AfterPill.com Importance Grows Given New CDC Warning on Unprotected Sex Risks

WESTPORT, Conn., Feb. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AfterPill.com is reporting that this week's Centers for Disease Control decision to recommend alcohol abstinence for all women who are at risk of unintended pregnancy impacts 43 million women in the U.S. each year and raises the risks of unprotected sex in particular.  

According to the Guttmacher Institute, there are 43 million women in the U.S., 70% of women of child-bearing age, who have sex without the intention of becoming pregnant.  Despite those intentions, one-half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned and 95% occur due to unprotected sex (no birth control method or improper condom or birth control use or failure). 

The CDC recommendation is based on a growing medical concern regarding the risk of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder (FASD).  In a report released last October, the American Academy of Pediatrics declared that "no amount of alcohol should be considered safe to drink during any trimester of pregnancy."  Over 50% of non-pregnant women of child bearing age in the U.S. use alcohol.

"The new CDC recommendation strongly suggests that if you drink alcohol, all pregnancies should be planned and unprotected sex should never occur," says John Linderman, Managing Director of Syzygy Healthcare, the makers of the AfterPill™ brand of emergency contraception.  "To reduce unprotected sex, emergency contraception should be affordable and readily available to all women," he added.  "In fact, the World Health Organization, Planned Parenthood, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and many others suggest women keep emergency contraception on hand in the event of birth control failure or unprotected sex to increase its effectiveness and likelihood of use."

"At www.AfterPill.com we help reduce the incidence of unprotected sex by making emergency contraception more affordable with savings up to 60% off the national retail brands," Linderman commented.  AfterPill.com provides 100% availability and unrestricted access to the best-selling and #1 doctor-recommended emergency contraception medicine for $20 plus shipping, helping to make emergency birth control more affordable and available for women.

About AfterPill™

AfterPill™ is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized over-the-counter emergency contraceptive (1.5 mg levonorgestrel) tablet made in the U.S. for use by women ages 17 and older.  The dramatically lower price of AfterPill™ is intended to make emergency birth control more affordable and to encourage advance purchase so it is more quickly available in the event of unprotected sex or if birth control failure occurs. The sooner a woman takes a levonorgestrel-based emergency contraceptive, the more effective it is at preventing pregnancy, and research has shown it to be most effective within the first 12 hours. 

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