Plan B in CT

My good friend Maggie in Florida called me yesterday and was more than a little upset about Catholic Hospitals in Connecticut approving distribution of Plan B to rape victims.

The usual red flags have been raised in my first perusal of the ABC news article.

The article states, “Plan B can lower the risk of pregnancy by up to 89 percent if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex. The drug works by stopping ovulation and has no effect on an existing pregnancy.”

#1. What is a “risk of pregnancy?” If conception occurs inside of a woman’s body, everything is in working order. Pregnancy when seen as a risk- like the “risk of cancer”- paints all occurrence of conception in the same grey light. When encountering someone who is pregnant one is now apt to ponder whether or not it was “on purpose.”

#2. It is incorrect to state that the “drug…has no effect on an existing pregnancy.” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration website states, “If fertilization does occur, Plan B may prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the womb (implantation).” If there is a fertilized egg then a new human life has begun.

In the article Plan B is also referred to as “medicine.” This is false. Medicine is something that helps heal or at best, manage something going on with the body that is negative. Plan B’s specific purpose is to inhibit a perfectly healthy occurrence~ that of new life.

Further in the article it is stated, “Roman Catholics believe that life begins at conception.”

Actually, the whole planet believes life begins at conception. Well, at least the scientific and medical community does. One of the only major entities that hasn’t gotten the message is apparently the people writing quick news articles for ABC.