The Morning-After Pill Wasn’t Meant to Be a ‘Plan B’. What Happened?

November 11, 2019

(Vice) – Once something traumatic happens to you, it’s easy to go fling yourself down a rabbit hole, trying to understand it from every angle. When I used the morning-after pill once and it didn’t work, I wanted to know why. So I interviewed researchers, experts, campaigners and academics and uncovered a bigger story altogether: the way that we use the morning-after pill (MAP) in its current form is very far away from its intended purpose. It was, in fact, meant to be used as a regular form of contraception, not just “for emergencies”.