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...Pill and other birth control devices are available everywhere, but women still get pregnant without wanting to: too many people neglect precautions at precisely the wrong time or use them improperly. Therefore scientists continue to search for an effective next-day antidote to tonight's mistake. An experiment announced last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association gives strong evidence that such a pill is not only feasible, but that a woman can have up to 72 hours after intercourse to correct matters...
...same drug used as a "morning-after" pill to prevent conception after intercourse. The FDA conclusion, and a new warning against use in pregnancy, does not affect the contraceptive use since the problem area is in surviving children of women who take the drug during pregnancy...
Theoretically, there is a risk of unknown degree if a woman takes DES for contraception and if, for some reason, it fails and she becomes pregnant. However, the morning-after pill is given in far lower total dosage
...startling facts is that despite the widespread availability of the Pill and other means of birth control, so many unwanted pregnancies happen, even among the most educated and sophisticated. Subconsciously, many may want to become pregnant, according to Dr. Lawrence Downs, a Manhattan psychiatrist, who, in collaboration with Psychologist David Clayson, has been studying women selected at random at New York Hospital's therapeutic-abortion ward. Downs found that at least one-quarter of the first 108 women studied had suffered psychiatric problems in the previous two years; more than half had lost a parent or close relative during...
...later operations to result in complications, physicians and counselors are trying to educate women to come in as soon as they have missed a period. Research is also progressing on substances that can safely induce menstruation when it is late. This would be not merely a morning-after pill, but perhaps, eventually, a fortnight-after pill...