Women's Experiences Of Getting The Morning After Pill: 'I Ran Out Of The Shop Mortified’

Kylie, 32, who lives in Scotland, was 19 and in a relationship with her university boyfriend when she first needed to get the emergency contraceptive pill. “We had sex on the morning of 24 December, but the condom split. I went into town to get the pill. The pharmacist was very rushed and stressed (Christmas Eve, of course), but without being taken into a side-room I was sighed loudly at and exclaimed to: ‘It’s called the morning after pill for a reason.’