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One of the e-cards being used to promote the "Back Up Your Birth Control" campaign
On Wednesday, March 30, the National Institute of Reproductive Health’s Back Up Your Birth Control Campaign is sponsoring a Day of Action aimed at high school and college students.
By spreading the word about so-called emergency contraception (EC), the ostensible purpose of the campaign is to try to prevent unintended pregnancies. But one can only assume the folks at NIRH never got the memo that EC has proven to be not all it’s cracked up to be.
Three years ago, Dr. James Trussell conducted a web seminar (accessible here) in which he made some rather candid admissions about the failure of EC to reduce the rate of unintended pregnancy. [Continue reading ...]
Although the FDA last week approved the drug “ella” (ulipristal acetate) for prescription use, the controversy over how it works — Is it a contraceptive, or an abortifacient, or both? — shows no signs of going away any time soon.
According to the New York Times, the members of the FDA’s advisory committee that voted to approve it were largely indifferent to this question; all they concluded, in their wisdom, is that it’s supposedly “safe and effective”.
Meanwhile, ella’s manufacturers are going to great lengths to claim that it functions only as a contraceptive and not as an abortifacient. Witness David Archer, whom Slate calls an “expert” for ella’s manufacturer, HRA Pharma of Paris: [Continue reading ...]