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THE EFFECT OF THE STATEMENT BY THE COMMITTEE ON SAFETY OF DRUGS CONCERNING ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES CONTAINING OESTROGENS ON THE CONTRACEPTIVE PRACTICES OF WOMEN ATTENDING TWO FAMILY PLANNING CLINICS
Author(s) -
Badaracco Mary,
Vessey Martin P.,
Wiggins Peter
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1973.tb11207.x
Subject(s) - family planning , medicine , family medicine , developed country , gynecology , accidental , unintended pregnancy , statement (logic) , population , obstetrics , research methodology , environmental health , law , physics , acoustics , political science
Summary Following the statement concerning oral contraceptives containing oestrogens by the Committee on Safety of Drugs in December 1969, many women in England and Wales stopped taking oral contraceptives and it seems highly probable that thousands of unintended pregnancies occurred. By contrast, among 1328 women attending family planning clinics at Norwich and High Wycombe, no more than a handful of women discontinued oral contraception, and no accidental pregnancies occurred which could be attributed to the events occurring in December 1969.