Medical Services

Birth Control

Planned Parenthood of Bucks County offers counseling about sexual decision-making and details about the following methods of birth control:

• Condoms (male and female) and spermicides
• (EC) Emergency Contraception (sometimes referred to as the "morning after pill"). It can prevent pregnancy if taken within 120 hours - 5 days - after unprotected intercourse or an accident.
• Birth control pills
• Depo Provera, an injection that lasts three months to prevent pregnancy
• Prescriptions for the Patch (Ortho-Evra), a skin patch that lasts one week.
• NuvaRing, a flexible ring inserted in the vagina each month to prevent pregnancy
• IUD (Intrauterine Device)
• Diaphragms
• Abstinence