is using the morning after pill commiting an abortion?

Answer 1

Only if you're a gullible Christian.

Answer 2

This is a very good question. In fact, in our September 2007 AWAKE, there was an article entitled: The Bible’s Viewpoint – Is Contraception Morally Wrong?

If you were to ask members of the Catholic Church their viewpoint regarding contraception, they would respond by saying that every action designed to impede procreation “is intrinsically evil.” Catholic dogma promotes the idea that each act of sexual intercourse between marriage mates must remain open to pregnancy. In other words, contraception is “morally unacceptable,” according to the Catholic Church.

Remember, that article was entitled: “The Bible’s viewpoint,” not “The Catholic Churches Viewpoint.” So, what is the Bible’s viewpoint in regards to contraception (i.e. the morning after pill)?

Jehovah God considers the life of a child to be precious, even in the earliest stages of development. King David of Israel wrote under inspiration: “You kept me screened off in the belly of my mother… Your eyes saw even the embryo of me, and in your book all its parts were down in writing.” (Psalm 139:13, 16)

It is noteworthy to say that there are contraceptives (or methods of birth control) that can indeed by abortive. Such methods are NOT in harmony with the divine principle for respect for life. Most contraceptives, though, are not abortive. What about the use of such methods as birth control?

Nowhere in the Bible command Christians to procreate. God told the first human family and Noah’s family: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.” However, this command was not repeated to Christians. (Genesis 1:28; 9:1)

Hence, married couples may decide for themselves whether they will raise a family, how many children they will have, and when they will have them. The Scriptures, likewise, do not condemn birth control. From a biblical perspective, then, whether a husband and wife choose to use some nonabortive methods of contraception is really a personal decision.

Sexual relations between husband and wife are a God-given gift. But procreation is not their sole purpose. Sexual relations also allow a married person to express tenderness and affection for each other. So if a couple should decide to exclude the possibility of a pregnancy by using some form of contraception, that is their choice to make, and no one should judge them. (Romans 14:4, 10-13)

Sources:
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

September 2007 AWAKE
Published by Jehovah’s Witnesses
Article: The Bible’s Viewpoint – Is Contraception Morally Wrong?
Pages 10-11

Answer 3

It is an abortifacient, so yes, technically, as is the IUD. It prevents a fertilized egg (zygote) from implanting in the uterine wall and developing into an embryo. The only methods of birth control that are not abortifacients are the ones that prevent the sperm and egg from meeting to begin with, like the condom and the diaphragm and the ones that regulate / prevent ovulation, like the pill.

That said, in using the morning after pill, you are being infinitely more responsible than giving birth to an unwanted child or waiting to have an abortion when the zygote has developed into something more morally questionable. The morning after pill kills ONE CELL. One. You killed more than that with friction during the reproductive process. You kill more than that when you scratch your arm. The best way to prevent the later-term abortions that even the pro-choice among us find questionable if not downright reprehensible is to make the morning after pill available to all upon demand.

Answer 4

No - but I would question why the pill is being taken - is it bad planning or a genuine accident! I don't think it is a good pill to take all the time as it is a huge overdose of hormones isn't it, to stop the egg fertilising? That can't be all that good for your body.

Answer 5

No conception has not taken place, so there is nothing to abort. Using contraception may be against some religions, and I understand that. But if you follow some of the comparisons with murder, than surely the withdrawal method it tantamount to the same thing, albeit one is a natural method of prevention, and one is not.

Answer 6

Contraceptives is abortion. Heck, even menstruation is already abortion. The difference is that its still small enough to be not considered life. But the action of using pills and contraceptives is more "human" than clinical abortion.

Answer 7

The question should be" when does life begin?"

At birth or at conception? This is the basic question that legislators of several countries are pondering. Recently the United States Senate held an “abortion hearing” in which scientists testified concerning the beginning of life. One witness, Dr. J. Lejeune, a French geneticist, argued that “from its very beginning the ‘thing’ we started with is a member of our kin . . . the same human being from fecundation [fertilization] to death.” In his contention that life begins at conception, he stated: “The very fact that we have to develop ourselves during nine months inside the bodily protection of our mother does not change anything.”

At this same hearing another scientist arguing in favor of abortion reasoned that the question “is essentially a religious and moral” one. In reflecting on his point, how does the greatest of religious books refer to the unborn? As simply tissue? The Bible at Jeremiah 1:5 says: “Before you proceeded to come forth from the womb I sanctified you.” God viewed Jeremiah as having life prior to his birth. Likewise the inspired psalmist David says: “You kept me screened off in the belly of my mother. . . . Your eyes saw even the embryo of me, and in your book all its parts were down in writing.”—Ps. 139:13-16.

Thus, while the debate continues among scientists and legislators, for those who look to the Bible the answer has already been given by the greatest Scientist, the Source of life himself.—Ps. 36:9.

Answer 8

See all answers above saying No.

Also consider:
Consciousness begins when the brain starts to build synapses and differentiate itself (and its body) from what is not itself... I think you should think about this in order to decide about the moment when interruption of pregnancy is abortion.

Answer 9

No. It prevents the fertilized egg from implanting in the lining of the womb, and if taken early enough after intercourse will prevent fertilization from happening at all. An abortion is the physical removal of the blastocyst or fetus from its settled position.


And "committing" an abortion? Loaded language, dude...

Answer 10

the morning after pill prevents fertilisation, so the 'baby' has not yet been created. in the same way a condom or the pill is preventing fertilisation.

Answer 11

yes why? well you have these people saying no because it hasn't reached this stage yet. But in fact your stopping it from reaching this stage therefore you are altering God's creation. Just because the baby has not began to start forming or whatever you wanna call it, doesn't mean it's not killing. If you are stopping what could have produced a child than that would be killing duh!! Wether there would have been a baby is the question, but why chance it, because you don't know if you would have been pregnant. Plus I am sure if someone was using this pill they would be using it more than once therefore you most definitley killed a child unless you are unfertile and just don't know it.