Conservatives claim "morning after" is "abortive"

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Based on the belief that a fertilized egg is a person, some religious groups and conservative politicians say disrupting a fertilized egg’s ability to attach to the uterus is abortion, “the moral equivalent of homicide,” as Dr. Donna Harrison, who directs research for the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, put it.


Mitt Romney
recently called emergency contraceptives “abortive pills.”


And two former Republican presidential candidates, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, have made similar statements.



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/h...ience-suggests.html?google_editors_picks=true
 
there are two different types of "morning after" pills.....one is ineffective if the fertilized egg has attached to the uterine wall......the other is abortive and will kill the zygote......
 
Bringing me up in threads I haven't posted in = obsession. Just sayin'.

What is that...3 times today? 4?
 
The morning after pill kicks *ss. They need to hand those out at bars like restaurants do mints.
 
Looks like the AssWipe doesn't know he difference between abortion and contraception....

figures....

Poor AssWipe
 
LOL...PMP said he doesn't talk to legion until the weekend....

where is onceler to claim - obsession?

did you notice how little was going on last night?.....it's like all the board liberals were in hiding because of Wisconsin......I was bored.....
 
No surprise that the misogynists apparently didn't read the linked article, which says:


The notion that morning-after pills prevent eggs from implanting stems from the Food and Drug Administration’s decision during the drug-approval process to mention that possibility on the label — despite lack of scientific proof...


Experts say implantation was likely placed on the label partly because daily birth control pills, some of which contain Plan B’s active ingredient, appear to alter the endometrium, the lining of the uterus into which fertilized eggs implant.


Altering the endometrium has not been proven to interfere with implantation.


But in any case, scientists say that unlike the accumulating doses of daily birth control pills, the one-shot dose in morning-after pills does not have time to affect the uterine lining.


Studies have not established that emergency contraceptive pills prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the womb, leading scientists say.


Rather, the pills delay ovulation, the release of eggs from ovaries that occurs before eggs are fertilized, and some pills also thicken cervical mucus so sperm have trouble swimming.


It turns out that the politically charged debate over morning-after pills and abortion, a divisive issue in this election year, is probably rooted in outdated or incorrect scientific guesses about how the pills work.


Because they block creation of fertilized eggs, they would not meet abortion opponents’ definition of abortion-inducing drugs.


Later, in 2007, 2009 and 2010, researchers gave Plan B to women after determining with hormone tests which women had ovulated and which had not.


None who took the drug before ovulation became pregnant, underscoring how Plan B delays ovulation.


Women who had ovulated became pregnant at the same rate as if they had taken no drug at all.


In those cases, there were no difficulties with implantation...




http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/h...l?pagewanted=3&google_editors_picks=true&_r=1
 
Rather, the pills delay ovulation, the release of eggs from ovaries that occurs before eggs are fertilized, and some pills also thicken cervical mucus so sperm have trouble swimming.

correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this rather limit the effectiveness of their use as a morning AFTER pill?.....
 
If you believe life begins at conception, then many birth control pills are deemed abortive. This is nothing new - it's been the position of the Church for decades.
 
Apparently not. Are you saying you don't believe it?

I do not believe that is why this drug is used as a morning after pill......if it's use is only to prevent eggs from being fertilized AFTER taking the pill it isn't going to be effective in dealing with eggs previously fertilized.....
 
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