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Advantages of Emergency Contraception
- ECPs prevent unwanted pregnancies after forced intercourse, a mistake, or a condom breakage.
- Emergency contraception pills do not affect future fertility.
- ECPs can help to prevent abortions and are less costly.
- They can be obtained and left in your medicine cabinet in case of an emergency such as condom breakage or forced sex.
- In Washington, California, Hawaii, Alaska and New Mexico, ECPs are avilable over the counter without a perscription.
- Making emergency contraception widely available could cut the number of unintended pregnancies in half and reduce the need for abortion. However, while emergency contraceptive pills prevent most of the pregnancies which follow a single act of intercourse, they are not as effective as ongoing contraceptives.
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