The International Consortium for Emergency Contraception (ICEC), World Health Organization (WHO), International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO), and International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) recently collaborated to produce a short, simple statement on the safety of levonorgestrel-alone emergency contraceptive pills, responding directly to articles that appeared in the mainstream media in 2009 and written for non-scientists.
The safety statement can be accessed <link fileadmin user_upload news levonorgestrel-alone_ec_safety_statement_who.pdf>here.
A companion commentary in the WHO Bulletin can be accessed online.