Emergency Contraceptive

[velvetdahlia.livejournal.com]

Hello All-- I've enjoyed being in the hut-- though I'm not due of a few weeks, I'm always into menstrual activism.

Here's a great article on Emergency Birth Control-- very informative and empowering. Maybe some on the list will be interested. Please check it out and email it to any woman you know who will need the information (and, let's face it, as long as we are sexually active with men, and as long as we face the threat of rape, we'll need it.)
Things to Know about EC

Comments

[serpina.livejournal.com]

Hello, welcome, and thanks for the post. While I agree that emergency contraception should continue to be legal and available to women who need it, my gut reaction is that there is something a little cavalier about the approach of that article. I and some of the women I know who've used emergency contraception have had pretty bad experiences with it: yes, it worked, but we had tremendous, awful, gut-wrenching nausea for about 24 hours. I also had a strange and unexplainable nipple discharge for about six months following the incident. (It had never happened before, and once I went back onto the pill, it never happened again.) I'll be the first to admit that that day through hell was better than giving birth to a child under the circumstances at that time would have been.

While the article in no way implies that you should go out and have unprotected sex and use emergency contraception as your main form of birth control, I still feel that some mention of potential side effects when taking high dosages of birth control pills should be made.

Hope you don't mind my adding my two cents worth.