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<p>[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 4672647"]I will try to avoid the legal/ethical/political questions you ask. Where you stand is dependent on your definition of pregnancy, assuming that your definition of abortion is the stopping of pregnancy.</p><p><br /></p><p>For background, Ella and other emergency contraceptives work primarily by delaying ovulation. The secondary mechanism could include prevention of implantation (i.e. changing the uterine lining). Ella has no effect on an egg that has implanted in the uterus. So if implantation occurs, Ella will not prevent that pregnancy.</p><p><br /></p><p>So here are the two schools of thought.</p><p><br /></p><p>From a scientific/clinical perspective (including ACOG) pregnancy occurs once a fertilized egg has implanted to the uterus. Basically a woman is not pregnant at fertilization, but at implantation. So in this definition Ella or other forms of emergency contraception are not abortifacients since they have no effect on an implanted egg. That's why medically the products are classified as emergency contraception.</p><p><br /></p><p>Others consider pregnancy as occurring once the sperm fertilizes the egg. So in this definition a woman is pregnant as soon as fertilization occurs. In this definition of pregnancy, some may consider Ella an abortifacient because there is a chance that Ella will prevent that egg from implanting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will leave it to you and others to answer the religious/legal questions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 4672647"]I will try to avoid the legal/ethical/political questions you ask. Where you stand is dependent on your definition of pregnancy, assuming that your definition of abortion is the stopping of pregnancy. For background, Ella and other emergency contraceptives work primarily by delaying ovulation. The secondary mechanism could include prevention of implantation (i.e. changing the uterine lining). Ella has no effect on an egg that has implanted in the uterus. So if implantation occurs, Ella will not prevent that pregnancy. So here are the two schools of thought. From a scientific/clinical perspective (including ACOG) pregnancy occurs once a fertilized egg has implanted to the uterus. Basically a woman is not pregnant at fertilization, but at implantation. So in this definition Ella or other forms of emergency contraception are not abortifacients since they have no effect on an implanted egg. That's why medically the products are classified as emergency contraception. Others consider pregnancy as occurring once the sperm fertilizes the egg. So in this definition a woman is pregnant as soon as fertilization occurs. In this definition of pregnancy, some may consider Ella an abortifacient because there is a chance that Ella will prevent that egg from implanting. I will leave it to you and others to answer the religious/legal questions.[/QUOTE]
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