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To be effective, postcoital contraception must be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In this issue of the Journal, Glasier and Baird present the results of a practical study demonstrating that prescribing emergency contraceptive pills before they are needed can facilitate their use,¹ as compared with providing instruction about emergency contraception but requiring the woman to call a doctor for a prescription when she needs it. The women in the treatment group, who received the contraceptive pills ahead of time, were more likely to use emergency contraception once than those in the control group, but they were . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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