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>>I can see people not taking Plan B because of the side effects and chancing it.>>
Plan B is just an existing birth control pill women have been taking for years. It's just marketed with a new Name and packaged in a handy 4-pack. It doesn't have any more side effects than when used as a birth control pill, which is few a far between. That whole myth that birth control pills have lots of side effects is left over from half a century ago before the formulations were refined. Taking Plan B may cause a stomach ache sincef you take 2 at once, followed by 2 12 hours later, conparable to taking a big vitamin pill on an empty stomach. Most bottles say not to take vitamin pills on an empty stomach, but they don't get a rep for having "side effects". No big deal. Antis like to spread false myths of side effects to scare women from using birth control pills and Plan B.
