0 any method of contraception (= a way of preventing a woman from becoming pregnant) that can be used a short time after the woman has had sex:
The emergency contraception can be taken in one of two forms: birth control pills in two doses, one within 72 hours of intercourse and the second 12 hours later; or an IUD used within five days.
The Student Health Centre offers emergency contraception in the form of the morning-after pill.
"If most women had emergency contraception in their medicine cabinet, we could cut the rate of unintended pregnancy in half," she said.
