The morning after pill may seem like a relatively new drug, but the main ingredient in it—levonorgestrel—is the same form of progestin found in other forms of birth control, like the IUD.

But anti-abortion advocates are wrong about what the morning-after pill does — as are abortion-rights proponents, the National Institutes of Health, the Mayo Clinic, and Plan B's label ...

1. The morning-after pill is made of progesterone. This is one of the hormones found in birth control pills. But, it's in a much higher dose in the morning-after pill.

Morning-after pills such as Plan B One-Step can lower a woman's chances of getting pregnant by 75-89% if taken within three days of having unprotected sex, according to Planned Parenthood.

Doctor Charis Chambers warned that levonorgestrel morning-after pills — commonly sold as Plan B — has been shown to have decreased efficacy based on both the weight and BMI (body mass index ...

6 Things You Need to Know About the Morning-After Pill Emergency contraception use is on the rise. Read up on it now to be better prepared for a crisis by Casey Gueren Published: Feb 20, 2013 5:54 ...

The morning-after pill is legal across the U.S., even in the states with the strictest abortion bans — but many Americans don’t know that, in part due to a mistaken belief that the pill is ab… ...

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