Everything You Need To Know About Plan B

Wondering what the difference between the abortion pill and Plan B is? Not sure if it’s too late to take Plan B? Want to know what to expect after taking it? Concerned that taking Plan B will affect your long-term fertility? You’re not alone.

Imagine this: it’s a Friday or Saturday night and after a great time out, you’re having sex and the condom breaks, or you had sex without a condom because you were out of condoms, or just didn’t feel like using one. Or maybe you’ve been assaulted and you are worried that you might be pregnant from your assailant.

None of these are great situations, but there is a solution; emergency contraceptive pills.

Emergency contraceptive pills are hormonal medications that contain Levonorgestrel. The most popularly known brand is Plan B, but there are a whole slew of other brands that contain Levonorgestrel and do the same job. Plan B is often used to talk about emergency contraceptive pills in general, similarly to how Kleenex is used when talking about tissues and Chapstick is used when talking about lip balm. To keep this conversation from getting clunky, we’ll use Plan B to refer to emergency contraceptive pills in general.

Key differences between Plan B & abortion pills: