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 here.

A companion commentary in the WHO Bulletin can be accessed online.