I’ve used the morning-after pill several times in my life when my contraception has failed. But not since the happy day it became available over the counter in 2004. It took 7 years of campaining by the National Health and Medical Research Council to make this happen with anti-choice advocates and some conservatives fighting hard against it. They said it would “promote promiscuity and encourage unsafe sex”. Yeah sure. Just like the fact that selling condoms in supermarkets makes me want to buy 100 boxes and go nuts every time I go to buy some Weet Bix and Shampoo.
But don’t take my word for it, research has repeatedly found this to be untrue.
I was editing Cosmo at the time and ran an editorial campaign to support the availability of emergency contraception over the counter. I passionately believed that the best way to reduce the abortion rate is to prevent unwanted pregnancies from happening in the first place – which makes it BAFFLING to me when anti-choice campaigners oppose things like easy access to contraception and sex education. Anyway, I digress.
Contraception fails. It does. Condoms break. Diaphragms fall out. People make bad spontaneous decisions. Sometimes there’s no time for a doctor’s appointment. Sometimes the woman in question can’t afford one. Other times the only GP she has access to is someone she doesn’t want to discuss her sex life with.
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Today I purchased the emergency pil over the counter, after a tricky condom-break with my partner of two years, to be absolutely 100% fafe and although I regularly take Levlan ED each day. The pharmacist made me feel awful and all but lectured me after I asked a couple of questions about the cover of my pill and whether the EC was necessary, noting that I am no child but a 25y/o woman (he did so without any more insight than that I was on Levlan), and the woman at the counter thought it was appropriate to tell me that 'many girls had come in today to purchase this exact pill after a big night out of drinking'. She then attempted to comfort me because 'she used to be just the same'.. We still have a long long way to go I terms of understanding not only the effects of the pill itself, but our perceptions of the people that use it.
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