Medical Student
Georgetown School of Medicine
 |
| This post was peer reviewed. Click to learn more. |
Between the years 2006 and 2010 11% of women reported using emergency contraception at some point in their life; of those, 59% used emergency contraception once and almost a quarter used it twice.[2] Emergency contraception is any contraceptive method used after unprotected intercourse or contraceptive failure and before embryo implantation. Examples of indications for use are condom breaks or leaks, failure to use additional contraceptives when starting hormonal contraception, or non-consensual sex and sexual assault. In a study of one pediatric emergency department, 88% of patients who presented for emergency contraception had done so after sexual assault.[5]
