by APFLI | Oct 20, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Responding to Health Minister Pierre Pettigrew’s announcement on 18May04 that Health Canada will move forward with allowing the “morning after pill” (MAP) to be sold without a doctor’s prescription, Dr. Will Johnston, president of Canadian...
by APFLI | Oct 20, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
By Hans E. Geisler, MD, FACOG, FACS Definitions Contraceptive – An agent for the prevention of conception[i] Contraception – Prevention of conception or impregnation[i] Impregnation – Act of making pregnant[i] Pregnancy – The condition of the...
by APFLI | Oct 13, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
The “contraceptive sex patch” has been found responsible for 17 deaths in women age 17 to 30 since its release in 2002, according to a recent exposé by the New York Post. The Post used Freedom of Information laws to obtain records from the U.S. Food and...
by APFLI | Sep 11, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Emergency Contraception Supporters want EC (MAP – Morning After Pill) to be freely available in all county health departments (to girls as young as 14, without parental knowledge) nationwide. They are also pressuring the FDA to release EC over-the-counter (OTC)....
by APFLI | Sep 2, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
For more articles concerning EC/MAP, click here. Emergency Contraception [EC] is a very potent medication. EC is also called the Morning After Pill [MAP]. (A specific brand of EC sold in the USA is Plan B.) EC is being provided in local health department clinics in...
by APFLI | Aug 2, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
YOUNG WOMEN REQUESTING EC ARE, DESPITE CONTRACEPTIVE COUNSELING, A HIGH RISK GROUP FOR NEW UNINTENDED PREGNANCIES/ABORTIONS EC [emergency contraception] was introduced in Sweden in 1994. In addition to an unplanned pregnancy, unprotected sexual intercourse may also...
by APFLI | Jul 26, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
…No studies to date show that Emergency Contraception/MAP reduces unintended pregnancy rates (20) or lowers abortion rates. In fact, studies show that morning-after pills increase rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion. After MAP was introduced on a...
by APFLI | May 8, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided 6May04 that it will not allow over-the-counter sales of Plan B, the “morning after pill” (MAP; often referred to as “emergency contraception” or EC). The drug is dangerous for women and...
by APFLI | Mar 10, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
The Morning After Pill (MAP/EC)I. STATEMENT OF CANADIAN PHYSICIANS FOR LIFEThe MAP is a multiple dose of an oral contraceptive. The MAP may prevent ovulation or, if fertilization has occurred, it may ruin the implantation of a newly conceived human being. It is...
by APFLI | Mar 9, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
“Emergency Contraception” is receiving a huge publicity push from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. In March, 2002, ACOG President Thomas Purdon sent a mailing to all ACOG members which urged them to make EC patient education a...
by APFLI | Mar 9, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
[the following text comes from "Estrogens and Progestins", "Contraceptive Agents" and "Agents Used to Treat Infertility", AMA Drug Evaluations, 5th Ed., AMA (American Medical Association), 1983; "Estrogens, Progestagens, Oral...
by APFLI | Mar 9, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
According to FDA information, the typical pregnancy rate for women using the pill is 5 percent. This means that of every 100 women using the pill, 5 will be pregnant within 12 months. About 10.4 million American women use the pill; thus there are more than 500,000...
by APFLI | Mar 9, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Mirena is an Abortifacient — It Is an IUD — an 'IntraUterine Device' that Causes Early Abortions… "Mirena is T-shaped. It is made of flexible plastic and contains a progestin hormone called levonorgestrel that is often used in birth...
by APFLI | Feb 18, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
EC (ECP – Emergency Contraception Pill) is also referred to as The Morning After Pill (MAP). The Drug. Some Estrogen / Progesterone combinations of ECP contain very high dosages of daily oral contraceptive (OC) pills (depending on the manufacturer). EC is...
by APFLI | Feb 18, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Did you know that your emergency contraceptive may act as an abortifacient (have a pre-implantation effect)? Click here to find out why: www.morningafterpill.org “Wilks' list of [“little known medical risks regarding use of the...
by APFLI | Feb 14, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
13 July 2007 Plan B: More Sales, Less Medical Care Today [13July] the Washington Post trumpets news that sales of the Plan B morning-after-pill have doubled since the FDA allowed it to be sold over-the-counter ("OTC") last fall. Several points need to be...
by APFLI | Jan 22, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Emergency Contraceptive Pills. [Again,] one must be careful of the terminology. Many now speak of "conception" as that moment when the human blastocyst, the early ball of approximately 100 cells, actually implants in the mother’s uterus (womb). The...
by APFLI | Jan 22, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Federal health officials approved the sale of the world's first contraceptive patch in November 2001. Ortho-Evra emits through the skin low doses of the same hormones used in birth control pills — but requires women to remember to use it weekly, instead of...
by APFLI | Jan 22, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Again, this is similar to the Pill and the Patch. It is a long-acting solution to the hassles of daily pill-taking. However, the side-effects and dangers of chemical pollution to the body should not be underestimated. Use by young undeveloped...
by APFLI | Jan 22, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
On July 26, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals of NJ announced it would no longer distribute or market the six-capsule Norplant System which provides "contraception" for five years. (Actually, Norplant can also cause early abortions by sometimes allowing break-through...