by Bill Fancher, Jody Brown, and Sherry Black
(AgapePress) – A pro-life advocate says a prominent medical association is promoting abortion by misleading women about the effects of the morning-after pill.
Dr. Thomas Purdon is president-elect of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He recently issued a call to action to his organization's 40,000 members, encouraging them to offer an advance prescription — which ACOG refers to as “emergency oral contraception” — to their patients as a way to help reduce the nation's rates of unintended pregnancies and abortion.
“[I]f enough of us are talking about this fallback method, we may find emergency contraception to be as common in most women's homes as a first-aid kit,” Purdon says in a news release.
American Life League spokesman Scott Weinberg describes Purdon's call to action this way: “A group of renegade doctors are rounding up women for morning-after pill abortions by providing advance prescriptions that women and young [teenage] girls … can keep in their medicine cabinets [so they can] pop these dangerous and abortion-inducing chemicals the morning after they have recreational sex.”
“The doctors who are promoting this are going on national television, misleading American women by saying that these pills … can't cause abortion,” Weinberg says.
According to Weinberg, the doctor who developed the morning-after method implored during clinical trials that the abortion-inducing nature of the chemicals must be considered.
Debate in the UK
The United States is not the only country dealing with the abortion issue. Great Britain is also debating the ethics of the morning-after pill.
An English high court judge recently granted the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) permission to seek a judicial review into over-the-counter sales of the morning-after abortion pill. The abortifacient drug prevents an egg from being fertilized or actually stops a fertilized egg from implanting in the lining of the womb. According to the London Evening Standard, the SPUC contends the pill causes miscarriage and contravenes abortion law.
(This update courtesy of Agape Press.)
