Plan B, when used properly, prevents conception. That’s not a horrible thing. Kids needing it is.
We do our young people a disservice by grouping abortifacient drugs with other contraceptives. The medical community uses the term conception to mean implantation of the individual human being into the mother’s uterus. I’d be opposed to abortion even if the Constitution was silent on the matter, but it is not silent. The language is clear that no person shall be deprived of their life without due process. Yet, on a typical day, thousands of persons are deprived of their life without due process. Calling abortifacient drugs contraceptives doesn’t change that. When Roe v Wade opinion was written, there was a popular scientific theory that an individual goes through several stages before becoming human. “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” was what I was taught in my 5th grade science class in the mid-1960s. The same theory was endorsed with certitude by the nation’s best-selling baby docto, Dr. Spock. But we now know that each of us has been unambiguously identifiable (DNA science) as individual human beings since the earliest stage of our individual development. For most of us, that was when sperm and egg combined and became a single cell. For some, that was when our brother or sister’s cell cloned and we became a twin. Look up the meaning of the word person in your favorite dictionary: a person is an individual human being. I think it’s horrible when any person is deprived of their life without due process. There’s some things in the Constitution I’d like to see amended. Repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments! But we don’t need any amendment to know that abortion is illegal under the Constitution, despite opinions to the contrary. I’m not a single issue voter, but this is one litmus test that guarantees a candidate will not meet my minimum standard for support.