Abstract
In industrialized countries over half of pregnancies are unplanned. Some 60% of the first sexual exposures among youngsters are unprotected, whereas some 40% of subsequent coitus are insufficiently protected1. In view of the medical, social, psychological and financial hazards of induced abortion, it has become evident that these procedures, while offering possible solutions, are certainly far from being ideal2. Post-coital contraception (PCC) in women was developed in the 1960s in the USA when Morris and Van Wagenen6 started using diethylstilboestrol and in Europe when Haspels4,5 started using ethinyloestradiol (EO) at high dosage. This has resulted in important social implications, in that post-coital contraceptive services have been offered to women in the Netherlands from the 1960s onwards. In some countries, e. g. Sweden, PCC is not yet commonly used, and thus the rate of induced abortion is high (see Table 1).
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Haspels, A.A., Van Santen, M.R. (1985). New aspects in post-coital contraception. In: Runnebaum, B., Rabe, T., Kiesel, L. (eds) Future Aspects in Contraception. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4916-4_10
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