[Levin]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Isn't the morning after pill simply a super-dosage of the pill? I don't equate the MAP with abortion and find your opinion to be too tightly wound up. I agree with your relatives and not with you.

Don't make an eighteen year pay a lifetime for such a decision. When life becomes legitimate and begins is unknown to me, but it sure doesn't seem like it's immediately after conception. If it's okay to take the pill, and it is, then it's okay to take the MAP, as they are virtually one and the same.

The MAP can result in a chemical abortion, while most often it's effective before implantation. Even when it works to prevent implantation, I see a difference between the pill before and the MAP. One prevents life from starting; the other halts it after the first steps have been taken.

I'm very sympathetic to the Catholic view on birth control. That is, I understand it, and my view of the MAP comes from the same impulse that gives rise to my sympathy. It's about monkeying around with life and the means by which it comes into this world.