some other edumactional links:
http://plannedparenthood.com/library...ONTROL/EC.html
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Emergency contraception cannot end a pregnancy. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), "Emergency contraceptive pills are not effective if the woman is pregnant; they act by delaying or inhibiting ovulation, and/or altering tubal transport of sperm and/or ova (thereby inhibiting fertilization), and/or altering the endometrium (thereby inhibiting implantation)" (FDA, 1997). A recent study found that most often, ECPs reduce the risk of pregnancy by inhibiting ovulation (Marions, et al., 2002). Emergency contraception reduces the risk of pregnancy and helps prevent the need for abortion; it itself is not a form of abortion (Grimes, 1997; Guillebaud, 1998; Hughes, 1972; Van Look & Stewart, 1998).
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A recent study of 235 women who had used ECPs found that the overwhelming majority — 91 percent — were satisfied with the method, and 97 percent would recommend it to friends and family. These women also reported that they did not intend to substitute ECPs for regular contraceptive use (Harvey et al., 1999)
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more general info here:
http://plannedparenthood.com/library...mergContra.htm
and info on obtaining EC:
http://plannedparenthood.com/ec/
also, there's a hotline to call to obtain local information: 1-800-NOT-2LATE
and, if all that didn't tell you, I FULLY support emergency birth control. the pharmasist in this tory did what he felt was right, and his employer will do what they have established in their company policy. Personally I think it is morally wrong to deny medication to an individual when it has been prescribed by a doctor. Perhaps there is a pressing need to do so. perhaps a pregnancy would kill the mother-to-be, perhaps it's not being used as birth-control, who knows. Not the pharmasist, because of the patient-doctor confidentiality, and he has no right to know. I'd almost say that the poor woman has a case to sue the pants off of the ass-hat for willful neglect. He's denying medical care to someone when he doesn't know the whole story and does not have the training to make judgement, even if he DID have the whole story.
I'm with Lurkette on the abortion issue. It's my body, and my life, and I'm not ready for a kid right now. so I take birth control. and you know what? I may very well have killed a fertelized egg somewhere along the way by not allowing it to become embedded in the wall of my uterus. And I'm fine with that. And, since it's my soul that's going to hell if that's not okay, well.. i don't see how it's anyone else's business.