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GREAT SEXPECTATIONS: I took the morning after pill and now I feel so ashamed

By 2023-10-30T08:30:00

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In our fortnightly column ‘Great Sexpectations’ the Woman Alive panel answer your questions on sex, faith and intimacy. Drop us a confidential email on womanalive@premier.org.uk and ask us anything. Here, we address a question about taking the morning after pill.

Dear Woman Alive,

I’ve been with my boyfriend for a few months and we did agree that we would try not to have sex before marriage. We found the temptation too much and a few times we had sex. Once we did it without any protection. I don’t know if I could have been pregnant, it was too early to take a test, but I knew I wasn’t in the place to have a baby. So I went and took the morning after pill. I feel so guilty, like I might have taken a life. Now I don’t know what to do.

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