Emergency contraception for young women under the age of 16 years. Good or bad?
Emegergency contraception is free in Scotland.
- Levonelle is available free of charge without a prescription. You can get it from most pharmacies and also from your GP or sexual health clinic. There is specific guidance for Pharmacists
- ellaOne is free of charge, but you will need a prescription from your GP or sexual health clinic.
- IUD’s need to be fitted by a trained doctor or nurse and this can be done at your GP’s, local GUM or Sexual Health Clinic.
Sources: Sexual Health Scotland (2018), Community Pharmacy (2017)
It is proposed that relatively easy access to emergency contraception will increase the risk of young women having casual unprotected sex