March 27, 2006
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Morning-After Pill
Is there a difference between taking the pill as birth control before pregnancy and taking the morning-after pill?
Is there a difference between taking the pill as birth control before pregnancy and taking the morning-after pill?
Comments (193)
Nope….no diff
Candy
Yes there is.
Amanda
NONE
I wouldn’t know considering I have no need to take either.
i think not
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Hi Dan….hehehe
Candy
SECOND! NOPE….not really. Is there a difference b/w abortion and birth control… YUP.
to catholics no….
to protestants yes…
catholics…both are blocking the will of God
to protestants first one is ok…2nd one is murder…
Before prevents it….after gets rid of it.
it’s all the same. so, no, no difference.
No they both prevent implantation. They are the same medication.
Erika
Darn nm!
Yep… a baby could have been concieved.
yep, a girl can take like 5 birth control pills to get just about the same thing..
yes!
techinally, yes–birth control is taken everyday for three weeks straight & the morning after is just taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex
both are used for the same purpose–to avoid pregnancy. yes, in some cases BC is prescribed for other reasons but in this sense they are both being referred to as ways to not get pregnant.
i would have to look up exactly what the morning after pill does. but seems similar to me.
I’m not a big fan of birth control at all…..so really, I wouldn’t say there’s a difference at all.
No clue. I’m a before kind of girl though. I really don’t see how the morning after thing could work when you have to take the before stuff for about a month before it’s actually supposed to work.
Yes and no. they are different forms of medication, but they both do the same thing
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It’s the same thing as far as I’m concerned.
Wouldn’t know. *shrug*
BCP is proactive and MAP is retroactive
MAP can be taken up to 3 days after unprotected sex…
plus the MAP makes you really nauseous and you need to take gravol before
yes, both are a chemical abort process…
Before is preventing a life from forming. After is killing a life that has begun. One is preventative, the other is murder.
ryc: you weren’t kidding. seems like a few people don’t really know how the pills work. (some do, though)
interesting how people have opinions with no research or independent knowledge of their own.
very interesting . . .
RU 486 does act by a different mechanism, however regular hormonal birth control pills are also used (such as following a sexual assault), and are only different in dose than common pills.
Yes. Birth control prevents a life from forming (in most cases). The morning after pill can kill a baby that’s being formed.
i was taking b/c when i was first married…I’d have a hard time taking the morning after pill…
but then again, how long does it take for the egg and sperm to actually meet? could you take that pill before you actually concieved?
I wouldn’t take it, i think
I’m an IUD person myself. Having chronic migraines prevents me from taking the pill, and the things I have read about the morning after pill make me feel guilty about using it.
oh-yeah!
yes i did like derailed. it had it’s grusome parts at the end. the entire first 25 minutes sucked though. too slow. but since you’ve already seen that you know. it was all leading up to a con that you find out at the end.
you have to go deeper and ask, “What is the person’s heart issue for using birth control, or the morning after pill?” In all honestly, both the person using a bcp and the map are preventing the conception of a child. One is has just become more acceptable than the other. To me the motive behind each method is equal.
no
I would say that there is a difference between the two simply in how they work. However they do both prevent pregnancy, are legal and should be distrubuted to any woman who has the prescription.
No. One kills a little fetus thing (lookee, I’m technical!), one kills sperm. One could be associated with murder, one could be associated with twitching off. Or is masturbation murder now?
oh yeah. taking birth control is a way of planning and acting responsibly. the morning after pill is a cop-out on responsibilty.
YEAH THE MORNING AFTER PILL MAKES A GIRL LOOK LIKE SHE INDJESTED THE EBOLA VIRUS AND BIRTH CONTROL MAKES THEM GET FAT.
Yes the first is simply preventing it… the second is actually destroying a life.
Good question Dan…something I’ve been doing some thinking about lately….
Considering nearly 80% of the differen kinds of “The Pill” actually act as an aborticant (at least according to one study I read) I’d say there is no difference. In most cases, even the pill allows the conception process to start but not attach to the wall. So, if that is true than a life has been started and then destroyed. And I’m staunch in my beliefe that life begins at conception.
I agree that some people need to do their research on the morning after pill. This is not the “abortion pill” this is a medication prescribed to, as said a few times before, shed the lining of the uterus so that a possibly fertilized egg cannot implant. Basically causes a woman to have her period immediately.
