There's a big line that can't get crossing - sure, it can leaned over - but not crossed. So, my long experience with FDA - drug companies can make statements that aren't supported by data. What's your source to say that there were no studies with respect to fertilization? As a former staff member of a drug company, I can vouchsafe that if the company didn't run the tests for Plan B specifically, they most certainly referenced other clinical studies that demonstrated that the progesterone inhibits fertilization and, if fertilization had already occurred (as it could if the woman delays up to the 72 hour post intercourse time period), it inhibits attachment to the uterine wall. It has cadres of scientists, and lawyers who make damned certain of that. With respect, Mac, but the FDA does not post misleading information. I don't know why others care so much about my soul - doesn't it make more room for them in heaven if I fail to show up because I have or haven't exercised my conscious? God must have been having a schizo day that day. Fundamental, book-thumping Christians who don't even know - they are that ignorant of the book use to beat us over the heads with - that their very "inspired word of God" contains, in the first book, two completely different versions of Genesis. Unfortunately, I'm getting frakking sick and tired of Christians who think they can tell me what to believe. You respect another person's faith, as best you can, and hope they offer you the same courtesy. I was taught to understand that there are rights and wrongs, and yet that there are lot of things in between that we can never KNOW. I simply don't get it - I was taught to respect individuals' beliefs. What I fail to understand in the debate is what gives any of these folks the right to decide for ME what is between me and my God. It is too close to the "Every Sperm Is Sacred" notion of life. Personally, I have a hard time drawing the Human Life Line that far back. It's the third aspect that bothers those who believe that life begins at fertilization. So, how the drugs works to prevent pregnancy in an individual depends on where she was in her cycle when she took the two doses (within 72 hours of unprotected sex). It does three different things to prevent pregnancy: 1) inhibits ovulation, 2) disrupts fertilization (joining egg and sperm) and 3) prevents adhesion of a fertilized egg to the uterine wall. Its mechanism of action is quite similar to the pill. Plan B is a super high dose of the progesterone - the key ingredient in birth control pills. As the FDA indicates, it can also prevent implantation after fertilization. Source: I know some people claim that prevention of implantation does not constitute abortion, but the original post that you linked to (for some reason, your link doesn't connect to the original post any longer) claimed that it only prevents fertilization. If a fertilized egg is implanted prior to taking Plan B, Plan B will not work. If fertilization does occur, Plan B may prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the womb (implantation). It may prevent the union of sperm and egg (fertilization). Plan B acts primarily by stopping the release of an egg from the ovary (ovulation). How does Plan B work? Plan B works like other birth control pills to prevent pregnancy. This is from the FDA's website, in a Q&A section about Plab B: 3. MacAllister, This post got me wondering about the Plan B opposition, since it claimed that there is no abortion involved, only prevention of fertilization. Blaming lawmakers is a simplistic action, the real problem is our public education system passes morons out into society, instead of holding them back until they get it. No way are they going to cross their admittedly ignorant constituancy, and they are not empowered to suddenly make these people see reason. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of republican office holders cringe when these people call them up and tell them they won't see any support next election if they don't speak out against plan B, but what are they going to do? They were elected on more than one issue and have a duty to represent the voters (not that I think duty is really on the minds of a lot of them, but staying in office is). Unfortunately, a 6th grade education is all that federal law requires before someone is allowed to vote (that and be 18, of course). I have a college degree, in the sciences, no less, and I had no idea how plan B worked, so I doubt a lot of the religious right (with their general aversion to science in the first place) do either. Seems to me we shouldn't attribute to a conspiracy what can be chalked up to plain old ignorance.
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