device (IUD) for emergency contraception.
A year 10 girl calls in asking for emergency contraception.
The medical and social arguments for emergency contraception are obvious.
But there were two problems with using birth control pills for emergency contraception.
In December 1995, an international consortium of advocates for emergency contraception sought a company to make a pill specifically for emergency contraception that did not have the side effects of birth control pills.
Researchers, pretending to be 17, called 943 commercial pharmacies in five states to ask for emergency contraception.
Ask Siri where you can obtain emergency contraception, and she comes back with a definition – a definition anyone asking for emergency contraception is presumably fully aware of.
The saddest thing, says Wallace, is that teenage girls who have unprotected sex can avoid the risk of pregnancy altogether by asking for emergency contraception.
Women's health advocates are expected to argue that the "morning after pill," which is used for emergency contraception, should be made available over-the-counter.
