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

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

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
    17·
    7 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.

    • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
      68·
      7 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.

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
        181·
        7 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.