I think so. The Pill is to prevent getting pregnant, whereas the Morning-After pill is to eliminate a possible pregnancy. There is a chance your pregnant, so you take it. You know your not pregnant if you use The Pill.
Not much, unless you define life as created when a sperm fertilizes and egg.
As a nursing student I can say that it highly depends on what type of birth control pill is used. I would venture to plead with everyone not to use it if not for moral reasons, for reasonability – it’s bad on women’s bodies. But the morning after pill I consider the same as abortion b/c you’re killing the new life inside.
birth control is a means of prevention of the fertilization of the egg i believe and the morning after kills it. but i’m not too clear on that, i just know a lot of people consider morning after abortion.
NOPE!
Birth control is prevention and the morning after pill is after the fact. Plus, can’t you only take the morning after pill 3 or 4 times max?
They’re pretty much the same thing.
The morning after pill, also known as ‘Plan B’ just coats the egg with a mucus to help protect it from the sperm and prevents it from entering. It does NOT stop pregnancy if it has already begun. This is a huge misconception. Birth control is NOT abortion.
Abortion is the abandoning of birth after the egg is fertilized.
Birth control is preventing it from ever happening.
The only pill that causes abortion is called the RU486 pill, which is VERY different from the ‘morning after’ pill.
People need to know this stuff before they answer.
Nope, there’s no difference.
Morning AFter/Plan B is used as backup in that few days window it could take for the sperm to enter the egg.
YES! If you take the morning after pill, conception may have already taken place. By conception, I mean a woman’s egg may have already been fertilized before taking the morning after pill. Esentially you are taking such a high dosage of the birth control pill that it stops to egg from implanting itself into the uterus. In my opinion, that is termination of a pregnancy. Whether that is right or wrong I’m not going to stay, but it’s still choosing to end a pregnancy, if the egg has been fertilized.
Yes, one prevents pregnancy and the other kills a baby.
Yes and no… depends on what time in the cycle she is if she takes the EC
To me, yes. Once created, it means you are aborting.
EC — Emergency Contraception
… can prevent pregnancy after unprotected vaginal intercourse. It is also called post-coital or “morning-after” contraception.
… is available from health care providers, Planned Parenthood® health centers, and other women’s health and family planning centers.
… is provided in two ways
* emergency contraception pills (ECPs)
* insertion of an IUD
… is used only if a woman is not already pregnant from a previous act of intercourse. ECPs prevent pregnancy by stopping ovulation or fertilization. IUDs prevent fertilization. Theoretically, EC could also prevent implantation, but that has not been proven scientifically. EC will not cause an abortion.
From http://www.plannedparenthood.com
Thank you emmerskue!
I am going to be honest and say I really do not know!!! ummmmmm yep dont know
difference post-coital is the higher dose every 12 hours x 2…but has to be taken within 72 hours of sex. this will make one pretty nauseous due to the higher amounts of hormones.
implantation may or may not have occured…the mechanism is different, but the ultimate job of regular birth control and “emergency contraception” is the same: prevention of pregnancy.
Meh, who knows? If you think that what amounts to a simple two celled organism meets the criteria of a conscious being, then yes. I personally think that once you know you’re pregnant, it’s morally too late. But I am pro-choice because I know of two many girls who have hospitalized themselves using “home grown” methods of abortions (ie. coat hangers) So I’m all for a morning after pill. If nothing else there’s plausible deniability.
somewhat…. the morning after pill doesn’t just prevent the fertilized egg front attaching to the uterine wall, it can stop conception from occuring in the first place if it’s taken early enough…… so it’s not necessarily the same as terminating a potential pregnancy compared to mifepristone or whatever it’s called
Yep one prevents it and one is for after
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The birth control blocks ovulation whereas the morning-after pill initiates a period so that any possible zygote would not be able to attach itself to the uterus. The latter could be seen as an abortion since it terminates a possible pregnancy.
yes in that the pill before makes you second guess what you might be about to do… sort of a gut check/final conscience attack before you go through with something if it’s bad.
the morning after is an after thought, which is more related to guilt.
why do people comment if they have nothing to say?
ryc: ur biggest fan is creepy.
