Someone possessing the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice could be prosecuted and sentenced to prison.

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    6 months ago

    I hate that the lazy press call it an “abortion pill”. They are only taking the rhetoric of the lunatics. These drugs only delay ovulation, they don’t abort anything.

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      6 months ago

      There are two different things:

      • the morning-after pill, which delays ovulation.
      • Medications which induce miscarriage, which are used, to say, treat an ectopic pregnancy or otherwise terminate a pregnancy which has already started.

      This is a ban on the latter.

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        6 months ago

        They don’t induce miscarriage. It prevents implantation of a fertilized egg within the first 48 hours after sex. I is technically not an abortion since it hasn’t implanted and isn’t growing. The Pro-life extremist shouldn’t be upset over it since that is better than a surgical abortion and safer in many respects and they are NOT killing a growing child since it can’t form is it doesn’t implant in the uterus.

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          6 months ago

          You’re confusing two different things. The morning-after pill works the way you describe. The combination of mifepristone and misoprostol does not — it can be used until 70 days after the last period.