[luckystarmom]

There is a big difference between the morning-after pill and abortions.

The morning-after pill prevents the fertilized egg from implanting, much like an IUD. It makes the uterus unfriendly to a fertilized egg, thus preventing pregnancy.

I have an IUD, and I think there is a big difference between this and abortions.

If you want to ban the morning-after pill, then you have to ban the IUD and I don't think that will ever happen.

Now, if you want to talk about whether or not the morning-after pill should be sold over the counter. I don't think it should. I think it will be misused, and it will probably cause women harm.

[Diamond]

To say that "the morning-after pill prevents the fertilized egg from implanting, much like an IUD", is a misnomer in the extreme. Properly speaking, at ferilization there is no more egg because both egg and sperm have ceased to exist. They have fused to become a new human being - one, like you, who has never existed before and will never exist again. The beginning of each individual human life, is at the beginning; ie, at fertilization. These facts are scientifically and ontologically incontrovertable.

Cordially,

[hocndoc]

The topic should be whether or not to change the status of the post coital protocols.

Unfortunately, the subject is complicated, and does include whether or not an individual human life has the right not to be deliberately killed, even before implantation.

In Texas, we legally recognize that abortion is the ending of an individual human life from fertilization until birth.