Thursday, February 14, 2013

Report: 5.8M Women Used the Morning-After Pill; Half Feared Their Birth Control Method Had Failed

As many as 11 percent -- or 5.8 million -- of American women ages 15 to 44 have used emergency contraception, according to a federal report released yesterday, the Daily Beast website reports today (February 14, 2013).

In the first federal study of emergency contraception since the so-called "morning-after pill" was approved in 1998, the National Center for Health Statistics said it conducted the survey of 12,279 women between 2006 and 2010.

Half of the women who used the morning-after pill said they did so because they feared their birth-control method had failed, while the rest said they had unprotected sex.

Among women aged 20 to 24, 23 percent had used emergency contraception, while just 5 percent of women ages 30 to 44 had used it.

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