Morning After Pill may soon be OTC. Thoughts?

[Twisterdog]

comparing a "possible" human life to a chicken is completely crazy in my opinion.

Well, actually, if you will read our analogies again, no one compared chickens to humans at all. Soledad compared an egg to a chicken. I, being hungrier or perhaps crasser, compared an omelette to fried chicken. We were comparing different stages of development of a chicken to each other .... no where did we compare humans to chickens. Small point, I know ... but I think it's important to understand the intended analogy.

Think about in vitro fertilization. A lab worker somewhere takes and egg and some sperm, mixes it all up in a petri dish, and looks at it under the mircroscope. If the sperm has pierced the egg, the lab worker watches it for a while, makes sure it's going to start to divide, then calls the doctor and tells him it can be implanted. Is it a baby? Or is it a cell that has divided once or twice? What if the lab worker slips on the wet floor and drops the dish? Is it murder? NO. A cell is not a baby. Also, if people are paying the huge sum of money required for in vitro fertilization, they are going to make the best of the odds, and try it with many eggs and a lot of sperm. What if, perchance, four eggs are fertilized at once? What happens to the others if only one or two are implanted? Are they "murdered"? NO. They are cells, not babies.

So, am I to gather here that a person who does not have brain activity due to an accident, or whatever reason, is not a person and does not deserve human rights?

Again, no one said that. No one mentioned fully developed human beings, who were injured in an accident. I believe Wolfchan was speaking of the development of the fetus, from cell to embryo to fetus. No one said anything about adult humans. There is a world of difference in the two, as anyone knows. I find statements like that simply be inflammatory.

I saw my baby's heart beat at six weeks (I know, long after the morning after pill would have taken place)

Exactly. Bingo. You hit the nail on the head. Six weeks compared to twelve hours. HUGE difference. One cell compared to a embryo with a beating heart. There is no comparison. And, again ... I would venture to say that they vast majority of women taking the morning after pill are not even pregnant to begin with.

There are lots of reasons someone might need to take this pill. If you are taking birth control pills and throw up, if you are raped, if the condom breaks, and sure - if you are just lazy or drunk or a poor planner. Should it be that way? No. Is it? Yes. The world is not perfect, people are not perfect, things happen.

This pill is what it is and nothing more or less. It is NOT automatic abortion of a fetus. Most of us are smart enough to figure that out. But, at any rate, the facts should not be misconstrued and tainted with emotion. If you are opposed to abortion, that's your right. But the morning after pill is not abortion.