Is the morning after pill classed as abortion?

Question

Is the morning after pill classed as abortion?

Answer 1

No the fetus has not implanted yet - its not an abortion until you are pregnant and you are not pregnant the day after s*x-- you are not pregnant until implantation occurs 7 to 10 days after s*x.

Answer 2

To some people it is because if a baby was conceived then the end result would be death. However,there is also the chance that you wouldn't have been pregnant and thefore the pill is not doing anything. It all depends on how you want to look at it. With abortion you are terminating a fetus but with the pill (day after inercourse) it's still just an egg,not a fetus. So basically you're stopping it before even the fetus is conceived. That's my opinion and everyone's are different.

Answer 3

nope not in my opinion anyway. You are preventing fertilisation or stopping an egg which has just been fertilised.

Answer 4

I don't think so. It doesn't allow the egg to implant. This is no different than what normally happens sometimes. The eggs do not always implant. The Pill essentially helps make sure this doesn't happen. It does not kill a baby it prevents one from being made.

Answer 5

Yes, it is.

Answer 6

I see it like that. I don't see how people can think it's ok to do it in that case and destroying the fetus isn't ..

Answer 7

(Sorry this is so long)

*First off, the above/below me "answers"

There's no right answer, but there's two possibilities.

A) The sperm began entering your egg, and that is the first step to a life being born. In my mind, that's abortion, the knowledge of this, and choosing to take a pill to end the gears that are already set in motion, stop the life making process.

B) The sperm didn't reach the egg. Taking the pill is a form of comfort in knowing definitively, it assuredly won't happen.

So if you rack your brain around this concept it is and it isn't, under those two possibilities.

Take the pill/don't take it or if you already have and want to feel better about yourself, there's always the possibility it was B.

If you haven't taken it, think about what you are choosing to do, only you will live to know the choice you made.

My gf and I had an oops, or so I thought, as it turns out she secretly stopped taking birth control.

I chose life in the end, because love is the only hope for this world. At first, I thought it's her body and her sacrifice, but truly as the would be father of a living being, I felt like I was standing idly by, knowing I could make a difference in my first born's life, while it was still so small and defenseless. (I say it, because we don't know the s*x yet, she's 15 wks now)

She first cried and chose abortion at first in the dr. room, but the day of the appointment, your heart knows what to do, as did hers, although maybe it was my heart and my will/love of the idea of being a good father that swayed her when I expressed my earnest love for this child, how we will become connected farther than bf/gf and our first born wasn't aborted.

I'll never know, but I'm 22 (she's 19) I didn't plan this child, but I know this much, you are never in complete control of your own life, there are detours you will never forsee, it's the choices you make/your heart/your logic/your selfish desires to purse personal growth or altruistic love.

A love for someone you may have never met/known or a face you will never know but never forget.

That will haunt you, that's what I thought about.

I couldn't live with that idea.

I do not cast judgement your way, for whatever choice you make, because we are all our own worst critics.

Listen to your heart, first, then open it up to the would be father.

If he says abort, like I did, the day of, if he still doesn't change his mind, it's up to you to save a life.

Answer 8

oh wow

I never even thought for a minute of "the day after pill" being considered and abortion or death of a baby before.........

I always thought that it just kept you from getting pregnant in the first place....

and that it is only taken in rare cases where a female is raped or maybe if the condom breaks...

I don't know that much about it,and I have never taken it.....

but,I never even thought that it could be like an abortion.....

If it is the same,then I would NEVER do it myself....even in the case of a rape,which I also don't get the rape arguement because that baby isn't the one who raped you and the baby is also half of you....I understand that you have to carry that baby inside you for 9 months but,as I said....the baby isn't the one who did it....and you're going to remember tand be haunted by the rape regardless if you abort the baby or not....

(and this opinion is coming from a rape victim....so there you go...)Of course that is just my opinion.....you're all welcome to your own.....

Anyhow,this has definitely got me thinking and wondering now....

IF all that pill does it KEEP you from getting pregnant...then I would NOT consider it an abortion....it would be no different than you not taking that pill and you having unsafe s*x and you just lucking out and not getting pregnant....(many people do have unprotective s*x and not get pregnant by chance...)

However if I'm wrong and it does END a pregnancy,then I would consider it the same as an abortion....

So that's what we need to find out.....which is true....

does it ony keep you from getting pregnant?

OR

does it end a pregnancy?

that would determine how I looked at it....

Now with all of that said....I do think that if you ARE going to end a pregnancy,and that pill IS like having an abortion,then at least "the mornin after pill" would be a little better than "the abortion pill" that makes you miscarry or another type of abortion.....

However,I personally couldn't do it.....

No matter how the method.....

If it's the same thing an an abortion or an abortion itsself...

also,I'd like to add....

when you're facing an unplanned pregnancy,there is no easy choice or "way out"....no matter what choice you make,your life will never be the same.....whether you abort the baby,give the baby up for adoption,or keep it.....

Answer 9

Nope, you are preventing a fertilised egg (yes, an egg, not a baby!) from implanting, therefore it has no chance of even becoming an embryo, let alone a foetus or a baby!

This is just taking the anti-abortion argument too far!