Why are so many people against emergency contraception?
Many people think that emergency contraception (morning after pill, day after pill, day after contraception, post-coital contraception) is wrong from a moral, ethical, religious, and family point of view. There are many religious that believe that having intercourse should only be between husband and wife and procreation is its sole and only purpose. Anything beyond this they consider immoral and inappropriate. This not only is the belief for emergency contraception, but all forms of contraception. Despite studies showing no evidence of people there being an increase in the frequency of intercourse or the incidence of Sexually Transmitted Disease, there is the popular belief that contraception promotes promiscuity. There is no evidence of the number of times women have sex increase due to them having access to Emergency Contraception or other forms of contraception. Emergency Contraception does not prevent Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD). Women and men are taught that abstinence and
