Morning-after pill has not cut abortion rate, says expert

Giving women the morning-after pill makes no difference to either the pregnancy rate or the abortion rate, a family planning expert says today. Contrary to assumptions, says Anna Glasier, director of the Lothian primary care NHS trust in Edinburgh, several studies - including one that she herself led - have shown that even giving women packets of morning-after pills to keep at home in case they need them does not reduce the proportions having unplanned babies or terminations. .

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