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CuriousLord -> RE: Court rules that pharmacists can refuse morning after pill (11/17/2007 12:48:50 PM)
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The side effects can be a bit.. questionable. The pill works via shoving a heavy dose of hormones into the woman's body; the intended effect is to alter her sexual organs surficiently enough to kill a fertilized egg within them, or to pass it, where it would die.
Since it doesn't always work, sometimes, the woman's just exposing the fetus to a bunch of hormones, which has been shown to cause birth defects (though, admittedly, this specific pill hasn't gone through trials; just, in general, a flood of medicinally-incuded hormones like this has been shown to cause a high rate of birth defect). I'm not educated enough on the specifics of the pill to understand the physical consquences for the woman taking it. As it's a lot of hormones.. I mean, it can't be great to take once, but I haven't heard single instances of it being unhealthy. For a woman who takes it regularly? I'm.. well, that sounds rather risky to me, but I'm not sure what effects it may have on her health. I have my doubts that anyone's all that positive at this point, though some of the side effects are probably documented by now.
As always, my objection to the pill stands on the basis of the pill being an abortion, killing an embryo which could've been a human being like anyone else here. To me, if a woman is willing to risk the effects on herself, that's her business. If she's willing to risk the effects on a child that fails to be aborted by the pill.. well, that's questionable; but since I already object to the pill, it's only redundant to consider how the woman is endangering the health of her possible newborn.
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