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Posted on: 06/18/2007
Question
If you take the morning after pill, and then have sex, will it protect you from getting pregnant?
Answer
If you take it and have sex within an hour or so it will. If you are doing this very often then you should think about going on a regular birth control pill as then are more reliable then the morning after pill.