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Hobby Lobby that under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), closely held for-profit corporations are exempt from the contraceptive mandate, if they object on religious grounds, because the accommodation offered to objecting non-profits would be a less restrictive way to achieve the ACA's interest. Justice Anthony Kennedy, one of the ...
In March 2022, Boston University unveiled its contraceptive vending machine which offers the morning-after pill for $7.25. [4]. Lastly, Hamilton College implemented a Sexual Health Vending Machine onto their campus which offers emergency contraception for $10. [5]
In 1997, the FDA approved a prescription emergency contraception pill (known as the morning-after pill), which became available over the counter in 2006. [53] In 2010, ulipristal acetate, an emergency contraceptive which is more effective after a longer delay was approved for use up to five days after unprotected sexual intercourse. [54]
Levonorgestrel emergency contraception has an efficiency rate of 89% if it's used correctly within 72 hours after unprotected intercourse. That means 11 out of 100 people who use it after ...
Typically, the Yuzpe regimen uses several doses of combined oral contraceptive pills. It may be preferred in locations where other forms of emergency contraception are unavailable or accessing emergency contraception carries a societal stigma. In these places, people often self-administer combined oral contraceptives as emergency contraception. [1]
[37] By 2005, in at least a dozen U.S. states, pharmacists had cited their personal morality in their refusal to fill prescriptions for birth control, including "emergency contraception" to prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. [38] On July 8, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled in Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul ...
Unprotected sex on New Year’s Eve may be driving a spike in sales of emergency contraception after the holiday, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. In the study ...
This week a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law that requires minors in the state to get parental permission to access contraception through a federally funded family planning program known ...