Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Morning After Pill

So here's a story that says that the morning after pill does not lead to all the bad things that the right said it would. I'm shocked.

Easy access to the "morning-after pill" for emergency contraception use would not lead to riskier sexual behavior, according to a new study published in the January 5 issue of JAMA.
It would not increase unprotected intercourse, lead to abandonment of regular contraception, or increase the rate of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), researchers found.
On the other hand, its use could prevent approximately half of the 3.5 million unintended pregnancies that occur each year in the United States, proponents of the pill contend.
I don't suspect that this will change much of anything however.