Yes, a slight one anyhow. I’ve been on the pill twice, but for medical reasons both times, and am not sure how I would feel about taking it as a form of birth control…(birth control has not yet been an issue in my life). However, I would never dream of taking the morning-after pill because rather than preventing the possibility of getting pregnant, it makes it impossible for an egg that may have been or may be fertilized by sperm to attach to the uterine wall, thus killing a new life.
By the way, different birth control pills function in different ways, and if one is concerned with how it actually prevents pregnancy, you might want to check out how it works before you begin taking it.
yes.
I dunno. What do you think?
It seems to me that the morning after pill is a little more irresponsible. I am not sure if that makes sense…but to me, protecting from pregnancy (as well as STD) should come BEFORE the sex…and be planned out. Not after the sex in an “uh oh” fashion.
Clause: not that all people take the morning after pill like that. just the way my head perceives this all….(dont mean to offend anyone and have them leave hate posts on my site!)
only when/if it were done with consistency, as the method relied upon.
I take bc, and we use condoms. If both of these *precautionary* methods failed, and I could somehow know about it in time, I would purchase and use the so-called “morning-after” pill (which actually works within 72 hours of intercourse). I would not rely on this method, though, because a) it is expensive and b) would show a severe lack of planning skills and willingness to plan that I feel is indicative of a level of maturity not fit for sexual activity.
yes. birth control is just a preventative measure, the morning after pill is a destructive measure.
from what i have experienced… the morning after pill is used mainly in cases of rape. (please correct me if i’m wrong) birth control is fairly common. i think if i was raped i would take the morning after pill. but if i was just having ‘casual sex’ (such a horrible term) that i wouldn’t be inspired to take the morning after pill.
there are other things such as condoms… where do they fit in? are they different just because they are not injested orally? i would say for me… that condoms and bc pills are the same. the morning after pill would be something extreme… only for extreme circumstances.
so i guess the question is… do people see a difference in proactive and retroactive birth control? is that what you are getting at?
Not as much difference as there is between fornication and marital sex.
L,r
life begins at conception.
I think there is a difference. With the morning after pill the potential child is just a fertilized egg, a zygote. Many fertilized eggs don’t get past the embryotic stage, therefore it’s a bit more acceptable. Many people have problems with abortion because the stage is a bit further. I personally have no problem with abortion if it’s used with caution. I don’t agree with girls going out and getting pregnant numerous times and getting an abortion everytime. But abortion helps control the population.
I read that wrong and thought about abortion. There’s not much difference in BCP and the morning after. Except that BCP isn’t always effective.
Yes. The pill in a way stops pregnancy from happening. The morning after pill aborts whatever pregnancy there may be. Be safe! wear a condom!
The birth control pill (also called “the Pill”) is a daily pill that contains the hormones estrogen and progesterone that prevent pregnancy. Hormones are the substances that the body makes to control different functions of the organs in the body. In this case the hormones in the Pill control the ovaries and the uterus.
-http://kidshealth.org/
Emergency contraception (also known as the morning-after pill) is a high dosage of the birth control pill. It is recommended to be used after sexual intercourse, over a period of 72 hours, to achieve the goal of preventing (or ending) pregnancy. There are three different ways birth control pills are currently being promoted for this use: progesterone alone, estrogen alone, or both of these artificial steroids together.
-www.morningafterpill.org/
Nope. Both prevent pregnancy. The morning after pill is actually just a stronger dosage of birth control. Anyone who is against it, more than likely hasnt researched it to see exactly what it is that it does.
hmmm…. never taken the morning after. I would say there is no difference
just to clarify a common misconception:
the morning after pill does NOT harm the fetus…at all. it does NOT cause an abortion if you have become pregnant. the morning after pill contains hormones that cause you to not ovulate. the morning after pill is only successful if you have yet to ovulate in your cycle. it will do nothing for you if you have.
i know this because i too thought the morning after pill was an “abortion pill” and was totally, 100% against it…at least until i found myself in the situation i needed to find out more about it. it was not what i had thought it was. on the package it even has a disclaimer that says it will not harm an unborn child if you are, infact, already pregnant & the doctors i talked to confirmed this.
NOPE.
yes.
What do you think?
