Morning-After Pill

[Seatuck]

The Connecticut Bishop’s found that there is little evidence of the abortifacient property after talking to medical experts and moral theology experts.

 

[maryjk]

First the Morning After Pill Won’t stop Ovulation.

mayoclinic.com/health/morning-after-pill/AN00592
The active ingredients in morning-after pills are similar to those in birth control pills, except in higher doses. Some morning-after pills contain only one hormone, levonorgestrel (Plan B), and others contain two, progestin and estrogen. Progestin prevents the sperm from reaching the egg and** keeps a fertilized egg from attaching to the wall of the uterus (implantation).** Estrogen stops the ovaries from releasing eggs (ovulation) that can be fertilized by sperm.

mayoclinic.com/health/ovulation-signs/AN01521
**Changes in basal body temperature. Ovulation may cause a slight increase in temperature. You will be most fertile during the two to three days before your temperature rises. **

I hope this information helps.

I understand how ovulation works. If you can stop the release of the egg, you stop fertilization. It doesn’t matter how many sperm are around.

Since I know when I ovulate, I would know, for instance that I have not ovulated for this month. I also know that I should ovulate in the next few days. If I can take a high dose of estrogen to stop ovulation, if I were raped, it would not cause a chemical abortion. I haven’t ovulated. It would simply stop ovulation.

As Seatuck says, stopping ovulation, would be defending against an unjust aggressor.

 

[Brendan]

Yes it can be taken before a known pregnancy. But since there can be a pregnancy, it would be immoral to take this pill which might cause the death of a human person. One would have to know for sure that there was not a pregnancy before taking it.

In Catholic hospitals (outside of Connecticut), a blood test for ovulation is done. Note that I said ovulation, not conception. There is no blood test that can detect conception prior to implantation, but there are accurate blood tests to determine if the woman has released a ovvum recently.

If there has been no ovulation, there can be no conception, pretty much by defintion.

Hormonal contraceptives are only given if the woman has not ovulated in the last 48 hours.

As Seatuck noted, the CN bishops are looking more deeply at this, as the CN legislature recently outlawed the use of ovulation blood tests in determining how the doctors may treat a rape victim

(how is that for logic, specifically DENY doctors the abilty to run specific tests in order to determine the course of treatment )

 

[Pro-Life_Teen]

It can kill a child. Your child. I wouldn’t dare.

1/1000 rapes end in pregnancy give or take. It’s a very small number. abortionfacts.com/online_books/love_them_both/why_cant_we_love_them_both_29.asp ]