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The Honduras Supreme Court has upheld the country’s absolute ban on emergency contraception, which would criminalize the sale, distribution, and use of the “morning-after pill” — imposing punishment for offenders equal to that of obtaining or performing an abortion, which in Honduras is completely restricted.
“Emergency contraception, or Plan B, can be very effective up to … five days after the act of unprotected intercourse,” says White, an obstetrician at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass.
Plan B is a synthetic dose of the hormone progesterone. It’s the same hormone that’s in typical birth control pills — but at a higher dose. It works primarily by stopping the ovaries from releasing an egg. No egg, no pregnancy.
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Happy New Year – according to the Back Up Your Birth Control campaign, the night of New Year’s Eve is renowned as a time of contraceptive mistakes, broken condoms and missed pills. Or ‘birth control oops’ as they like to call it. The campaign encouraged young women to send their friends a ‘funny morning after message’ through their web page, reminding them of the availability of the emergency contraceptive pill in case they had indeed had a birth control oops.
The sale of the abortion pill RU486 has been given final approval in Italy, despite protests from the Vatican and the government in the Catholic country.
BBC News
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Unlike in other European countries, the pill, also known as mifepristone, will be administered solely in hospitals.
The pill was originally approved by the country’s pharmaceuticals agency in late July, but the move prompted a parliamentary inquiry.
Italy was is one of the last European states to make it available.
Crooks and Liars By Susie Madrak Thursday Apr 23, 2009 7:00pm A political victory that offers another tool to young women to avoid unwanted pregnancies. Conservatives have often improperly described the drug as causing abortions: WASHINGTON — Seventeen-year-olds will soon be allowed to buy morning-after contraceptive pills without a doctor’s prescription after federal drug regulators Continue Reading …
Huffington Post April 22, 2009 Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar WASHINGTON — Seventeen-year-olds will be able to buy the “morning-after” emergency contraceptive without a doctor’s prescription, a decision that conservatives denounced as a blow to parental supervision of teens but that women’s groups said represents sound science. The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would accept, not Continue Reading …
A judge’s ruling means girls under 17 may soon have over-the-counter access to the emergency contraceptive. LA Times By Jill U. Adams April 6, 2009 Two weeks ago, a federal judge ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to allow 17-year-olds to buy the emergency contraceptive pill Plan B without a prescription and to consider Continue Reading …
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