<\/span><\/p>\n Emergency contraceptive medications are not yet available Question #6 Emergency contraceptive medications are not yet available over-the-counter. However, after two decades of promotion in the United States and many more decades in Europe and Asia, these methods have been proven to be very safe. Of course, the cost of preventing unplanned pregnancies and avoiding surgical abortions adds significantly to the value….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1539,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1552","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552\/revisions\/1554"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nover-the-counter. <\/span>However, after two
\ndecades of promotion in the United States and many more decades in Europe and
\nAsia, these methods have been proven to be very safe. <\/span>Of course, the cost of preventing unplanned pregnancies and
\navoiding surgical abortions adds significantly to the value of making these
\nmethods widely available without prescription.
\n<\/span>Because this is not yet possible in the United States, physicians should
\nconsider giving sexually active females a supply of emergency contraceptives in
\nthe event their primary form of contraception fails.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"