morning-after pill en · NOUN
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A contraceptive in the form of a pill taken shortly after sexual intercourse.
These policy efforts confuse the public into thinking that the morning-after pill, which is simply a super-dose of the regular pill, is the same as mifepristone, the abortion pill.
2010 October 12, Faith Agostinone-Wilson, Marxism and Education Beyond Identity: Sexuality and Schooling, Palgrave Macmillan, page 172:A federal judge on Friday ordered that the most common morning-after pill be made available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and younger.
2013 April 15, Pam Belluck, “Judge Strikes Down Age Limits on Morning-After Pill”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2020:Dr. Morris and his colleagues have reported on one experimental compound designed specifically to be a morning-after pill.
1967 October 7, “Estrogens' Double Life”, in Science News, volume 92, number 15, →JSTOR, page 343:Even after a girl has sex, it's not too late to prevent her from dropping an egg. That's what the morning-after pill does.
2013 March 5, Bronwen Pardes, Doing It Right: Making Smart, Safe, and Satisfying Choices About Sex, →ISBN:
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it pillola del giorno dopo (type of contraceptive pill) · tr ertesi gün hapı (type of contraceptive pill) · fr pilule du lendemain (type of contraceptive pill) · es píldora del día después (type of contraceptive pill) · pt pílula do dia seguinte (type of contraceptive pill) · sv dagen efter-piller (type of contraceptive pill) · nl noodpil (type of contraceptive pill) · gl pílula do día seguinte (type of contraceptive pill) · sw kidonge cha asubuhi (type of contraceptive pill) · pl pigułka dzień po (type of contraceptive pill) · de Pille danach (type of contraceptive pill) · nb angrepille (type of contraceptive pill) · hu esemény utáni tabletta (type of contraceptive pill) · nn angrepille (type of contraceptive pill) · el χάπι της επόμενης ημέρας (type of contraceptive pill) · yue 事後丸 /事后丸 (type of contraceptive pill) · nl morning-afterpil (type of contraceptive pill) · fi katumuspilleri (type of contraceptive pill) · sv akut-p-piller (type of contraceptive pill)