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do you consider any form of birth control a form of abortion
This is a very interesting question and of great concern to me and my wife.
I have been doing some research and I think that I have found some enough information to form an opinion.
Keep in mind that what I state here is only an opinion.
From a biological point of view, once an egg is fertilized and the 23 chromosomes from each parent has combined to form a cell (a zygote I believe it is called), a human has been created. This cell contains all of the information needed to grow and develop. More importantly it is a HUMAN child. It will not grow up as anything else. It needs only the same thing children need after they are born - nourishment and protection.
I would consider anything that prevents the child from attaching to the uterus the same thing as starving a child to death.
Now, if it prevents the combination of the cells into a 46 chromosome human, I would not consider that an abortion. Life has not been granted at that point.
At this point in our investigation this is my opinion.

Ok, the 4 ways scientists think the morning after pill might work (see #1) are:

1. Preventing the ovary from releasing an egg.
2. Preventing sperm from reaching the egg.
3. Preventing fertilization from occuring.
4. Preventing implantation of the fertilized egg.

So, the concensus is that if it works by any of methods 1-3, it would be okay, but if it works by method 4, it's causing an abortion?

Good job, and good opinion (with which I agree). True contraception prevents ferilization. Anything else is an abortifacient. (There is ever so slight a chance that the post-coital progesterone-only and estrogen-progesterone combinations protocols don't cause abortion. There's evidence that the uterus is the same after ovulation, whether or not the woman is taking exogenous hormones - but I won't prescribe them until I understand better.)

As Question Assumptions said, women who find themselves in need of "emergency contraception have more problems than the risk of pregnancy.
I think that this is one more way for men - more than women (who will ingest the chemicals, still have a greater risk of infection - and the younger the girl, the greater the risk of more serious risks - and the worry until her period) to get to have uncommitted casual sex without consequences.