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Looks like more women are opting for a one-time pill to quell their pregnancy fears and less are taking the necessary safe-sex precautions.

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A new report reveals that as many as 11 percent of U.S. women ages 15-44 who have ever had sexual intercourse have used a “morning after” pill at least once.

According to the first federal report on emergency contraception, that’s about 5.8 million women. A percentage of those women say they feared that their current birth control method failed, but the rest say they had unprotected sex.

The National Center for Health Statistics analysis is based on responses collected through in-person interviews with 12,279 women from 2006-2010. Of those, 10,605 said they were sexually experienced.

The report finds that 23% of sexually experienced women ages 20–24 had ever used emergency contraception, compared with 16% ages 25–29 and 14% ages 15–19. Just 5% of women 30–44 said they had ever used it, which the report notes may be due to it not being approved during their early reproductive years.

The report also shows that emergency contraception was most common among women 20-24, the never married, Hispanic and white women, and the college-educated.

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Plan B should not be used in place of long-term birth control, however. Be safe out there ladies!

SOURCE: USA Today