{"id":189638,"date":"2018-10-11T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=189638"},"modified":"2020-01-23T20:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T02:05:51","slug":"women-emergency-contraception-abortions-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-emergency-contraception-abortions-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Many women think emergency contraception can cause abortions. They’re right."},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the biggest claims made by advocates of emergency contraception — also known as the Morning After Pill, Ella, Plan B, and more — is that these pills do not cause an abortion. Supporters insist that the pills, no matter their brand, simply prevent a pregnancy from occurring in the first place. Planned Parenthood<\/a> tells women there’s no way the Morning After Pill can cause an abortion, and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) insists the pills merely work “by preventing or delaying ovulation, not by terminating a pregnancy.”<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this is misleading to women, and many women know it. Bustle reports<\/a>,\u00a0“35 per cent of respondents to ellaOne’s survey thought the pill ’causes a mini abortion’, while 47 per cent of those surveyed by FPA ‘thought using emergency contraception was like an abortion, or weren\u2019t sure.'” While the abortion industry dismisses these women’s suspicions as misinformation, they are actually rooted in fact.<\/p>\n

READ: Studies show all forms of emergency contraception can cause abortion<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to understand exactly how the Morning After Pill (and emergency contraception in general) can cause early abortions, one must understand the science behind pregnancy. Scientific textbooks from the disciplines of embryology, biology, and genetics all agree on when a new human life begins: at the moment of fertilization, when a woman’s egg cell and a man’s sperm cell fuse.<\/p>\n