Unprotected Sex: Pregnancy Isn't the Price

Teen Voices' latest issue features the article, "A Hope For The Future," that informs teens about emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs), commonly referred to as "the morning after pill." The medical community has known that ECPs prevent pregnancy for decades, but this option is relatively unknown to young women in America. The article educates teens about the morning-after-pill by outlining where and how they can obtain ECPs.

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June 1, 2001

Unprotected Sex: Pregnancy Isn't the Price

Boston, Mass - Teen Voices' latest issue features the article, "A Hope For The Future," that informs teens about emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs),commonly referred to as "the morning after pill." The medical community has known that ECPs prevent pregnancy for decades, but this option is relatively unknown to young women in America.

The article educates teens about the morning-after-pill by outlining where and how they can obtain ECPs."Teen Voices is one of the few magazines that dares to inform teenagers that they don't have to get pregnant from
unprotected sex, rape or incest," says editor and founder Alison Amoroso, who has a Master's Degree in Counseling from Harvard University.

Abbey Floyd, 19-years-old and from Mississippi, shares her story with Teen Voices, recounting the time she faced a pregnancy scare after the condom
broke while she (then 15) and her boyfriend were having sex. "I remember how scared I was and how rejected I felt when the people I was supposed to turn to gave me a lecture rather than, solid, informative advice," Floyd writes.

Eighty percent of teen pregnancies are unintended each year and one in 10 young women aged 15-19 become pregnant. However, widespread use of ECPs
could prevent an estimated 1.7 million unintended pregnancies and 800,000 abortions each year, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

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