I was researching my sermon for this week, titled “Which Sexual Revolution?”, when I stumbled across The Emergency Contraception Web Site:

There are nearly two-dozen brands of pills that can be used for emergency contraception in the United States today. Plan B, which contains just the hormone progestin, is the only product specifically approved and marketed here as an emergency contraceptive pill. You can also use a different dose of a number of brands of regular birth control pills [emphasis mine]. While these are not sold specifically as emergency contraceptive pills, they have been proven safe and effective for preventing pregnancy in the few days after sex.

The site goes on to give a table showing brands of birth control pills, timetable, and recommended doses, in order to provide effective emergency contraception.

Given how difficult it can be to obtain over-the-counter emergency contraception here in the United States — when pharmacists may refuse to provide emergency contraception for “moral reasons” (translation: religious reasons) — this is information that every sexually active heterosexual person should have. For that matter, this is information that should be available anywhere in the world.

What will you do if the condom breaks, and you don’t have the financial resources to welcome a new child into the world?