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Over-the-counter emergency contraception in Italy: ethical reflections and medico-legal issues

Although more than ten years have passed since the marketing of Ulipristal acetate in Europe, emergency contraception remains a complex issue with many scientific, legal, ethical and social implications. The topic is an example of the differences that can exist between scientific evidence, the certa...

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Autores principales: Scendoni, Roberto, Cingolani, Mariano, Cembriani, Fabio, Fedeli, Piergiorgio, Tambone, Vittoradolfo, Terranova, Corrado, De Micco, Francesco
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10544570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37790088
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2023.1205208
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author Scendoni, Roberto
Cingolani, Mariano
Cembriani, Fabio
Fedeli, Piergiorgio
Tambone, Vittoradolfo
Terranova, Corrado
De Micco, Francesco
author_facet Scendoni, Roberto
Cingolani, Mariano
Cembriani, Fabio
Fedeli, Piergiorgio
Tambone, Vittoradolfo
Terranova, Corrado
De Micco, Francesco
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description Although more than ten years have passed since the marketing of Ulipristal acetate in Europe, emergency contraception remains a complex issue with many scientific, legal, ethical and social implications. The topic is an example of the differences that can exist between scientific evidence, the certainties on which law is based, and social implications. This paper shows the incompleteness of the scientific reconstruction on the effects of emergency hormonal contraceptives and the dangerousness of the decision to alienate the supply of over-the-counter drugs from the general rules of health care. This report shows the incompleteness of the scientific reconstruction on the effects of emergency hormonal contraceptives and the dangerousness of the decision to alienate the supply of over-the-counter drugs from the general rules of health care. Various ethical and medico-legal issues will be addressed, also focusing attention on underage women whose sexual and reproductive health requires not abandoning them, but actually taking charge of them without medicalizing their choices.
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spelling pubmed-105445702023-10-03 Over-the-counter emergency contraception in Italy: ethical reflections and medico-legal issues Scendoni, Roberto Cingolani, Mariano Cembriani, Fabio Fedeli, Piergiorgio Tambone, Vittoradolfo Terranova, Corrado De Micco, Francesco Front Glob Womens Health Global Women's Health Although more than ten years have passed since the marketing of Ulipristal acetate in Europe, emergency contraception remains a complex issue with many scientific, legal, ethical and social implications. The topic is an example of the differences that can exist between scientific evidence, the certainties on which law is based, and social implications. This paper shows the incompleteness of the scientific reconstruction on the effects of emergency hormonal contraceptives and the dangerousness of the decision to alienate the supply of over-the-counter drugs from the general rules of health care. This report shows the incompleteness of the scientific reconstruction on the effects of emergency hormonal contraceptives and the dangerousness of the decision to alienate the supply of over-the-counter drugs from the general rules of health care. Various ethical and medico-legal issues will be addressed, also focusing attention on underage women whose sexual and reproductive health requires not abandoning them, but actually taking charge of them without medicalizing their choices. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10544570/ /pubmed/37790088 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2023.1205208 Text en © 2023 Scendoni, Cingolani, Cembriani, Fedeli, Tambone, Terranova and De Micco. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Cembriani, Fabio
Fedeli, Piergiorgio
Tambone, Vittoradolfo
Terranova, Corrado
De Micco, Francesco
Over-the-counter emergency contraception in Italy: ethical reflections and medico-legal issues
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10544570/
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