Emergency contraception is not an easy choice

Several factors influence whether young women choose to use emergency contraception. Free and colleagues (p 1393) carried out in-depth interviews of 30 women aged 16-25. Those women who expressed the strongest desire to avoid pregnancy used emergency contraception if necessary. Women who did not use emergency contraception felt less vulnerable to pregnancy, had negative associations with emergency contraception and the people who used it, or found it difficult to seek or ask for emergency contraception.

"I didn't know where I was supposed to go and if I was allowed . . . because I was young, I was like 14"

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Young women's accounts of factors influencing their use and non-use of emergency contraception: in-depth interview study

Caroline Free, Raymond M Lee, and Jane Ogden
BMJ 2002 325: 1393. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]