If you're not thrilled with the abundance of pink paper hearts
surrounding your desk, this campaign for safe sex offers a
different reason to celebrate February 14. Fittingly, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released two reports
Thursday on contraception use in the United States. The reports
summarize data from the National Survey of Family Growth. One,
"Use of Emergency Contraception Among Women Aged 15-44," is the
first ever published on emergency contraception by the CDC's
National Center for Health Statistics. Here are some of the most
interesting highlights from that report: -- Approximately 11% of
women ages 15 to 44 used emergency contraception between 2006
and 2010, up 7% from 2002 -- Women between the ages of 20 and 24
were most likely to use emergency contraception; about 1 in 4
have done so -- The two most common reasons for using emergency
contraception are fear of birth control failure (45% of users)
and having unprotected sex (49%) -- Use of emergency
contraception increased with