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...necessary prescription. But many doctors are unavailable to write prescriptions on weekends and some pharmacies do not carry the drug. Since people tend to be more sexually active during weekends and holidays when doctors’ offices are closed, this can be a significant problem. The morning-after pill must be taken within a narrow window of time to be effective—ideally within 24 hours after intercourse. By the time a woman jumps all these hurdles, it might be too late...
Depending on the method used, emergency contraception can reduce a woman’s risk of becoming pregnant from a single act of intercourse by between 75 and 99 percent. It works similarly to regular birth control pills; it contains the same hormones and likewise prevents ovulation or fertilization of an egg. If fertilization has already occurred, the hormones prevent the egg from implanting into the uterus—which is the medical definition of pregnancy. Although research over the past 30 years has shown that the morning-after pill is safe and effective, the many barriers to obtaining...
Critics—employing the same hackneyed argument they use for opposing increased access to abortion—argue that making the pill easier to obtain will cause it to be abused as regular contraception. “You will have people...falling back on this idea we’ll all just go to the drugstore in the morning and get a morning-after pill,” argued Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America (CWA) in an Associated Press article. CWA is a conservative organization that is opposed to many reproductive rights and has misleadingly linked emergency...
...woman wants to prevent becoming pregnant, it’s her prerogative to have every medically viable preventative measure available to her. And given the 30 years of research devoted to this issue, the prediction that this policy change would encourage a lazy reliance on the morning-after pill is just plain inaccurate. According to Dr. Felicia Stewart, a member of the University of California, at San Francisco’s Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy, there is no evidence that increased access to emergency contraception makes women more careless about regular contraception...
...possible to verify applicants' incomes. A Seoul cosmetics salesman (who requested anonymity) applied for most of his five cards on street corners, and he says the only check was a phone call to him at his office. He's now $42,000 in debt. "Koreans ate a poison pill," says Kim Kyeong Won of the Samsung Economic Research Institute. "It tasted sweet at the time but was still poison...