Abortion Euphemisms March On
The so-called morning after pill, also known as the emergency contraception pill or ECP and Plan B, is mistakenly described as a contraceptive but really isn’t since it doesn’t prevent a pregnancy and isn’t designed to. The pill is an abortafacient which terminates an existing pregnancy and kills a human being at the earliest possible stage of its development.
Call it by whatever euphemism you choose, the ECP has been around for years now but only in 2009, another great advance, did it became available without a prescription for 17 year old girls in the U.S. It may be on its way to the scrap heap, however, supplanted by the “five or seven days after pill” developed by HRA Pharma.
Maybe to make it more user-friendly, that French company quaintly assigned the pill a name, “ella.”
Legal for some time in Europe which is usually ahead of the curve when it comes to “progressive” thinking on matters of sex and abortion, our FDA approved ella as a prescription drug last Friday.
In actuality, the morning after pill had been mis-named . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1845)
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