Ahso!;1375168 wrote: There's fact and there's religious twisting of fact. Preventing the union of sperm and egg is exactly what the Plan B pill was designed for. Check with the designers if you like, that might be a better place to get your information instead of right-winged propaganda sites. (Not that you've provided any citations up to now. Would you like to at this juncture?)
First, it is pure speculation that Plan B prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the lining of the uterine wall. The way Plan B works is to prevent the egg from being released from the ovaries, if the drug, which is a small amount of synthetic human hormones is taken timely. Plan B has only an 89% success rate. Second, once again, there is no way of telling if an egg did in fact become fertile other than a female becoming pregnant.
"If taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, Plan B emergency contraception can reduce a woman's chances of pregnancy by as much as 89%.
It contains a high dose of birth control drugs and works by preventing ovulation or fertilization. It also may prevent a fertilized egg from implanting into the uterus, but recent research suggests that's not likely. In medical terms, pregnancy begins when a fertilized egg attaches itself to the wall of the uterus.
Plan B will not interfere with an established pregnancy. Religious conservatives say it's the equivalent of an abortion pill because it can prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus." Source: FDA to OK over-the-counter Plan B for 17-year-olds - USATODAY.com
And
" Plan B
A drug could lower the risk of pregnancy in one of three ways:
It could kill all of the sperm after ejaculation.
It could prevent the fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.
It could either prevent or delay the release of the egg. Levonorgestrel takes this third path.
When you purchase Plan B, you get two pills. Each pill contains 0.75 milligrams of levonorgestrel. You take the first pill as soon as possible after unprotected sex, and you take the second pill 12 hours later.
Although scientists aren't completely sure how it works, they believe that levonorgestrel prevents pregnancy either by stopping the ovulation process or by disrupting the ability of sperm and egg to meet in the fallopian tubes. Some speculate that the drug may prevent the fertilized egg from implanting as well, perhaps by making the uterine lining less receptive to the egg.
Levonorgestrel does this by disrupting the natural hormonal cycle. It contains a synthetic form of progesterone (regular birth-control pills contain it in lower doses). The high doses of progesterone in Plan B are disruptive enough to prevent fertilization or implantation.
If ovulation has already occurred, levonorgestrel will be less effective. It will be most effective if it's taken before ovulation. This is why it's important to take Plan B as soon as possible after unprotected sex. Once a fertilized egg implants, Plan B will have no effect. This explains why doctors advise women to take Plan B no later than 72 hours after unprotected sex -- the chances of it working are very low at that point.
Because of all these variables, Plan B is not 100 percent effective. But in clinical trials, it has been found to be 89 percent effective." Source:
Discovery Health "How does the morning-after pill work?"
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http://www.morningafterpill.org/how-does-it-work.html"
How Does it Work?
The emergency contraceptive/morning-after pill has three modes of action (as does the regular birth control pill); that is, it can work in one of three ways:
The normal menstrual cycle is altered, delaying ovulation; or
Ovulation is inhibited, meaning the egg will not be released from the ovary;
It can irritate the lining of the uterus (endometrium) so as to inhibit implantation.
Keep in mind that fertilization (the union of female ovum, or egg, and male sperm) occurs in the fallopian tube and that fertilization marks the beginning of a new human life - and the beginning of the pregnancy. The newly created child then travels down the fallopian tube to the uterus (womb) where he or she implants. Implantation is necessary for the new child to receive nourishment from the mother and continue developing. The journey from the fallopian tube to the womb takes between five and seven days during which pregnancy cannot be readily detected.
Therefore, if a woman ingests emergency contraception after fertilization has taken place, the third mode of action can occur. The lining of the uterus can be altered causing the woman's body to reject the living human embryo, making implantation impossible and the child will die. This result is called a chemical abortion; therefore emergency contraception is an abortifacient.
As for your God ending a life whenever he likes: murder is murder regardless of who is responsible, no?
Murder is not murder when it is an execution. The lawful ending of death is not murder.
All Praise The Ancient Of Days
I believe life begins at conception. Anything done to the baby after that I believe is murder. If the people having an abortion and the doctors who give them can live with that then that is, as the old saying goes, between them and there God. And before people start saying what about cases of rape....tell me where that is that babys fault...same goes for being to young...if you feel like you can't care for the child, give it up for adoption. I was 42 when I found out I was pregnant, the doctors starts asking. do you want this test or that, I told him no I don't want any. He said well if you don't plan to act on the results then theres no need to take the teat.
