Harm reduction or women's rights? Debating access to emergency contraceptive pills in Canada and the United States.

Abstract:

:This article compares the ethical pivot points in debates over nonprescription access to emergency contraceptive pills in Canada and the United States. These include women's right to be informed about the contraceptive method and its mechanism of action, pharmacists' conscientious objection concerning the dispensing of emergency contraceptive pills, and rights and equality of access to the method, especially for poor women and minorities. In both countries, arguments in support of expanding access to the pills were shaped by two competing orientations toward health and sexuality. The first, "harm reduction," promotes emergency contraception as attenuating the public health risks entailed in sex. The second orientation regards access to pills as a question of women's right to engage in nonprocreative sex and to choose from among all reproductive health-care options. The authors contend that arguments for expanding access to emergency contraceptive pills that frame issues in terms of health and science are insufficient bases for drug regulation; ultimately, women's health is also a matter of women's rights.

journal_name

Stud Fam Plann

authors

Wynn LL,Erdman JN,Foster AM,Trussell J

doi

10.1111/j.1728-4465.2007.00138.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-12-01 00:00:00

pages

253-67

issue

4

eissn

0039-3665

issn

1728-4465

journal_volume

38

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