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The Church says that the Plan B contraceptive can actually abort a fertilized egg. Is there a study or source on this ? I’ve looked and can’t really find anything to support this. Not that I agree with its use to prevent life (outside of rape or something, as the Church agrees with).

Thanks in advance. 🙂
 
I don’t know where the church ever makes this claim, but the FDA does.

accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2009/021998lbl.pdf
CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
12.1
Mechanism of Action
Emergency contraceptive pills are not effective if a woman is already pregnant. Plan One-Step is believed to act as an emergency contraceptive principally by preventing ovulation or fertilization (by altering tubal transport of sperm and/or ova). In addition, it may inhibit implantation (by altering the endometrium). It is
not effective once the process of implantation has begun.
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Apparently the label of Plan B contains or at least used to contain language about inhibiting implantation.

“In June 2012, a New York Times editorial called on the FDA to remove from the label the unsupported suggestion that levonorgestrel emergency contraceptive pills inhibit implantation.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levonorgestrel
 
Does any of this matter. The Church does not approve any contraceptive other than NFP. The answer is thatnone is approved!
 
SpeakKindly said:
The Church says that the Plan B contraceptive can actually abort a fertilized egg. Is there a study or source on this ? I’ve looked and can’t really find anything to support this. Not that I agree with its use to prevent life (outside of rape or something, as the Church agrees with).

Thanks in advance. 🙂
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Even if you where raped the Church is still against killing the baby.
 
wilsonbill4 said:
Does any of this matter. The Church does not approve any contraceptive other than NFP. The answer is thatnone is approved!
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What matters is that we speak accurately and factually about what the Church teaches versus what science teaches when communicating with others.
 
wilsonbill4 said:
Does any of this matter. The Church does not approve any contraceptive other than NFP. The answer is thatnone is approved!
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The reason I bring it up, is because for many non-Catholics, it doesn’t make sense to be against birth control. Someone asked me if I was against it (since I was against abortion, and said it goes against the child’s right to live), and they asked if I was against birth control for the same reasoning (that it goes against the child’s right to live).

My response was “Well, I’m against birth control, but if you’re asking about using it to specifically kill a zygote (like Plan B), then, yes I believe that also goes against the child’s right to live and is abortion.”

Someone responded saying that Plan B only prevents pregnancy, it doesn’t kill a zygote.

So, that’s what started my search.
 
SpeakKindly said:
The Church says that the Plan B contraceptive can actually abort a fertilized egg. Is there a study or source on this ? I’ve looked and can’t really find anything to support this. Not that I agree with its use to prevent life (outside of rape or something, as the Church agrees with).

Thanks in advance. 🙂
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There is no scientific evidence to prove that Plan B causes miscarriage, and that’s not why the Church forbids it’s usage. Yes, it can, no it hasn’t been proven. That’s not the point regarding the Church’s teaching on contraceptives.

The US Bishops have approved Plan B in the case of rape, if the woman has not ovulated, or is not ovulating, and has said that if the test to determine ovulation is not available and the woman is reasonably certain she has not/is not ovulating, she is permitted to use it. This does not in any way change the Church’s teaching on artificial contraception.

catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0566.html
“A woman who has been raped may defend herself against a conception resulting from sexual assault. If, after appropriate testing, there is no evidence that conception has occurred already, she may be treated with medication that would prevent ovulation, sperm capacitation, or fertilization. It is not permissible, however, to initiate or to recommend treatments that have as their purpose or direct effect the removal, destruction, or interference with the implantation of a fertilized ovum.”(no. 36)
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The woman who is a victim of rape has the moral right to prevent the pregnancy for the following reasons: First, the rapist (including his sperm) is an unjust aggressor who has violated the woman’s dignity. Second, rape is an act of force and violence, unlike the conjugal love in marriage whereby both spouses give freely of themselves in an act of unitive and procreative love. Third, the woman is not responsible for the action, and thereby has the right to prevent the pregnancy. (Please note that for these three reasons, this guidance does not violate the Church’ s teaching regarding contraception as expressed in Humanae Vitae, which, because of the free-giving between spouses, stated, "Each and every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life (no. 11).)
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In preventing pregnancy, most rape treatment protocols recommend anti-fertility drugs to be administered within 72 hours and over a period of several days. These drugs, such as Ovral, inhibit ovulation.
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Rence said:
There is no scientific evidence to prove that Plan B causes miscarriage, and that’s not why the Church forbids it’s usage. Yes, it can, no it hasn’t been proven. That’s not the point regarding the Church’s teaching on contraceptives.

