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I'm ignorant to the actual inner workings of what the pill physically does to the body, but that won't stop me from giving my two sense. ;)
I'd say yes, the morning after pill is abortion, in a semantic sense, that it aborts the pregnancy, after already committing the sexual act that would yield a pregnancy, if no other complications were to occur.
Posted on both sides, because while it is almost always a no, it can be a yes too.
In most cases, no. 'Plan B' and generics (active ingredient norgestrel, either chiral form) is the most often used emergency contraceptive, and all it does is delay ovulation; it doesn't do anything if an egg has already been released.
However, 'Morning After Pill' is a blanket term for emergency contraceptives in general. Notable among these is Mifepristone (aka RU-486), which is available by prescription only if I recall correctly. In addition to delaying ovulation, it is also capable of killing a fertilized egg, even after it has implanted and for some time thereafter. This morning after pill can potentially be considered an abortion even if taken the morning after, depending on whether or not one has already ovulated.
This is one of the ways it could work. In some cases it stops the fertiliser egg being implanted in the uterine wall. I guess this would be abortion to you as the fertilised egg dies.
Yes. Plan Be contains an emergency high dose of levenorgestril which is an artificial progestin hormone. This hormone works much like progesterone in that it sends a signal to the brain to stop ovulation or to delay it, depending on where the women is at in her cycle. It does not cause an abortion.
Ok cool. So she can't use plan B if she has already started ovulation before sex. So what does she use the morning after she has had sex? I thought plan B was the same as the morning after pill, sorry.
Thank you. There are two types of morning after pill, ulipristal acetate, and Plan B. Ulipristal acetate causes abortion, and Plan B does not. Ulipristal acetate is an antiprogesterone antagonist, and Plan B is the progestin only morning after pill.
Hmm.. I think there is something we aren't understanding here. If the woman has already ovulating and the egg is fertilised, what is the point in taking Plan B if it only stops ovulation? Stopping ovulation wouldn't help her at all.
Well then the people that make their product are wrong about their own product. That is bad. What a crappy drug. If the women is ovulating it is 0% effective. I hope women realise that.
My problem is that you called me a rapist and said that I deserve to be raped, and yet you refuse to leave me alone, and for that, I hate you. I will never trust or respect you after what you did.
I am going to trust a scientific study over your opinion. I am putting a random sentence here to see if you really care about this debate. Science should be what determines what does and does not cause abortions.
I agreed with you that it is not an abortive. Retard. All I am saying is that it is a shame that it is not effective as a contraceptive if the woman has already ovulated.
Posted on both sides, because while it is almost always a no, it can be a yes too.
In most cases, no. 'Plan B' and generics (active ingredient norgestrel, either chiral form) is the most often used emergency contraceptive, and all it does is delay ovulation; it doesn't do anything if an egg has already been released.
However, 'Morning After Pill' is a blanket term for emergency contraceptives in general. Notable among these is Mifepristone (aka RU-486), which is available by prescription only if I recall correctly. In addition to delaying ovulation, it is also capable of killing a fertilized egg, even after it has implanted and for some time thereafter. This morning after pill can potentially be considered an abortion even if taken the morning after, depending on whether or not one has already ovulated.
