Yesterday, blogger Sex in the Public Square complained about this quote in a March 30 Time magazine article about the abortion industry's marketing advances in Latin America:
... Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, a socialist, late last year sanctioned the free distribution of abortion-inducing "morning-after" contraception pills at government-run hospitals.
Groused SitPS:
This is a major problem. Not only is it inaccurate, but to describe emergency contraception as an abortion-inducing pill is to greatly reduce its chances of acceptance by people who oppose abortion, and increase the stigma attached to its use.
I, too, am shocked Time used the a-word to explain how the morning-after pills works, certainly due to a momentary lapse of honesty.
And SitPS is right that if women knew hormonal contraception caused abortions, many would reject it. But SitPS is wrong to purport it does not. I'll cut her slack, though. She is likely ignorant through no fault of her own but because her liberal mentors seek to keep all women barefoot and barren on that point.
Here is how the Plan B morning-after pill website says Plan B works:
Plan B works like a regular birth control pill. It prevents pregnancy mainly by stopping the release of an egg from the ovary, and may also prevent the fertilization of an egg (the uniting of sperm with the egg). Plan B may also work by preventing it from attaching to the uterus (womb).
What is "it"? An embryo. Embryos are a minimum of five days old and maximum of nine days old when they implant in the uterus. So the morning after pill may cause the abortion of an approximately week-old preborn human.
This is information women including SitPS should know, but the contraception/abortion industry purposefully keeps it from them by using ambiguous or misleading language.
Jill,
You should note the word "may" from the Plan B web site. They're not saying that Plan B prevents implantation - they're saying it might because they're not sure if it does or not.
Studies have shown us it is likelier that Plan B doesn't have an effect on implantation.
For example, here and here.
Dumb question, but what does the pill do if the egg has already been released?
PK - There's no such thing as a dumb question.
It makes the uterine wall impervious to embryo implantation. The embryo can't implant so s/he is flushed out.
Best example: We visited a cave with a huge underground lake. Because there was no light, there was no vegetation in the lake. So when fish laid eggs, the eggs couldn't attach to the smooth lake wall and slid to the bottom and died or were eaten. (So fish were only there thanks to constant restocking.)
Ms. Stanek, there's quite a bit of evidence that the progesterone-only pills do not impair implantation. Practitioners of natural family planning are familiar with the effects of progesterone after ovulation: thickened mucus, less chance of fertilization. And, later than the day of ovulation, the pill probably increases the chances of implantation.