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Emergency contraception can be used to avoid pregnancy when coitus occurred during the fertile period. It is useful for young people who engage in sporadic unprotected sexual activity but need to avoid pregnancies, unsafe abortion, and all their sequelae [1]. Levonorgestrel (LNG) has only recently been found to be useful as an emergency contraceptive agent and there is still very limited information provided on this regimen in the literature.In this series, 800 healthy women between the ages of 15 and 45 years who had had unprotected sexual intercourse and requested for emergency intervention were advised to use a single 1.5-mg LNG pills if they fulfilled an entry criteria and had no contraindications to the use of hormonal contraceptives.Their meanFS.D. age was 26.2F7.1 years; mean body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters) was 25.6F3.4; and mean menstrual cycle length was 28.4F3.0 days. About 30% of the women had used emergency contraceptives in the past, and more than 50% had had a previous pregnancy that ended in an abortion or a live birth.

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