Study: Access to Plan B Does Not Increase Risky Sex

[atommom]

A study released today finds that easy access to emergency contraception does not promote risky sexual behavior. The FDA will decide later this month whether to approve the drug for over-the-counter sale to women 16 and older.

(WOMENSENEWS)--Giving women packets of Plan B, a form of emergency contraception also known as the "morning after pill," did not lead to an increase in unprotected sex, an increase in pregnancy rates or cause women to forgo regular contraception, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study revealed women with the greatest access to emergency contraception were more likely to use it, but that greater access did not lead to changes in
sexual behavior that were statistically different from subjects whose access was more restricted.

http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=2135

Of course, conservatives are already trying to debunk this study.

"Studies like this give new meaning to political science," said Wendy Wright, senior policy director for Concerned Women for America, a Washington, D.C.-based public policy advocacy organization. She said the researchers behind studies like Raine's have their own agenda. "They've politicized science."

WE'VE politicized science ...??? :argh:

[sam sarrha]

1. science has always been political, the code word is "Blind Eye of Science"

you ignore anything that might piss of the people who gave you the grant.

i was doing Pesticide research for an oil company, i found an anomaly that made a spike higher than the bell curve, i was told to calculate the ratio of the bottom of spike and the bell curve, then multiply the bell curve to eliminate the 'resolution' of the spike.. it disappeared. un fortunately i had already entered it in the "book" and my project was moved out to the back of the facility into a 4 x 4 x 8 plywood shack.. and it had a fire one night soon after, i joined the peace corps and went to Africa for 3 years. the spike represented Severe allergic react ons to a popular product and i lost them billions of dollars..

it is a felony to alter/remove/destroy the 'lab book'in the industry at the time... so much for studying Pure Science all those years..