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TAIPEI, January 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Experts such as Taipei Medical University Hospital gynecologist Liu Wei-min claim that eliminating the need for a prescription for the morning-after pill will reduce the abortion rate and lower the incidence of teenage pregnancies. Many “experts,” including Liu, also claim that the morning-after pill does not induce abortion, but delays ovulation, and thus classify the pill as “emergency contraception.” The F.D.A. agrees, classifying the morning-after pill as a contraceptive.

But Canadian Physicians For Life president Dr. Robert Pankratz counters that, in approximately 75 percent of cases, the morning-after pill is abortifacient, in that it makes implantation of a newly formed foetus impossible. 

A large portion of the deception stems from the altered definition of “pregnancy” used by the “emergency contraception” pushers. While pregnancy commences at fertilization (conception), those bent on pushing the drugs have conveniently redefined pregnancy as beginning at implantation. Despite the denials, research on morning-after pills has shown their primary effect to be the halting of implantation. Textbooks on embryology state clearly: “After fertilization, the pre- implantation embryo remains extremely vulnerable. The ‘morning-after’ pill, with its high estrogen content, alters the endometrium so that implantation fails to occur …” (Human Embryology and Developmental Biology, by Bruce M. Carlson, M.D., Ph.D., 1994, p. 110.) 

The rapid proliferation of abortifacient “emergency contraception” around the world in the past few years, has been engineered by the International Consortium on Emergency Contraception, a group of abortion supporters.

Experts argue that making the pills more accessible could lead to teens engaging in activities they might otherwise not do, based on the false sense of security inherent with availability of the pill. The increased availability of the pill also raises concerns over increased exposure to sexually transmitted infection, in turn sparking a significant increase in cancer, infertility, and HIV/AIDS. 

Studies have shown use of the drugs to be strongly associated with the incidence of breast cancer, cervical cancer, blood clots, infertility, stroke as well as a ten-fold increase in ectopic pregnancy.

Taiwan has Asia’s highest teenage birth rate, at 1.3 percent for girls aged 15 to 19 years. 

See previous LifeSite story: 

Republicans Against Over the Counter Morning-After Pill