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Emergency contraception misuse.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
After reading a number of inflammatory articles in support of emergency contraception, I feel compelled to write and express my views as a board certified practicing obstetrician/gynecologist ("Groups Push to Obtain OTC Status for Plan B," Feb. 1, p. 6).
I do not feel that the Food and Drug Administration is withholding a much needed medication but is protecting scared and desperate patients from a potential misuse of a medication.
The escalating problem of hyperbole and headline-grabbing sound bites deflects attention from the real issue. Educated, wealthy, mature women will always have access to emergency contraception and will most likely use it appropriately. The women we need to worry about are the young teenagers, the rape victims, and the poor patients, who ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 18, 2004 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Bartels, Lynn February 21, 2006 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) December 17, 2003 700+ words
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- Pharmacists and Emergency Contraception.
- Magazine article from: OB/GYN Clinical Alert January 1, 2005 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Whittaker, Paul G. Berger, Matthew Armstrong, Kay A. Felice, Toni L. Adams, Janet September 1, 2007 700+ words
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- Readings on Emergency Contraception Grossman, Richard A. Grossman, Bryan D. January 1, 1996 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Whittaker, Paul G. Armstrong, Kay A. Adams, Janet September 1, 2008 700+ words
Emergency contraception is a safe, highly effective...that the Yuzpe regimen of emergency contraception (two doses of combined...Yet the availability of emergency contraception at pharmacies did not guarantee...