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To the Editor: Glasier and Baird (July 2 issue)¹ found that emergency contraception was used responsibly by women who were given the appropriate medication to keep at home. Making emergency contraception available in this way is consistent with the objectives of a project implemented in community pharmacies in Washington State. Under collaborative drug-therapy agreements developed jointly by physicians and pharmacists, women may obtain emergency contraceptive pills in advance of or in response to an immediate need directly from pharmacists without first contacting their health care providers. This program does not make emergency contraception available without prescription but rather, after a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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