I used to think so.. but but now that I am more educated on the subject… and especially after recieving so many copies of the Celbrate Life magazine from http://www.all.org there really is no difference.. either way you are interfering with God’s will……
I would think a morning after pill would be less reliable.
[ariana]
I think taking the morning after pill shows the lack of responsibility by not being prepared and taking the proper protection in advance.
I actually have no idea.
Well, I don’t usually advertise this opinion, but since you asked, here goes:
I never took the pill for a couple of reasons. I don’t like the idea of taking things, that can have side effects that I can’t see. SOME people say that the lining of the uterus is affected by the progesterone in birth control pills, making it harder for a fertilized egg to implant. Newer birth control pills are lower estrogen, b/c estrogen can have annoying side effects, which means increased progesterone and higher likelyhood of the lining of the uterus being affected. There are a couple of Christian doctors, that I’ve talked to, that I really respect, who disagree with this. And there are a couple who I know who say that suppression of ovulation only happens some of the time. Certainly, it is the GOAL of birth control pills to suppress ovulation (prevent release of the egg), but since I can’t see what’s going on in there, and doctors and articles quote that suppression of ovulatin occurs anywhere from 30% to 97% of the time. This tells me that no one really knows how often ovulation is suppressed, and since I can’t see what those hormones are doing, I say, “Better safe than sorry.” . . I hate taking pills anyway. We stuck with [often ineffective] barrier methods instead. No hormones. Nothing going on besides creating a barrier. So after a full family of 5 kids, Papa Bear got snipped, and we don’t have to worry about it anymore.
The morning after pill would definitley be out of the question for me. I didn’t even want to contribute to the possibility of miscarrying a newly conceived zygote (heh -funny word), much less do it on purpose.
. . .So I never answered the question. Yes, there IS a difference, if birth control is only doing what it’s intended to do. But I was concerned that I might inadvertently [with the pill] cause my body to do what the morning after pill is INTENDED to do.
Yes,
yes. the morning after pill is cheating – it’s a way out of a bad decision, and pretty much the same thing as abortion. in incidents of rape or incest or some other extenuating circumstance, maybe, possibly i might change my mind, but other than that, i feel the same way about the pill as i do about abortion: if you can’t handle the consquences, don’t have sex. it’s really that simple. and if you’re mature enough to have sex and something happens, then be mature enough to face the consequences and have the baby.
“on the package it even has a disclaimer that says it will not harm an unborn child if you are, infact, already pregnant & the doctors i talked to confirmed this.”
i was completely unaware. boy, do i feel ignorant. this is really, 100% true?
Well, one prevents conception, where the other kills the potential conception.
yes…
it is the same actually, the people get upset about it, but it does not “kill” a pregnancy, it makes the uterus inhospitable for implantation. There truly is a difference, perhaps not in our intent . Some Christians I know don’t do “the Pill” for that reason.
takin if befor is preventing taking it after is killing.
ash-
as far as i know, ( haven’t read all the comment, someone may have said this already), BC prevents an egg from being fertilized. The MA pill kills of an egg that has been fertilized. So, yes, big difference I think, since life begins at conception…
Emergency contraceptive pill —referred to simply as “emergency contraception,” “ECPs,” or “ECs”, or “morning-after pill” —are hormones that act both to prevent ovulation or fertilisation, or the subsequent implantation of a fertilised egg (zygote).
ECPs are not to be confused with chemical abortion drugs like Mifepristone (formerly RU-486) that act after implantation has occurred.
yes- the birth control pill is supposed to (read suppossed to- i have a child concieved on the pill) prevent ovulation, and therefore conception. if conception does occur it is supposed to make it more difficult for the baby to implant.
plan b otherwise known as the morning after pill just prevents implantation and is more affective at it then the pill
knowing what i know now (the abortificant properties of the pill) i would not take the pill- but do see them differently
PPL confuse the RU-486, chemical abortion pill w/ the day after pill.
Well, yes…. Taking the birth control pill in advance in preparation of the fact that you are trying to avoid pregnancy is pro-active while taking the morning after pill is (obviously) after the fact.
Other than that – no, not really in that they both are measures taken to avoid a possible pregnancy.
