This procedure was a staple of the college student health service in the mid to late seventies. At that time, the drug used was the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) 25 mg taken for three days. Nausea was the common and only side effect.

Because DES was associated with the DES babies, mothers who were given DES to prevent real or imaginery miscarriages from 1947 until the late 1950ies had daughters who got cancers of the uterus in their twenties, this drug was taken off the market shortly after.

The Salon article does not name the current drug levonorgestrel 0.75 mg as the progesterone only alternative provided by the website mentioned in the article.

Other variations exist as combination of estrogen and progesterone.

Any high dose of female hormones administered the next day and possibly for two more days would do the same thing.

In New Zealand a whole month's worth of birth control pills are used on the morning after and another packet is used the next day.

There is very little mystery or danger involved with the process unless a woman is ill with certain severe chronic illnesses.

Come again? Whose Jennifer fixation?

Can we get some articles worth reading here at Salon?

Man of the year at GQ indeed. Yawn. All that column space down the drain. An article so boring that Jennifer herself probably would fall asleep reading it.

No intergenerational hostility please.

Old fogies like me did not buy into the stupidity of the plot and we are not quaking in our boots worrying about gamers killing us for "points."

I kept asking "Why not get someone who is good at this game so the we don't get to watch the cop gamer who is wasting time stuck at level 2?"

That was as lame as some of the pithy comebacks of Horatio Caine which passes for precise dialogue on that show. But not as lame as the "girl" gamer who did it to impress boys, or was it guys she called them?

Come on...

I reject saving people as an impossible goal with dubious rewards and even more dubious underlying motivations.

Felicia has to save herself someday by deciding that she is responsible for herself and no one else. She cannot save herself yet she deludes herself that she is saving her boyfriend who abuses her. Delusional behavior and a power trip. She is important to someone on earth besides Martha whom she does not understand but uses shamelessly.

While Martha has done lots of good, Felicia's life is still a mess and continues to spiral down. There is a void where Felicia herself needs to be in charge.

With all the free opportunities she had in the past, (including people who took her in and cared for her when her dad died) this is who she has chosen to become.

She is her very own victim. You could save her again, get her an apartment, a new exciting Martha, a job, and a live in nanny to oversee her eating habits and drug use and she would run away to be with that crazy boyfriend so she could feel powerful and needed and have a life saving someone else.

You cannot help people. And society is not guilty for Felicia's mess. Nor is society the "proud parent" of the many children who manage to save themselves and turn their unfortunate lives around.

This story is not an indulgence of a mediocre author by Salon as some comments here had led me to think.

It is a published story we have the privilege of reading before the anthology comes out on paper.

It is a dubious privilege, more like being served up the repellent details of an emotional discharge, including an imagined future biopsy when the child is excised away from her by a competing younger mate of preferably of the same sex.

I think to avoid this woman's published emotional detritus is the way to go. Obviously, she is well liked enough by enough editors to get published regularly.

Is there an editor in the house?

This article says the same thing over and over and over and then once more for emphasis, just in case we did not get how smart she is to have caught on from such a subtle or is it not subtle hint of mutilation.

So she suspected this was a hoax, and still listened and played along. And she does not know why she did this but she did it and she suspected all along that... AAARGH

This is why we pay to read Salon. Brilliant writing like this you don't find just anywhere. No one else has the column inches to waste on this level of poor writing.

Jesse found the link he was looking for yesterday, and you can read nine dense pages of speculation about who, where, when, and why might have created this JT Leroy hoax to make some money and get some fame and buzz.

Now I know more than I ever had wanted about this non-person, fictitious entity who occasionally took human form using a model of indeterminate sexuality dressed in a blonde wig and sunglasses and hat and red lipstick.

Really boring stuff this, especially when disclosed this exhaustively by an good investigative journalist in New York magazine.

Yes, he could and would.

This is a translation and he is not using noteworthy per se but in Arabic (a great language with a rich vocabulary many abstract philosophical concepts) there are many expressions that say "deserving of attention" "deserving of memory."

What do people think Bin Ladin is? An illiterate perhaps who only grunts. What is so spectacular about using noteworthy?