If a woman begins adminstering Ortho Tri-Cyclen (birth control) with a
Day-1 regimen, do she and her partner need to use an alternate method
of birth control for any initial period of time?  The instructions for
Ortho Tri-Cyclen explicitly state that for a Sunday Start, an
alternate method of birth control should be used though the 7th day of
the first cycle of pills.  No comparable explicit instructions are
stated for a Day-1 Start.

This answer should be pretty straightforward.  Yes/no with a few lines
from a quoted source to back it up.

Thanks,
The Grammaton Cleric

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Clarification of Question by grammatoncleric-ga on 28 Oct 2003 14:38 PST

I just found my own answer:

http://www.ortho-mcneil.com/products/pi/pdfs/cycltri.pdf

"You will not need to use a back-up method of birth control, since you
are starting the pill at the beginning of your period"