Oh! and contrary to some of the opinions expressed previously here, the morning after pill could be taken when a woman is raped (and doesn’t want to – for whatever reason – report it) or when a woman has used another form of birth control that may have failed (such as a condom). We can not assume that a woman would take it simply because she didn’t consider all the ramifications of her actions.
Well as far as I know they are technically different meds…but they have the same end.
I can’t say I know all the details medically, but as airina05 stated, it’s proactive vs retroactive. It’s the difference between keeping anything from happening vs getting rid of what might have happened. “Getting rid of” is a poor way to deal with consequences.
can I just say that (in my opinion) it couldn’t possibly be against god’s will to use condoms, pills, etc. to prevent pregnancy because if that were the case, I’d also be doing so by deciding to not have sex… so by that logic wouldn’t being a nun be just as bad as using the pill?
I know… a little off topic… but I just had to
No.
Uh yeah. We were actually discussing this in my Bible class last week. While certain birth-control pills do have steps that they’ll take to actually kill a fetus if it is formed, they are mostly a preventative measure. There is a difference between preventing fertilization and killing a fetus (baby).
yea i gess. practilly killin. but although theres nottin there yet…….got hell if i know
ryc: so does fungus . . .
Well the morning after pill is emergency contraception. For example, if the condom breaks or if a couple forgets to use contraceptives. While they both require perscriptions, birth control pills are taken on a daily basis & the morning after pill is taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, and is not a form of birth control that a woman should take on a regular basis hence the name emergency contraception. Birth control pills are usually like 99.9% effective and the morning after pill is 97% effective if taken within 72 hours.
Interesting topic..my wife has one more month left of the pill and then we are going to try to have children…God willing as soon as possible..I ain’t gettin any younger..
No.
Morning After Pills to me is something you take after some romp with some person they just met. Whereas birth-control to me is something a pre-marital fornicator takes so she and her boyfriend won’t get a baby.
Personally, as I delve into the topic, I think Sex, and I don’t care if anyone agrees or not, i soley for reproduction. I know I’m merely a child, but in the biblical view of it, sex is not just some nice quickie. It is specifically for married couples no matter what anyone says and it is only for reproduction. There are a other ways to show affection anyway, and PLUS, making babies can also be pleasure. But people don’t get that, so that is why they take pills, which I will stop here since I returned to your point.
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There’s a difference. The birth control pill supposedly prevents conception, and the morning after pill creates a situation to deny the baby a place to live and grow. Fetus is a word that is used to make women and men believe that life doesn’t begin at conception. If it’s only a fetus your are getting rid of, then it’s not a real life. Of course, I’ve heard abortion professionals use the word fetus for a baby that is already kicking and making himself known to the mother. Just a fetus. Not a real life until natural birth occurs. If you believe this, you must enjoy the Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Anderson. You just can’t see the difference.
How can anyone say NO?
There is a HUGE difference.
When you take birth control, nothing is in there and it keeps it that way, when you take an MAP, there is something growing, even if its barely a speck of dust at the time. Not that I have an opinion for or against either one, I am a bit apathetic on this subject, but the fact is, they are not the same.
Yes, there is. You don’t take the birth control pill for rape cases. Birth control is planned. Morning after pill is sudden and unthought of.
Not that I care much about how either work, if they abort babies or not.. I’m just saying what I think. Although I’ve only been on birth control.
the second is murder in some ppls perspective
I think being on the pill is a more reliable and effective and responsible form of birth control than relying on the morning after pill, though the understanding is it usually is only used in an emergency– rape or the condom broke, etc.
They both are essentially the same thing, the morning after pill is just a stronger form of it. Both prevent ovulation and implantation, effectively preventing the prganacy before it happens (this is why the morning after pill is most effective iwhtin 24hrs, and becomes less effective the longer you wait).
it can take up to 48 hours for the sperm to even reach the inner of the vagina and up to a week for them to travel to the egg.. not to mention the time they wait for an egg..
so taking the pill the morning after has no different effect than taking it before
There is a differenct between birth control and the morning after pill, but no real difference between the morning after pill and an I.U.D. Both iritate/cause contractions in the uterus making it difficult for a fertilized egg to attach itself. The pill actually stops the droping of eggs all together which means there wasn’t a fertilized egg to begin with.
