What Happens the Morning After? the Costs and Bene_ts of Expanding Access to Emergency Contraception
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What happens the morning after? The costs and benefits of expanding access to emergency contraception.
Emergency contraception (EC) can prevent pregnancy after sex, but only if taken within 72 hours of intercourse. Over the past 15 years, access to EC has been expanded at both the state and federal level. This paper studies the impact of those policies. We find that expanded access to EC has had no statistically significant effect on birth or abortion rates. Expansions of access, however, have c...
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