What is the advantage or disadvantage of the availability of ECP as over the counter medicine?
The major concern with the availability of over the counter emergency contraceptive pills is the misuse of the ECP because of lack of knowledge and lack of sex education and this would slowly replace the use of condoms leading to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS, herpes etc. and that too in a younger population between 18-24 years of age.The biggest advantage of the ECP in India is to prevent unwanted pregnancies and therefore prevent termination of pregnancy under unhygienic and unsafe conditions.
