Cuba Invests in “Morning-After-Pills”

Cuban university students. Photo: Caridad

HAVANA TIMES, Nov. 3 – Cuba’s health authorities will try to reduce the number of abortions, estimated at 85,000 a year, through the use of Levonorgestrel or “morning-after-pills”, reported IPS.

For starters 225,000 doses a year will begin being produced, announced Miguel Sosa, president of the Sexual Health and Family Planning Committee.

Cuba is the only country in Latin America where women have freedom of choice and abortions are carried out with no restrictions.

Eighty percent of Cuba’s fertile age women are sexually active and three fourths of those use contraceptives, noted IPS.

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