Do you watch the television show “ER”? During an episode in 1997, Nurse Hathaway (Carol) offered the option of emergency contraception pills to a young woman who had just been forced to have sex against her will. It’s possible that between 5 and 6 million people learned about emergency contraception that day.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, almost 3 million unintended pregnancies happen each year in the United States. You can imagine why — a condom tears, a diaphragm slips out of position, a woman misses two birth control pills in a row. Or, a couple has…
