Emergency_Contraceptives

Emergency Contraceptives Emergency contraceptives are not the same as RU-486, a form of non-surgical pregnancy termination recently approved for use in the US. EC is actually a series of high-dosage hormone pills, estrogen and progesterone, given in two doses twelve hours apart, as soon as possible after the unprotected intercourse occurred—preferably within 24 hours and no later than 72 hours. Currently, several series of pills are on the market, including Previn and Plan B, both of which have been approved for use in the US in the last two years. There is some controversy over exactly how EC actually works. Pro-life propaganda claims that EC has three possible effects: inhibiting ovulation, altering a woman's normal menstrual cycle, or irritating the lining of the uterus so that if the first and second actions fail, and the woman does become pregnant, the "tiny baby" will die before it can actually attach emergency, contraceptives, ec, works, way, pills, hours, actually, uterus, two, that's, series, pregnancy, possible, planned, parenthood, ovulation, lining, implantation, form, far, approved, years, worked, words, woman's, woman, within, weight, unprotected, twelve, tiny, three, thought, third, think, termination, take