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Emergency Contraception Clinical Publications & Resources

Here you can find practice guidelines, clinical reports, interactive tools, and other resources designed for health care providers.

Advance provision of emergency contraception for pregnancy prevention, a podcast from The Cochrance Library

Argumentos para la defensa legal de la AE (spanish) from CLAE and ICEC

Barriers to Emergency Contraception (EC): Does Promoting EC Increase Risk For Contacting Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV/AIDS? from Medscape

Characteristics Associated with Emergency Contraception Use by Family Planning Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study from Guttmacher Institute

A Clinician’s Guide to Providing Emergency Contraceptive Pills (PDF) from Pacific Institute of Women’s Health

Consensus Grows that Patients’ Needs Ultimately Outweigh Providers’ Right to Refuse Services from the Guttmacher Institute

Contraceptive Behavior and Risk Taking Among Adolescents from Medscape

Emergency Contraception (EC) and Adolescents from Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

Emergency Contraception: Effective Use from Medscape (free registration required)

Emergency Contraception: A Last Chance to Prevent Unintended Pregnancy (PDF) by James Trussell, PhD, and Elizabeth G. Raymond, MD, MPH

Emergency Contraception: A Practitioner's Guide from Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

Emergency contraception: dispelling the myths and misperceptions from the World Health Organization

Emergency Contraception Prevents Fertilization, Not Implantation, Studies Show from the Population Council

Emergency Contraception Without Prescription: Change in Access to Teenage Women From Medscape

Emergency Contraceptive Pills, Second Edition, a Training Manual from Pathfinder International

EC in the ER Policy Toolkit: Contact the Education Fund’s MergerWatch Project at info@mergerwatch.org, or (518) 436-8408 ext 214

Facts About Emergency Contraception (Also available in Spanish)  

ICEC Panel in Dakar - Presentations from International Consortium for Emergency Contraception (ICEC)

Introducing EC: A Framework from International Consortium for Emergency Contraception

The Lancet series – Sexual and Reproductive Health (free registration required)

Limited Success: One Year of Access to Emergency Contraception (PDF) from the National Organization for Women Foundation

More U.S. Women Using 'Morning-After' Pill: Study from MedScape

Online Emergency Contraception (EC) Training Program for pharmacists and health care professionals in the US

Pharmacists' Attitudes and Awareness of Emergency Contraception for Adolescents from Advocates for Youth

Pharmacy Refusal Toolkit, Protecting Women’s Rights at the Pharmacy Counter: Advocacy Strategies from States and Localities (PDF) from MergerWatch

Preventing Unplanned Pregnancy: The Continued Need for Clinical Education about Emergency Contraception 

Providers’ Perspectives: Perceived Barriers to Contraceptive Use in Youth and Young Adults, a report from the ARHP and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy

Safety of levonorgestrel-alone emergency contraceptive pills from WHO

Scientific evidence confirms once again that levonorgestrel emergency contraception does not interfere with implantation from The International Consortium for Emergency Contraception (ICEC) and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO)

State Policies in Brief: Emergency Contraception from Guttmacher

Teens and Emergency Contraceptive Pills: Issues for Health Care Providers & Educators from Advocates for Youth

The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States from Rutgers Press

Topics In Brief from The Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention

Update on Emergency Contraception Clinincal Proceedings 

What You Need to Know fact sheets: The Difference Between Medical Abortion and Emergency Contraceptive Pills 

What You Need to Know fact sheets: The Facts About Emergency Contraception  

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