Emergency Contraceptives
Despite the age-old belief that the purpose of sexual interaction is to reproduce, people have attempted to practice means of contraception for thousands of years. In Europe, large segments of the population began to use various methods to regulate conception, pregnancy, or births in the latter part of the eighteenth century. During the nineteenth century, the widespread desire for more forms effective means of controlling the number of births resulted in the development of numerous devices and or medications that provided both men and women with opportunities to use contraceptives. With the increased demand and practice of contraception, the medical community needed to provide the population with the best means possible for each individual to prevent conception. For this reason, medical science has in the past few years has made significant advances in the different areas of birth control.
The discovery of emergency or postcoital contraceptives was a breakthrough in the treatment of early-unwanted pregnancies. This particular method of preventing conception has actually existed for many years in the United States and throughout the world. The currently approved method and dosage is 0.10 mg ethinyl estradiol (estrogen) and 0.50 mg levonrgestrel (progestin) taken within 72 hours of intercourse and another dose 12 hours later (Emergency). This is a modified or off-label use of the oral contraceptives normally prescribed for women and is perfectly legal, but not officially approved. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just recently officially approved the use of oral contraceptives as postcoital contraceptives at the doses listed above (Federal). Recently, the French abortion pill RU486...
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Emergency Contraception If women were more informed on the appropriate use of emergency contraceptive, whether they are safe and also effective, then there would potentially be a decrease in unexpected pregnancies, and abortions. Women are often uninformed of emergency contraceptives, and although the lack of knowledge is obvious among the younger population, it seem to be even more obvious in the population of women over 30. There has only been a very small amount of researches done in regards to