No difference imo
they both have the same end result, just a different route of getting to it.
idk..I think the birth control is better then morning after
There really is no difference. There is the slight possibility of fertilization occuring before the Morning-After Pill is taken, but you have to take it within 72 hours, so that chance is very, very slight.
They both cause abortions. At least the normal “pill” is not designed soley for the purpose of causing abotions like the morning after pill is. They are both immoral; they both prevent implantation of the zygote.
The logic the US Supreme Court gave for keeping abortion legal in the 1990s (I cannot find the exact case right now) was that if birth control was legal then abortion was required as a back up to cover method failure. Meaning that birth control leads to abortion.
I think they do about the same thing; may not work the same but both prevent fertilization or implantation.
YES
i feel like a lot of people with strong moral objections to OC/MAPs don’t quite understand the mechanisms of how they work. that’s a little frustrating to me. i feel like if someone’s going to oppose something, (s)he at least ought to understand what (s)he’s opposing.
the morning after pill seems more on the abortion side of things. like what somthingsgottagive said above “before prevents it…after gets rid of it.”
Shit, you’re thinking about sex a lot…
MAP is a definitely abortion in a pill. Which I am totally against. BCP, I’m not so sure how that actually works…
yup definatly
Yes. When you take birth control, you are preventing the pregnancy. When you take the morning-after-pill, there is a possibility that you’re killing another human being.
The same – one prevents fertilization the other prevents anything coming from fertilization. Both involve preventing the sex act from fullfilling it’s primary (some would say sole) function – procreation.
A fertilized egg is not a person; it the same as an unfertilized egg and a spermazod – the POTENTIAL to become a person. The fertilized egg is merely one step closer.
I dont know the difference
yea, the birth control pill is preventing birth.
the morning after pill is like a home-abortion in pill form.
p.s. do u even read ur comments?
yea , big differance
Yes and no.
I guess I wouldn’t know…
Yes, because after sex, a baby could have been conceived.
Is the morning after pill the same as ru486? If that is what you speak of than yes there is a huge difference.
higher dose is taken for morning after. other than that, its the same deal
I think so
i dont think so.. it still prevents a baby. but i dont believe women should be using the morning after pill as birth control. you should definitely be having safe sex.
If I’m not mistaken, the morning after pill is simply a birth control pill. But, it induces bleeding to prevent conception, if that’s what I remember…so, technically, it’s the same thing.
ABSOLUTELY!
One prevents pregnancy and ones kills a baby!
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My friend took the morning after pill after she had sex and it did work she still got preg. Birth Control lowers the risk by more then half when the morning after lowes the risk by 10%. (<So I have been told)
–Carleigh–
I can’t believe some of these answers.
You people who think the morning pill is ending a birth really need to go to http://www.plannedparenthood.com
They know a lot more about it than you.
Morning after is NOT a pregnancy ender!!!
It is a pregnancy PREVENTER.
Seriously, your arguments are horrible. Do your research.
Nope.
Someone above said it already but I guess they are just a tiny bit different “before prevents and after gets rid”
geez… do people not research things before they give their answers? it really annoys me when people just spout off an opinion with no scientific backings… i don’t think a lot of people understand birth control, the morning after pill, and the abortion pill! really, educate yourselves, people! then you can make an educated opinion based on it!
i personally stopped taking birth control (and i am married, not that that honestly makes any difference imo) because i didn’t like the fact that it has been proven to lead to a woman losing her sex drive… and it was definitely affecting me! i want to enjoy my husband, after all!
like someone above said, go to http://www.plannedparenthood.com and get educated! there’s a lot of info there dying to be acknowledged!
*Jac*
nope, both are contraceptive in nature. both prevent pregnancy. both prevent a child from growing. essentially, both kill.
not right.
There’s a huge difference. The BCP Not only is an effective means of birth control, but it also regulates your period, can clear up acne, lower the effects of PMS, and shorten the length of your period. It can even allow you to go 3 months without havign a period if you take the packs back to back.
The morning after pill is basically a morning after abortion. You have unprotected sex, you pop one within 72 hours, it kills any fertilization that’s taken place. It doesn’t give you any of the benefits.
BCP = preventative maintenance, though some women don’t use it for birth control. I went on it at 15 for regulatory purposes.
