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Fri Jun 2, 2023, 08:42 PM Jun 2023

Missourians can now get free emergency contraception delivered to their front doors

This so good to have these free. Better to prevent a pregnancy if that is what you want.





Missourians can now get free emergency contraception delivered to their front doors


https://www.kmov.com/2023/06/01/missourians-can-now-get-free-emergency-contraception-delivered-their-front-doors/

By Shoshana Stahl

Published: Jun. 1, 2023 at 5:25 PM CDT

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - Missourians can get emergency contraception shipped right to their front door for free.

A new portal launched on Thursday through the Missouri Family Health Council, which is a non-profit focusing on expanding reproductive and sexual healthcare across the Show-Me state.

Director of program initiatives Ashley Kuykendall says the newest initiative launched is called Free EC.

“We’re hoping this project can help to meet some of those needs and really remove some of the geographic and cost barriers that people face,” Kuykendall says.
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“Emergency contraception is a form of birth control,” Kuykendall says. “It’s not a form of abortion and it can’t harm an existing pregnancy in any way. Because of that misinformation, I think when the abortion ban was enacted in the state of Missouri a lot of people conflated abortion and emergency contraception.”

“I thought that,” Smith says. “That’s why I said no in the beginning.”......

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