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of maternal health outcomes.22 This underlies the importance of focusing on maternal morbidity outcomes to capture the full weight of reform impacts. 5 Discussion and Conclusion In this study we examine the impact of the EC pill on a number of women’s health outcomes. To do so, we consider the case of a municipal-rollout in EC pill availability in Chile’s public health system. This is an illustrative case, given that unlike a number of other studies of the rollout of the EC pill, in the entire period under study abortion was illegal. This work is the first to our knowledge which has full measures of both the intensity of usage of the EC pill as well as a measure of unfulfilled requests, in a setting where there is a sharp expansion in the availability of the EC pill. We document that in this case, the availability of the EC pill can have appreciable impacts on women’s health outcomes, and in particular observe that a higher intensity of EC pill disbursement is associated with reductions in rates of haemorrhage early in pregnancy, and abortion morbidity. These results are at odds with a number of previous evaluations of the impact of the EC pill, which often find no, or small, impacts at the population level. We have conducted several robustness checks which indicate that these results are not an artifact/spurious, but that, in Chile during the period we study, the municipal rollout and usage of the EC pill indeed had beneficial effects on maternal morbidity. A potential explanation of these divergent results owes to context. Unlike previous studies often based in the UK and US, this study examines a setting were abortion was entirely illegal. Thus, a potential explanation of these results is that growing EC pill availability reduced the need to be exposed to the health risks inherent in clandestine abortion.23 Our 22The magnitudes in Chile are small.