Do you consider the morning after pill to be a form of abortion?

Question

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Answer 1

yes. A life is a life. period.

Answer 2

I would like to start out by saying: this is all opinion. I am not too sure if doctors consider the morning after pill a form of abortion.

The dictionary definition of the word "abortion" is: an operation or other intervention to end a pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus from the womb.

While the morning after pill isn't technically an operation, it is another "intervention" to end a pregnancy. I believe this is proof that it is another form of abortion--based on the definition. I think it is a great thing--if a woman finds out she is pregnant in enough time, there will be less attachment and won't have to go through an operation. With any operation--plastic surgery, heart transplant, or abortion--there are always risks involved. You didn't ask for opinion though so, here's the facts; according to a dictionary definition the morning after pill would be considered a form of abortion.

Answer 3

Yes, I think it could be considered an abortion. Abortion is to terminate a pregnancy. The morning after pill terminates what may have been a pregnancy. I would guess they are similar. Although the morning after pill isn't such a hard decision as an abortion, because at least with the morning after pill the fetus doesn't have a chance to start growing before being terminated. I think it could be considered a humane pregnancy termination. Although in the time span, I don't think that the pregnancy has a chance to become a pregnancy so now I am just confused. Because now I think No it's not the same. OMG I am so confused now thanks. Abortion terminates a pregnancy - Morning after prevents a pregnancy from beginning, it's not quite a pregnancy and you don't even know if it is a pregnancy to terminate.

Answer 4

If you take the morning after treatment, it is to prevent fertilisation. You don't even know if the egg is fertilised (are you even pregnant ?). If that is abortion, then so is using condoms or taking the pill or any other form of contraceptive.
What is the point of making someone have an accidental pregnancy that they are not ready to have? Do we want to punish them for having sex? Will this make them a good parent? Will the same people that are against abortion, financially help the poor girl raise the child when she is left to do it alone?

Answer 5

If you consider any other form of birth control as abortion, then yes. You can't have it both ways, to preach use condoms, take birth control, then condemn Plan B as abortion.

However, if you believe that contraception within reason is an important part of preventing pregnancy, then no. Plan B does one of two things;

A) It prevents an egg from being released. No egg, no fertilization.
B) It prevents implantation. No implantation, no continual splitting of cells, no fetus, no baby.

Your body naturally rejects many eggs that may have been fertalized. It does not allow these eggs to implant. It acts no differently. A normally healthy and normally fertile couple has only about a 25% fertility rate.

It does not act as R-486, in that it (Plan B) does not expel an already implanted fetus. Regular birth control does not hurt an already implanted fetus. Plan B does not hurt an already implanted fetus. Plan B does NOTHING to an already implanted fetus.

We live in a day and age where our natural resources are already stressed, as health care has extended the average life span. We are not recovering from mass plagues and diseases to the extent which we once were, thanks to immunization and excellent health care. However, we have not evolved enough yet to think with our heads rather than our hormones. This proof lies in the frontal cortex being exceedingly underutilized. This is where we think then act rather than react. We react to hormones, without thinking about the consequences. Until we evolve to said point, contraception is an important of maintaining our race and our globe as a livable habitat.

Answer 6

Absolutely. Good to know I'm not the only one thought that way. Morning after pill is actually preventing the sperm from fertilizing the egg so when you take the pill you kill it. Ok I do not know the itsy bitsy details but I just think it's a form of aborting a child to be.

Answer 7

This form of emergency contraception is about 85% effective at preventing pregnancy and is believed to work in one of three ways: temporarily blocking eggs from being produced, preventing the formation of hormones within the ovaries that maintain a pregnancy, or keeping a fertilized egg from becoming implanted in the uterus. With that last one, I have to say that yes, it's a form of abortion. And what's the thing about "its believed to work in one of three ways"? Until someone can figure out which way it works, then I'm going with its a form of abortion. I know I wouldn't want my mom taking it if I were that fertilized egg, nor would I want to take it. Fertilized eggs form babies, unlike some ppls beliefs, we didn't come from rocks. We all have to start somewheres.

Answer 8

I don't believe it is an abortion, because I don't believe that an egg being fertilized is a pregnancy, it is just a fertilized egg because many eggs can get fertilized, and not implant, therefore, even with a fertilized egg, the woman isn't pregnant. So, if the woman isn't pregnant, then there is no abortion to be preformed, so in my opinion the morning after pill can not be considered an abortion procedure.

Some people, however, believe that as soon as the sperm and egg meet that it's a baby.

The definition of an abortion is as follows:

1. Also called voluntary abortion. the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.

2. any of various surgical methods for terminating a pregnancy, esp. during the first six months.

The morning after pill is catagorized as "emergency contraception"

Emergency contraception (EC) (also known as Emergency Birth Control (EBC), the morning-after pill, or postcoital contraception) refers to measures, that if taken after sex, may prevent a pregnancy.

Forms of EC include:

Emergency contraceptive pill —referred to simply as "emergency contraception," "ECPs," or "ECs", or "morning-after pill" —are hormones that act both to prevent ovulation or fertilisation, or possibly, post-fertilisation, subsequent implantation of a blastocyst (embryo). ECPs are not to be confused with chemical abortion methods that act after implantation has occurred.

Intrauterine devices (IUDs) - usually used as a primary contraception method, but sometimes used as emergency contraception.

As opposed to regular methods of contraception, ECs are considered for use in occasional cases only, for example in the event of contraceptive failure. Since they act before implantation, they are considered medically and legally to be forms of contraception. Some pro-life groups define pregnancy as beginning with fertilisation, and therefore consider EC to be an abortifacient. These claims remain controversial;

How do emergency contraception/morning-after pills work?

The emergency contraceptive/morning-after pill has three possible ways in which it can work (as does the regular birth control pill):

Ovulation is inhibited, meaning the egg will not be released;
The normal menstrual cycle is altered, delaying ovulation; or
It can irritate the lining of the uterus so that if the first and second actions fail, and the woman does become pregnant, the human being created will die before he or she can actually attach to the lining of the uterus.
In other words, if the third action occurs, her body rejects the living human embryo, and the child will die. This result is a chemical abortion. (Abortion is an act of direct killing that takes the life of a living preborn human being—a life that begins at fertilization.)

Is it safe?

Here are some of the side effects:

nausea
vomiting
infertility
breast tenderness
ectopic pregnancy (can be life threatening)
blood clot formation
Emergency contraception also offers no protection against sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS.

There are no long term studies to show whether women will be permanently damaged, or risk such diseases as cancer, from these chemicals being given in such high doses.

Answer 9

No. The morning after pill is similar to the regular birth control pills (it contains the same ingredients but a much higher dose). I prevents ovulation of the egg so that there is no egg to recieve the sperm. If the egg is already fertalized and attached, then the morning after pill will not work. Thus it is not abortion when it only prevents fertilization and implantation; it doesn't harm already fertalized and implanted eggs.

Answer 10

Yes, the morning after pill will abort a fertilized egg if there is one. If you believe, as I do, that life begins at conception, then you are aborting a baby. You would be much better taking regular birth control and stopping it before it happens.

Answer 11

Technically yes because it removes fertilised egg but also in three days there is still no human form or human by definition.So yes and no,I guess Think about fertilised egg in a lab that is not going to be implanted back to a human, would you consider this to be abortion too?