FDA approves morning after pill for over the counter!

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by skcin

Jannie - did you take it a while ago? I don't want to be nosy, I'm just curious, because we rarely hear complaints about side effects in our clinic, usually just irreg. periods & some nausea. It used to be a much higher dose of hormones, so that's why I ask.

It was 17 years ago. And of course I don't think you're nosy; I put it out there to begin with. After all these years, I have no shame about it.

I do want to add that I am not thinking that the m.a.p. is like, killing an embryo or anything. I just wonder if this pill will make planning beforehand obsolete. I definitely do not believe that MOST young women are responsible with birth control. It just seems to me that this is like a quick fix on something that could have been prevented in the first place. But, if I had to vote on it, I would vote FOR it- only because I am totally pro-choice and wouldn't want to ever hurt our freedom.

Originally Posted by irishgrl

Some women are extremely fertile no matter what method they use my mother and my sister and even myself all got pregnant on the pill.

So with this rationale, a very fertile woman should be on birth control but take the m.a.p. every time she has sex- just in case?