It was the Spanish Minister of Health who announced it to her compatriots: from now on, there will no longer be a need for a prescription to obtain the “morning after pill” in Spain. This will be sold in all pharmacies in the country, not so that it is used as an additional method of contraception but “as an emergency contraceptive method to be used only in an emergency” stressed the Minister.
Between 1998 and 2007, according to the latest figures from the Spanish ministry, the number of abortions doubled. It is to reduce this figure that the morning-after pill, which can be used within 72 hours after intercourse, will now be sold without a prescription.