The US Bishops have approved Plan B in the case of rape, if the woman has not ovulated, or is not ovulating, and has said that if the test to determine ovulation is not available and the woman is reasonably certain she has not/is not ovulating, she is permitted to use it. This does not in any way change the Church’s teaching on artificial contraception.

catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0566.html
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Okay, but if Plan B does not (according to those who support it) kill a fertilized egg, why worry about ovulation ?

"Plan B® One-Step is not effective once the process of implantation has begun. It will not affect an existing pregnancy or harm a developing fetus. "

planbonestep.com/plan-b-prescribers/how-plan-b-works.aspx
 
SpeakKindly said:
Okay, but if Plan B does not (according to those who support it) kill a fertilized egg, why worry about ovulation ?
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Because sperm can live in a woman’s body for up to 6 days. Therefore, taking Plan B if she has not ovulated yet, or is not ovulating, will help her to NOT get pregnant, by preventing ovulation from happening in the first place.
SpeakKindly said:
"Plan B® One-Step is not effective once the process of implantation has begun. It will not affect an existing pregnancy or harm a developing fetus. "

planbonestep.com/plan-b-prescribers/how-plan-b-works.aspx
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Yup 👍
 
SpeakKindly said:
Okay, but if Plan B does not (according to those who support it) kill a fertilized egg, why worry about ovulation ?

"Plan B® One-Step is not effective once the process of implantation has begun. It will not affect an existing pregnancy or harm a developing fetus. "

planbonestep.com/plan-b-prescribers/how-plan-b-works.aspx
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Do you know what that last sentence means? Pregnancy is defined as after implantation. This sentence however, does not cover the stage after conception but before implantation.

The FDA website that I posted earlier does say that Plan B may inhibit implantation. I will post it again. accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2009/021998lbl.pdf
CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
12.1
Mechanism of Action
Emergency contraceptive pills are not effective if a woman is already pregnant. Plan One-Step is believed to act as an emergency contraceptive principally by preventing ovulation or fertilization (by altering tubal transport of sperm and/or ova). In addition, it may inhibit implantation (by altering the endometrium). It is
not effective once the process of implantation has begun.
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If The Church say it is OK I must obey and say it is allright.

In medical terms, that is a contraceptive in all what that word mean. So I can not understand nor beleive that it will be a thing The RCC teach is right.

And there are risks in it as well. Every time we mess with normal body functions we can do more harm then good. I have not yet been able to read all about this “wonder drig” so I say nothing about that. But as a Catholic as well, I must defend life, every where and all the time. So, thumb down for this one. Yet one attempt to find a loophole, and as all before, I think this one will fail also. (Not to mention that it come with a number of side effects that may lead to been unable to have children.)
 
Statement on the "morning-after pill"
Pontifical Academy for Life, October 31, 2000
[Bhttp://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdlife/documents/rc_pa_acdlife_doc_20001031_pillola-giorno-dopo_en.html**
 
I am re-posting the link from my last post – the link wasn’t click-able.

Statement on the "morning-after pill"
Pontifical Academy for Life, October 31, 2000
vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdlife/documents/rc_pa_acdlife_doc_20001031_pillola-giorno-dopo_en.html

Here is some more information. So many Catholics are uninformed that IUDs and birth control pills, including emergency contraceptives, contain abortifacients.

Fact Sheet: Emergency Contraception and Treatment of Victims of Sexual Assault (USCCB Pro-Life Activities)
old.usccb.org/prolife/issues/abortion/ecfact.shtml

Abortifacients: The Teachings of the Catholic Church (Human Life International)
hli.org/condoms/258?task=view

Emergency Contraception? (Life Issues Institute)
lifeissues.org/abortifacients/emergencycont.html
 
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