Emergency Contraception
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Emergency Contraception
Emergency contraception, otherwise known as the morning after pill, Plan B, or Preven, is a non-abortion inducing pill that prevents pregnancy after intercourse. Plan B consists of a concentrated dose of birth control pills; it is FDA approved as safe and effective for pregnancy prevention after intercourse. Although this pill has been referred to as abortion inducing, I would like to point out some information that confirms to it being otherwise.
Plan B works by restricting ovulation in a woman, and supporters argue it will prevent unplanned pregnancies and abortion. Opponents, however, say the method also can work after conception, blocking implantation of a tiny embryo in the uterine wall. In such a case, according to prolifers, an abortion would occur. Pro-Lifers seem to think that many women will buy the lie that they are actually preventing pregnancy and construe that all they really are doing is terminating a very early pregnancy, in other words, an abortion.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which supports over-the-counter sale of Plan B, says pregnancy does not begin until the fertilized ovum is implanted in the uterine wall. To pro-lifers, pregnancy begins with the union of a sperm and an egg known as conception. Any contraception prevents this union of sperm and egg from happening, so, therefore are all forms of birth control abortion inducing?..