Emergency Contraception, such as Plan B, has not lowered abortion rates.

An emergency contraception study in 2007 showed that increased access to “emergency contraception”, such as Plan B, hasn’t lowered abortion or unintended pregnancy rates. As the material shows, the study’s authors were not emergency contraception opponents, but among its foremost proponents, and had previously predicted that increased access to EC would lower unintended pregnancy and abortion rates. The study provided the following information: (click here to view the entire study)

  1. The syllabus for Raymond, Trussell, and Polis, “Population Effects of Increased Access to Emergency Contraceptive Pills: A Systematic Review”, Obstetrics & Gynecology 2007; 109: 181-188 in which the authors reviewed the scientific literature on the effect of increased use of “emergency contraception” and concluded that “no study found an effect on pregnancy or abortion rates”;
  2. A January 8, 2007 Washington Times article, “EC pill use doesn’t lower abortion rates”, on the Obstetrics & Gynecology study;
  3. The syllabus of a 2002 Annuals of Internal Medicine study co-authored by Elizabeth G. Raymond, one of the authors of the 2007 Obstetrics & Gynecology study, which had predicted that “easier access to and wider use of emergency contraception could dramatically lower the high rates of unintended pregnancy and induced abortion in the United States”;
  4. A 1998 cnn.com article in which James Trussell, one of the authors of the 2007 Obstetrics & Gynecology study, stated that “We decided that making emergency contraception widely available was the most important step we could take in the United States to reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancies".
   
 

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