Reported September 15, 2006
Abortion Rates Not Falling from Morning After Pill
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Emergency contraception, or Plan B, can effectively prevent pregnancy, provided you take the pills 72 hours of sexual intercourse.
Emergency contraception can help some women prevent pregnancy some of the time, but it won't prevent all women from getting pregnant all of the time. At least that's the opinion of Professor Anna Glaser from the Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust in Edinburgh, England. Her editorial appears in this week's British Medical Journal.
Despite the gradually increasing availability of emergency contraception, abortion rates are on the rise. In 1984 the abortion rate in England was 11 abortions per 1,000 women -- totaling 138,388. In 2004 the figure was 17.8 abortions per 1,000 women -- or 185,400 women.
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