Pro-Lifers Say OTC Morning-After Pill Would Have Disastrous Results

Agape Press ^ | 12/17/03 | Jenni Parker and Bill Fancher

[concerned about politics]

Teenagers will be eating this stuff like candy. After years worth of induced abortions, these kids will probably be unable to carry a baby when they decide to. It'll be an unwilling forced sterility. If they sue, Planned Parenthood would just say it was "their choice to take the pills."

[LauraJean]

I don't understand this. I have seen articles telling parents not to use plastic bottles and not to heat up food in plasticware in the microwave. This is supposdly because the plastics can mimic female hormones and cause problems with in the system. But it's alright for medicine that can abort a baby be sold over the counter.

[truthandlife]

I really do believe there will be some disasterous consequences. I believe STD's and AIDS will again rise and I do believe there will be other consequences that we will only know down the road.

I still cannot believe they will be giving these OTC. It is truly incredible!!

[concerned about politics]

A young girl just died from an infection from these pills. Parts of the baby were still in her womb, and the dead meat caused an internal infection that caused her death.
The pro-death groups are ignoring it. I wonder how many more will have to die for the "pro-death cause."

[AppyPappy]

A baby insecticide can't possibly be good for you.

[concerned about politics]

I really do believe there will be some disasterous consequences. I believe STD's and AIDS will again rise

They sure will. Teenagers are like walking hormones. As long as they have no fear of getting caught, it'll become a free for all.
Expect a mass of new social programs to be introduced to clean up the mess these liberals are about to create. The programs will be "for the sake of the children." They'll never admit to being the ones who created the disaster in the first place, either.

[VeritatisSplendor]

Sure, boys won't want to use condoms any more, girls will figure they can go to the drugstore the next day...
some of them are going to take it to late to end a pregnancy, and have to deal with that a few months later...can you say overdose? girls running from drugstore to drugstore figuring ten or twenty of these pills might take care of a later pregnancy...ugh

Mrs VS

[grania]

Where to begin?

If this is an over-the-counter drug, one would suspect true cases of rape will be under-reported by girls and women who are embarassed or frightened.

What effects would this have on a woman and on a child she is carrying if it is taken after 72 hours? It's entirely possible for a woman to not know she was pregnant prior to the event; it's also possible that someone in panic after that time frame would overdose on those pills, thinking more will work later.

Any woman who is considering terminating a pregnancy needs counseling (before and after) and she needs support. She needs medical analysis to be sure there are no complications.

This is terrible. It's treating getting pregnant like catching a cold...go home, pop some pills, rest a few days. I'm shocked that GWB, religious leaders, medical professionals and counselors aren't all over the FDA on this one.

[Cicero]

This would be a disaster. Bush needs to step in and slap these people into line, or fire them if they refuse.

Our medical bureaucracies are crammed full of clintonoids. Abortion is at the top of their priorities, and the health of young women well below it.

[drjimmy]

A young girl just died from an infection from these pills.
While concerns about the effects of Plan B on a woman's body and on STD rates are legitimate, this was not the pill that caused the young woman to die. That was RU-486. Plan B is a contraceptive rather than an abortifacient because it prevents fertilization from taking place.

[luckymom]

Don't you mean to say it prevents implantation from taking place?

[jsbankston]

The Plan-B Pill works no different than current Birth Control pills or IUD's in that both cause the womb to be an environment that is inhospitable for a zygote to attach.

Would you support banning all forms of birth control?

[jsbankston]

They have not approved a new form of abortion but simply a birth control pill that will be OTC. No abortion will take place. In fact Plan B like condoms and birth control bill will reduce the number of abortions.

[cogitator]

While concerns about the effects of Plan B on a woman's body and on STD rates are legitimate, this was not the pill that caused the young woman to die. That was RU-486. Plan B is a contraceptive rather than an abortifacient because it prevents fertilization from taking place.

Thanks for this information. I thought you were wrong and did a little Web searching; Plan B apparently works three different ways -- delaying/preventing ovulation, interfering with fertilization, and preventing implantation. I had only been aware of the third mechanism.

Plan B Emergency Contraception (Morning-After Pills)

[cogitator]

See reply 15. I had to check, too.

[firebrand]

It will increase the number of times a woman is persuaded to have sex against her better judgment, however. But hey, who cares about that any more.

[drjimmy]

Don't you mean to say it prevents implantation from taking place?
I think that it may also make implantation more difficult, in addition to making fertilization more difficult. Some people consider anything after fertilization an abortion, others don't. Some people also consider anything that kills the sperm and/or the egg prior to fertilization an abortion, most don't.

[Pure Country]

Is this in fact any different than an IUD? I think many women had them for years before they realized that they are actually an abortion. Am I correct? What a world we live in--or I should say country.

[Paleo Conservative]

I think many women had them for years before they realized that they are actually an abortion.

That depends on whether pregnancy starts at fertilization or implantation. There is a rather high rate of failure (~80%)for fertilized eggs to implant into the wall of the uterus without taking a morning after pill.