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oral contraceptive [′ȯr·əl ‚kän·trə′sep·tiv] (pharmacology) Any medication taken by mouth that renders a woman nonfertile as long as the medication is continued. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Plan B contains the hormone levonorgestrel, the same hormone that's in birth control pills but in a larger dose. If a country like Brazil cannot effectively pass out birth control pills, how does Sillycon believe that abortion (which I think costs a lot more than the pills) will remedy the situation? One week after the federal announcement, its provincial health agency permitted school nurses to prescribe it and other birth control pills to girls as young as 14, without consent of their parents. |
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