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In the mid-nineties, the World Health Organization (WHO) began to realize that increased access to routine methods of contraception led to increased rates of abortion. So a new method of post-coital “contraception” was zealously sought and promoted: the morning-after pill.1 WHO Studies – Is Plan...

No form of emergency contraception is 100% effective (though the copper IUD comes close). So if your period is more than a week late, you might be pregnant. It’s hard to say exactly how effective each method actually is, especially since placebo-controlled studies would be super unethical here...