The Morning After Pill... Abortion?
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny Abortion is back in the news, fueled by possible misconceptions over exactly what the morning after pill does. The New York Times - Labels inside every box of morning-after pills, drugs widely used to prevent pregnancy after sex, say they may work by blocking fertilized eggs from implanting in a woman’s uterus. Respected medical authorities, including the National Institutes of Health and the Mayo Clinic , have said the same thing on their Web sites. Such descriptions have become kindling in the fiery debate over abortion and contraception . Based on the belief that a fertilized egg is a person, some religious groups and conservative politicians say disrupting a fertilized egg’s ability to attach to the uterus is abortion, “the moral equivalent of homicide,” as Dr. Donna Harrison, who directs research for the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists , put it. Mitt Romney recently called...