Actually, if taken right after rape, one will never know if there was a conception. It’s a far less than 50% chance because women are not always fertile, and when they are, or if sperm survive for days (they sometimes do) in the tubes, even then, with no intervention, around half of “sperm meeting egg” doesn’t result in a baby’s conception. I mean, it might result in a conception of a healthy sperm getting into aneuploid egg (One whose chromosomes will never be able to continue growing a baby). A pregnancy test might show up positive, but the hcg levels don’t go up very far and she gets her period. Or miscarries a few weeks along.
A lot of people don’t understand how few eggs, even in a healthy young woman, are “good,” chromosomally able to make a human. Up to 50% in even the most fertile woman, meaning she won’t get pregnant every single month even with sex at the right times. Even if sperm and egg met and formed a zygote, often, up to half the time, it disintegrates rather than continue into a baby.
Because of that, maybe ignorance is not quite bliss but somewhat relieved, that after her trauma of rape, a good woman can take a mess of progesterone (morning after pill), ensuring an inhospitable uterine lining, and never know if a baby had formed, but she could say it probably didn’t.
I am very pro life but I also have been involved in studies on fertility so I know how very precious and difficult it is to create a baby.
I think it is much less moral to take such hormones after having willing unprotected sex. In fact I am horrified by “abortifacients” including the IUD as birth control. But my heart goes out to victims of sexual attack.
Whoops sorry for double post.