What on Earth is a "Risk of Pregnancy?"

As the "Morning-After Pill" continues to debut at a pharmacy near you, we will be hearing of more and more pharmacists refusing to sell the drug.

A pharmacy owner and two pharmacists have recently sued Washington state due to a new regulation that requires them to sell this form of emergency contraception.

"So what's the fuss?" One may wonder.

Well, for one, one of the functions of the "Morning-After Pill" is to mess with the lining of a woman's uterus. If a woman does conceive, the new life cannot implant inside her uterine wall. The supporters of "emergency contraception" drugs claim that if there is no implantation then there is no pregnancy.

Science begs to differ.

After all, a woman is still able to conceive- and that newly conceived life is just that- a new life.

The pharmacists are claiming that this mandate violates their civil rights by "forcing them into choosing between 'their livelihoods and their deeply held religious and moral beliefs."

Typically pharmacists with personal objections to certain drugs can simply have a co-worker fill an order instead. Personally, I think that is sort of pointless. If I were a pharmacist and didn't want to give someone a certain drug, how is my mind reconciled if I just turn to a colleague and have her do it? "Hey, I don't want to do this bad thing- you do the bad thing!"

The Associated Press once again out-does itself by describing the drug this way: "Sold as Plan B, emergency contraception is a high dose of the drug found in many regular birth-control pills. It can lower the risk of pregnancy by as much as 89 percent if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex."

To which I ask, "What on earth is a risk of pregnancy?" Are there little baby terrorists that invade women? Or does new life come naturally? Are women to put crazy chemicals in their body to try to ward off what is completely healthy? How on earth can people say that women are empowered when women are also told that there is an emergency if a baby is in their midst?

Then again the Food and Drug Administration already paved the path to brilliancy when it made the morning-after pill available without a prescription. Apparently the FDA sees no problem declaring that women's perfectly healthy bodies are "risky."