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Unintended pregnancies are endemic in the United States, and the costs are huge.¹ The traditional approach to this problem has been primary prevention (contraception), backed up by secondary prevention (induced abortion). For decades, emergency contraception has been ignored as a method of primary prevention.

Although most U.S. obstetricians and gynecologists are aware of emergency contraception, they prescribe it infrequently. Only 1 percent of women in the United States report ever having used emergency contraception.² In contrast, each year 2 to 3 percent of women of reproductive age have an induced abortion. Thus, the cumulative number of women who have had . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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