Singularity wrote:
Because of the exact method by which the medication works. Many who believe that life begins at conception consider the morning after pill to be an abortifacient. Some also have the same objection to lo dose birth control pills.
This is because pregnancy is prevented by two primary methods . First, if the body's regulatory hormonal chemistry is tricked and the ovaries do not produce an egg waiting to be fertilized there can be no pregnancy for that cycle.
Secondarily, similarly to the primary action of the morning after pill, many birth control pills cause the lining of the uterus to be made unreceptive to implantation by the unlikely egg that might be occasionally produced,
which might still have been fertilized and thus be a human child, but which will die without a uterine lining to inplant within.
Some feel that using drugs to make one's uterus so inhospitable to that rare occasional tiny blastocyst so that it wanders off and dies is murder.
Putting that into perspective, about a third of all the human ova that become fertilized, abort themselves naturally, anyway, without any contraceptive action, consent, knowledge or awareness of their parents. The uterus is a tricky and cantankerous organ. The world is a wide, wild place.
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You have put together a very thoughtful and considered post. Well done.