EC access for teens
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Pediatricians should "help ensure that all adolescents have knowledge of and access to contraception," including emergency contraception, a clinical report by Jonathan Klein, MD, and the American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Adolescence states in the July Pediatrics. The report also recommends folic acid supplementation "for all women of childbearing age who are capable of becoming pregnant, especially sexually active women who do not plan to use effective contraception or abstain from sexual intercourse"...