MAP = retroactive maintenance, it’s a great tool for women who get raped – in fact, they issue them to you if you get raped, it’s part of the “rape kit” nowadays.
yes!
And to the person who thinks that BCPs kill, they actually don’t. They keep your body from releasing any eggs, so they don’t kill anything. DO YOUR RESEARCH!
scientifically, there is a difference, since one prevents ovulation, and the other prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall to grow.
morally, i don’t think there is a difference.
some actually believe that the after morning pill is like a form of abortion. i dont feel like there is a big difference.
No difference. The morning after pill is basically a higher than usual dose of a standard daily birth control medication. No implantation – no problem.
the morning after pill is just a stronger dose of a BCP. i think some ppl are confusing the MAP with the abortion pill.
I don’t see any difference.
No. Except that people want to regulate your body more if you pick option #2.
Yes, there is a fine line between the diferences. Birth control pills, you take for weeks at a time, and the other pills, well, you know where i’m going.
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no, it takes up to 72 hours for the sperm to actually get inside the egg. the morning after pill is used within 48 hours meaning it is not killing anything, it is simply preventing it.
YES big difference. From what I understand the pills you take beforehand prevent sperm and egg from ever meeting. The morning after pill stops the process once it has taken place VITAL difference. Although I toward the ehtical persuasion that both are innappropriate. One being a waste of perfectly good seed and a waste of an expression of love and the other being the murder of a developing human.
…and considering planned parenthood’s record with my political persuasion I wouldn’t trust what their site says as far as I could throw them.
Okay I’ve done the research and you can take the morning after pill to prevent ovulation or delay it long enough for the sperm to die. I disapprove but no that’s not murder. However there is also the chance of the egg ovulating anyways in which case sperm meets egg and with all the high amount of hormones there that shouldn’t be there the lining for the fetus is altered either killing the new-formed babe for lack of nutrition or creating a very dangerous pregnancy.
Not sure really, I’m more of a “don’t do the deed and you don’t have to prevent it’s consequences” kinda guy.
The morning after pill cannot end an already developing embryo. It doesn’t “KILL” (in the words of over-dramatic people). If you get pregnant, taking the emergency contraceptive won’t help.
YES!!! Before just prevents the egg from being able to be fertilized after would kill a baby if you were pregnant.
the first one is taken to prevent conception, because it stops ovulation. The second (the morning after pill) prevent a fertilized zygote from attaching to the uterine wall, killing it, and ultimately a human.
Not really. But the pill represents taking responsability ahead of time, and the morning after pill usually represents a mistake (and it also makes you feel really crappy for awhile!).
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yes, big difference.
no, not really. taking the morning after pill just keeps anything from implanting…
its the same medication as in the birth control pills…actually my BC pills are the actual ones they give for morning after pills…you just take several instead of one.
Birth control seals off the passage to the ovaries, preventing conception. The morning after pill kills the sperm and the egg, and if the sperm already made it to the egg then it kills the baby-to-be.
ru-486 a.k.a. the morning after pill will prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the mother’s womb while birth control simply prevents fertilization. For pro-lifers that believe that life begins at conception, it is a huge difference. The real question is really ‘when does life begin’?
Birth control pills prevent ovulation. They do not prevent implantation because there is no fertilized egg to implant. The morning after prevents implantation of a fertilized egg (assuming there is one).
Or you could buy this little 75 cent wonder called the condom
I dont get it…
“to catholics no….
to protestants yes…”
This is why religion shouldn’t be involved
Abstinence, the socially-conscience panacea.
scientifically-yes
morally-no
i’m catholic…and either way you’re preventing a child to come into this world
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Don’t know and don’t need to know!!!
Just do it whatever way you like!!!!
There are two different kinds of morning-after pills. One is basically a stronger version of normal birth control hormones. The other is chemicals specifically designed to kill the fertilized egg. The rest is personal opinion, and I have yet to hear consistantly conclusive theological statements from any church other than the Catholics, who are mostly against both.
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Ignorance is dangerous.
Neither one kills or stops a pregnancy.
They both prevent somebody from having an abortion.
If somebody is already pregnant, NEITHER will stop the pregnancy.
yes
No, because while I think proper forms of birth control are fine, certain hormones in the pill are also abortive, so in many cases it is basically the same thing.
They’re both against my religion.