What benefit would the drug manufacturer have in lying to the FDA about implantation? Further, it’s not the drug manufacturers who claim it doesn’t work on implantation. It’s separate studies that have been done over the years.
I’m pro-life. But I want facts about these issues, not hyped up, emotional jargon that may or may not be true. Quite frankly, information from pregnancy crisis centers tends to be inaccurate on facts.
I appreciate helping already pregnant women get the facts and NOT abort, but making false claims about birth control is just wrong. Plan B, thus far, appears to prevent fertilization, not stop an already fertilized egg from implanting. Or worse, like some uninformed folks claim, that it kills embryos, etc.
One more thing: A teenage girl can walk into any grocery store and buy vitamin c and abort or attempt to abort her baby. Where’s the outrage against vitamin c?
the drug manufacturer says “This won't harm you if you are already pregnant... but, oh by the way, don't take it if yo are already pregnant!”
The (balanced) clinic sites warn that taking Plan B hormones could cause complications in some patients and especially in girls who have diagnosed or undiagnosed medical conditions other than pregnancy and should NOT be used by girls who, for example, have diabetes or pelvic inflammatory disease (how many teen girls have STD’s? too many unfortunately).
That's why teenagers need a DOCTOR'S RX, not a judicial order
at age 17 (and below) I think a lot of teen customers will easily miss the “3 day window” for which this drug was intended to be used. Two very common thing among pregnant teen girls seems to be ..... procrastination, and denial
as for flooding a teenage body with hormones, one time- then maybe again next week, then maybe again...and again...
How many times is too many times? Especially when we are already awash in toxic exposures from babyhood or before?
Society will probably find out when young girls develop cancers or other abnormalities at younger ages. I doubt the manufacturer intended this to be a weekly post-party pill but there is absolutely nothing to stop this from happening
Some Random Thoughts:
Bush Administration ruled the age to use it at 18. Now it’s 17. Not a big difference ... I do understand the parental right issue which brings me to my next point:
Parent’s rights are always over-ruled by government knows best judges... this is nothing new. It has been on-going.
But then I thought about this issue:
A child’s decision involving pregnancy issues can not be kept from a parent ... It is the parent’s right to know, However, IMO a parent can not make a decision for the child involving the pregnancy without the child’s agreement, unless it involves a medical situation ...
Hmmm ...
Regardless,
The morning after pill is a lot BETTER alternative than Abortion.
There are “alternative medicine” sources that describe using vitamin C to induce abortion. None of them seem more than anecdotal “I’ve taken megadoses of vitamin C ten times and I’ve never gotten pregnant!” A quick search of medical literature doesn’t show anything of importance and obstetricians don’t warn their patients about vit. C.
I’ve looked at the literature on Plan B and its proponents make claims for both prevention of implantation and for no such thing but there is nothing definitive - I wish there were.
My own thought is that it shouldn’t prevent implantation by making the uterine lining inhospitable, because progesterone naturally rises after ovulation in any case.
Read the package inserts from the manufacturer. Every hormonal birth control on the market -- EVERY one -- does three things: (1) it may prevent ovulation if taken at the right point in the cycle; (2) it thickens cervical mucus so sperm can't penetrate; and (3) it makes implantation in the uterine lining impossible, causing the already-conceived baby to die.