If you look over to the blogroll (Right there —–>)
you see a link to a website called Scarleteen. Scarleteen is FABULOUS website to get sex-positive, correct, clearly presented information.
Here’s an excerpt from their page on EC:
The What, the Why, the Where, the When, and the How-to: Emergency contraception (EC) is a method of birth control, in that it is a means to prevent pregnancy before it occurs. Plenty of people — no thanks to a lot of purposefully misleading propaganda — confuse emergency contraception with medical abortion (sometimes called RU486 or M&M, an abbreviation for mifepristone and misoprostol, two medications used for medical abortion), but emergency contraception cannot be used to terminate an existing pregnancy: it can only help prevent one. If a pregnancy has already occurred, EC will not be effective: only a method of abortion can be used to purposefully terminate a pregnancy. Where some of the confusion comes in is that unlike other methods of contraception, EC can be used after intercourse, rather than before.
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