Morning-After Pill Gets Its Own Holiday Ad Campaign in U.K.

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The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) meant to be cute and provocative with its bawdy Christmas-themed campaign urging women to stock up on the morning-after pill to go along with their post-coital Harvey Nichols dresses. But they went outside the goalposts a bit. The poster comes off as though it was put together in 8th-grade study hall, complete with giggling. And I didn't need the images that their URL, santacomes.org, put in my head. But while it's immature, I wouldn't go so far as to call it "incredibly vulgar," which was the response from the U.K.'s

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