Old news

I hang onto things that look useful. This is easier now that shit is digital. Back in the day, it was news clippings, handouts from lectures, whole journals or photocopied bits of them.

I recently ran across an article I clipped from the newspaper while I was living in Ann Arbor. Hence I assume it was from the Ann Arbor News. There's no date but it was definitely between October 1993 and February 1997.

The headline was "Group seeks relabeling of contraceptives - the coaltion wants pills labeled for 'morning after' use."

It begins:
A group of organizations concerned with women's health issues wants the Food and Drug Administration to require relabeling of six brands of oral contraceptives to tell women how to use them as "morning after" pills.
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The petition says six oral contraceptives sold in the United States are proven effective as emergency contraception: Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories' Ovral, Lo/Ovral, Nordette and Triphasil, and Berlex Laboratories Levlen and Tri-Leveln.
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At the very end of the article is this bit of info.
Yet labels don't say how to use them as "morning after" pills: two Ovral pills no later than 72 hours after intercourse and two more 12 hours later, or two four-pill doses of the other brands, the first no later than 72 hours after intercourse and the second 12 hours later.