We only oppose those drugs that cause an abortion. Sandy Trevitchick, manager of the women's clinic at the University of Colorado's Boulder campus, said at least two students request emergency contraception each week. Sometimes it's from sexual assault. Slade said that women are rarely as distressed about taking these pills as they are about getting an abortion. The magnitude of the decision is entirely different.
Older women are less certain.
Sensitivity to alumni concerns has kept nurse practitioners at Stephens College, a women's school in Columbia, Mo., from widely advertising the pills. The alumni were around when there were house mothers in every dorm. They have a different set of moral and ethical standards than students today. Women students who have experienced the pills say it would be foolish to rely on them for birth control. I would never plan on using them again.