F.D.A. Approves 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive

[babsbunny]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/health/policy/14pill.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: August 13, 2010

WASHINGTON — Federal drug regulators on Friday approved a new form of emergency contraceptive pill that prevents pregnancies if taken as many as five days after unprotected intercourse.

The pill, called ella, will be available by prescription only. Developed in government laboratories, it is more effective than Plan B, the morning-after pill now available over the counter to women 17 and older.

That pill gradually loses efficacy and can be taken at most three days after sex. Ella, by contrast, works just as well on the fifth day as the first after sex.

[Lasher]

1. This is good but I wish you didn't need a prescription.

That would be even better.

[rurallib]

2. some christian doctor probably won't prescribe it or

xtian pharmacist fill it.

[pipi_k]

3. Yep, too many roadblocks..

Trying to see the doctor in time for the Rx...

hoping the doctor isn't a judgmental "right to life" type who won't give a prescription...

hoping the pharmacist isn't a judgmental "right to life" type who won't fill the Rx...

[CTyankee]

4. That's why one out of four women in the U.S. have been to a Planned Parenthood

clinic in their lifetime. The staffs at these clinics are saints. They try very hard to serve their patients needs...and you can get EC from them...