New Warnings Regarding Internet Contraception
By: Julie Musgrave
Updated: August 11, 2009
Folks at the local Planned Parenthood are warning against what they call Internet Contraception.
Tony Thornton with Planned Parenthood tells us they're having to warn more and more patients these days about the dangers of looking to the internet for abortion and contraception options.
Thornton says many of these are young people who are scared, or may want to keep an unwanted pregnancy a secret. Some are even ordering unregulated abortion pills on-line, and having them shipped here.
Tony Thornton, Planned Parenthood: "The bottom line is, you don't know what's in the pill. Or how it's manufactured, or under what conditions it's manufactured, and it may be perfectly safe, but it bothers me that we don't know what's in them." Thornton says pills ordered online aren't tested by the Food and Drug Administration, and anything dealing with contraception should be done with a doctor's supervision.
