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Morning-After Pill

Mathurin Suwanwalaikorn [Mint]

M.3C303 No.8

+What is Morning-After Pill?

Emergency contraception

Effective way to prevent pregnancy after unprotected

intercourse

Can be use up to 5 days after unprotected

intercourse

+How it helps prevent Pregnancy?

It helps to keep woman’s

ovary from releasing an egg

for longer than usual

So, if sperm don’t meet the

egg, that’s mean there will

be no pregnancy

+Not perform function

Morning-after pills doesn’t protect against

STDs or sexual transmitted diseases

Prevent pregnancy only!

+Effects

Nowadays, there have been no reports about

serious effect of using this pills.

Side effects are uncommon, its include -

earlier/later period - breast tenderness -

nausea/vomiting

+Summarize Article

U.S. had been a highest teen birthrate in the developed world, but in recent years it has been dropping rapidly. People said that it was dropping because sex education or expanded abstinence programs, but from previous research, they found that it’s not actually the main reasons.

Melissa Kearney, an associate professor of economics in U.S. believes that one of the biggest reasons why it was dropping so far is because the MTV shows called ’16 And Pregnant’. This show was showing about life of pregnant teens and what it’s look like.

Google data and twitter data were the great evidence that shows how much this MTV works in influencing teenagers who watch it.

She said that teenagers are now getting a huge influence form what they watch. It’s affect how they think, how they behave, including how they going to make life decisions. That’s why this MTV were truly impacts teenager how they think about teenage-pregnancy.

+References

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/emergency-

contraception-morning-after-pill-4363.asp