The quote from Kirsten Moore, Reproductive Health Technologies Project, in the Saturday article about the five-day emergency contraceptive would be humorous if the subject wasn't as serious as abortion. Ms. Moore stated that "approval of the drug, ella, shows that the FDA is committed to restoring scientific integrity in its decisions."
A closer look shows that science is probably the last thing with which the FDA is concerned. The only way to call this drug a contraceptive is to change the definition of pregnancy which the abortion industry has been attempting to do, unfortunately rather successfully, in recent years. Medical textbooks, scientific reference works, and prominent scientists and physicians consistently agree that human life begins at conception (fertilization of the egg by the sperm) which can happen within 30 minutes of intercourse. The abortion industry has convinced many that a woman isn't pregnant until the fertilized egg implants into the uterine wall which can take up to three days. Thus, under this false definition ella is passed off as a method to prevent pregnancy. In reality the drug will, in most cases, effectively deprive the already developing child in the womb of the nutrients he or she needs to live. And no studies have been made of the potential birth defects for children who are born when ella fails.
In addition to concerns over the effect of the drug on the baby, there are health concerns for women who take the drug. Though the drug is called an emergency contraceptive, in some ways it operates the same way as the abortion drug, RU-486, which was also approved by the FDA, but has caused numerous deaths and over 1,000 reported negative effects on women.
Actually the FDA seems to be much more concerned about politics than it does about science or health. Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America stated that the FDA underscored the point that this is driven by politics when it released its decision late on a Friday when people are not paying attention.
The abortion industry continues to produce methods to more effectively destroy human life while our society is more concerned about protecting animals. I have nothing against animals but it's time to put the emphasis back where it belongs ... on protecting human life at all stages of development.
