Plan B OTC?

Question

Does the Plan B drug abort a fertilized egg? If so why are the anti-abortion believers not in an uproar about this. I ask out of complete ignorance of how the OTC drug works.

I am pro-choice BTW mostly because the folks that are anti-abortion are the same folks that fight for lower taxes and less social programs for our children. For example, why would President Bush and the right wingers want WIC programs or Head Start Programs cut, (they have been cut) when these programs benefit the very children that they don't want aborted. Quite hyprocritical I think.

Many will say women should not have an abortion for any reason yet the conservative right wingers want their taxes cut to benefit themselves. I don't get it. Will someone please help me to understand?

Answer 1

Differences between the morning-after pill and the abortion pill, which are different drugs:

The morning-after pill prevents pregnancy but has no effect if a woman already is pregnant. Sold under the brand name Plan B, it's a higher-than-normal dose of a hormone found in regular birth-control pills and prevents ovulation or fertilization of an egg. It also may prevent the egg from implanting into the uterus, the medical definition of pregnancy, but recent research suggests that's not likely.

The abortion pill, RU-486 or Mifeprex, can terminate pregnancy up to 49 days after the beginning of the last menstrual cycle. It's a two-pill process. First is Mifeprex, which blocks production of a hormone required to sustain pregnancy. Then a second medicine, misoprostol, to cause contractions and finish the abortion.

The morning after pill is not abortion, I think a lot of people are getting it confused with the Mifeprex pill, which does cause an abortion. It takes time for the embryo to actually be concieved. The morning after pill prevents the sperm from ever coming into contact with the egg at all. If it never comes into contact, there is no life.

I am pro-life, but I don't see the Plan B pill as an abortion, because it's purpose is to totally prevent pregnancy in the first place. I don't believe that women should use this as a regular form of birth control, however. It is dangerous, because the pill has an extremely high dose of hormones, and it does not protect against STDs.

Answer 2

It prevents implantation of the zygote (fertilized egg) into the womb lining. So, in effect it stops the process and prevents an embryo from ever developing.

There is a spectrum of where along the process you define life. That line can be drawn at live birth, point of viability, embryo formation, zygote formation, or when sperm is released.

The people at the latter end of the spectrum don't believe that birth control pills or condoms should be allowed, because nothing should interfere with the sperm finding and impregnating the egg.

The next step up is where the people who oppose this drug draw the line. They say that once the sperm and egg have joined to form a zygote, medicine should not interfere in the process.

Most pro-life people are willing to draw the line at embryo implantation in the womb lining. So, the 'Plan-B' drug that prevents implantation may be immoral, but it's still in the category of contraception and not abortion.

It all depends on where the person draws the line.

Answer 3

I don't know how that drug works. But, the abortion issues needs to be addressed at the state level and not the federal level. Abortion is a moral issue not a political issue and shouldn't be in the hands of Congress. This issue has done nothing but drive a wedge between Americans. It makes more sense for each state to enact laws on abortions as they do marriage.

Answer 4

Plan B prevents fertilization, it has no effect is conception has already taken place.

I am pro-life and fell this is great for plan B to be accessable OTC. I think it should greatly reduce the amount of abortions performed.

Answer 5

Plan B prevents the pregnacy from developing

As the the right wing Bushites- you are corrent and there is no sensible answer

Answer 6

I can't help you because I don't understand their philosophy either.

Answer 7

I think it's okay if one of the side effects is that it sterilizes the irresponsible whore who takes it.

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