Comments on: Morning-After Pills Don't Actually Keep Fertilized Eggs From Implanting

By: stace FerGodIt

stace FerGodIt — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:19:00 +0000

this is old, i had to reply. in the days before abortion pregnancies from rape were not carried to term. women did everything and anything they could to get rid of the thing. pennyroyal tea was popular – if it didn’t kill you first…there were MANY alternatives to carrying that fetus to term, and we took advantage of them ALL.

By: Karolien

Karolien — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:07:53 +0000

In my opinion it’s quite shocking people call themselves pro life while being in favor of the death penalty. Additionally, calling a clump of a few cells a baby is just as ridiculous as calling cell lines persons. Murdering a sentient, living and breathing animal (human or not) is something very different from removing a few cells without hart or brains. And plan B doesn’t even do that. People who insist plan B is murder after having this information aren’t mentally healthy. They want to control people, especially women.

By: Kula

Kula — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:49:07 +0000

First of all, the FDA should clearly explain what morning after pills is all about, its effectiveness, and the advantages and the disadvantages of the morning after pills.
A woman health should be between the woman, her family, and her doctor and not the public or politicians, especially male politicians who are not women and therefore do not know the implications of the function of a woman’s body.

By: rachel

rachel — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:47:00 +0000

I noticed some young men at my college saying how easy it is to obtain “Plan B” I overheard them saying “this Plan B rocks”, which indicated their level of sexual irresponsibility..and why would it be available to men, who can’t get pregnant? If I were a young and single female college student, I would be very very worried about what the boys are slipping in my drink. Beware!

By: Frank Glover

Frank Glover — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:22:00 +0000

James, for many women (and men) that assumption is absolutely correct. Either at that time, or possibly at ay time in their lives.

And in the end, contraception, abortion or sterilization is done because they themselves have already reached that conclusion…

By: Peggy

Peggy — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 05:50:54 +0000

DC Warrior-Understanding is not the issue. We do understand. My problem is, what do you expect us to do with that understanding? Passively allow one law after another to be passed placing ridiculous hurdles that do nothing to protect the health and safety of women much less give them real information? Stay home and not act as clinic escorts and let girls and women going to clinics for abortions have the foulest abuse screamed at them and their supporters without a buffer? Say it’s fine to force doctors to tell women considering abortion potential “consequences” of abortion that either do not have scientific support or have been overwhelmingly shown to be false.? In the case of Plan B and the birth control pill, stay silent when anti-choice people claim that those medications are “abortifacents” for those anti-choice advocates who don’t want to admit that the real target isn’t just abortion, it’s contraception.

@Jamessays: if children are always a blessing, why are there so many abused ones? The anti-choice forces that are now going after birth control do not want women/couples to be able to determine if they will have children and, if they do, how many and when so that babies. Where women/couples do have that ability, you optimize the chances of each baby born being born into a loving home that is physically, emotionally, and financially equipped to welcome it into the world. You might want to look at what happened in then Communist Romania after the Ceacescu regime banned birth control and abortion, including interrogating couples when the women didn’t show signs of pregnancy after a certain length of time. The so-called Romanian “orphans” were, for the most part, not orphans. Most were abandoned or turned over to state run orphanages by parents totally unable to feed another mouth.

By: Iain

Iain — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 01:48:03 +0000

@ James.
Children are not a blessing. Nothing is. There is no such thing. ( a blessing is the infusion of something with holiness, spiritual redemption, divine will etc. It’s a myth)
Children are parasites that are highly demanding of time and sometimes scant resources. But we love them anyway. I do agree with your sentiment about their treatment, so logically where an unwanted child would be born, it would not be just nor humane to make that unwanted child grow up in an anti-nurturing environment.

By: LGR

LGR — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 01:26:47 +0000

I’m afraid the world is already full of unwanted people, judging by the numbers of parents who abuse, neglect, abandon or sell their children for sex to strangers. The problem is that people (sorry, but mainly men) disassociate sex with pregnancy. Sex is there to propagate the species, but people treat it as an unwanted side effect!! If people treated sex as sacred – not just another form of entertainment – I think children would be valued. It’s terrible that a fetus’s life is valued only as much as the mother wants it to be – if she wants it, it’s precious, but if not, it’s simply thrown away. In the days before easy abortions, even pregnancies resulting from rape were carried to term – otherwise, Eartha Kitt would not have been born.

By: Superchkn

Superchkn — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:03:15 +0000

@dcwarrior – I think part of the difficulty comes from the hard ethical questions and where different people come at that. Starting with the most obvious, what sets humans apart for special treatment versus other forms of life? As an atheist, my answer to that question is going to be strikingly different from (for example) a Catholic person’s, and my view of where life begins, what conception means, the value of an individual human’s life at various stages, and the impact of bringing more human lives into a stressed finite environment are all going to be influenced by that due to the different tools the two of us use to reach our conclusions. Thus, I disagree with floodmouse that this was mostly due to gut reactions (which is probably a view shared on both sides of the issue); though certainly I can see how it would appear that way when most of us are not offered the option to share our entire line of reasoning during such debates. A lot of us are passionate about our positions, so it’s natural that people on both sides become emotional when discussing it. The trick is checking that tendency and being able to have a reasoned and rational discussion – which is something that has been lacking from mainstream media (dare I say from its inception?)

@James – I think it is actually provable that for some women, life would be better for the woman (and often the child) for that person not to have offspring in the first place. Just as it is for some men. If Americans were really as concerned as they claim to be about the sanctity of life and about “children being a blessing”, there wouldn’t be so many orphanages, so many children in foster care (in America, no less), many fewer dying from inexpensively preventable diseases, many fewer exploited and trafficked, and none going hungry. When it comes to words, as a society we’re eager to voice our opinion but reluctant to sacrifice our wants for a meaningful and lasting solution. I’m not inferring that you are one of those people, but I’ve heard the “but think of the children” line enough times from people who are that I believe it bears pointing out the disconnect. It’s easy to get on a moral high horse, but it proves to be quite difficult to ride.

By: Judi

Judi — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:55:48 +0000

Babies conceived as a result of rape are not a blessing but a curse to the woman who was raped, in most cases. Abortion is no one’s preferred choice, but it is essential for all women to have choices concerning their bodies and their health. I had a choice, twice and my choice was to go ahead with the pregnancy even though the timing was terrible and we couldn’t afford either child. But often that is the choice a woman will make to continue to pregnancy, far be it from me to determine someone else’s choices. It is between a woman and her conscience or God. Not for government that is trying to be small and allowing people freedoms. It isn’t anyone else’s business.

If every pregnancy went to full term the world would soon be full of unwanted people, children and babies and there would be many more people for the government to support who could not support themselves. For there are many pregnancies that end due to the fact that the fetus is damaged. This is the natural way of things, not all fetuses can survive.