The Morning-After Pill

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The paper proposes that birth control would prevent the 800,000 abortions performed annually in the United States. The writer describes how the availability of new emergency birth control, the morning-after pill, has caused the anti-abortion forces to swing into full gear with cries of "immoral" and "irresponsible." The writer argues that for more than 60 million American women of childbearing age, more than half of whom wish to avoid pregnancy, the morning after pill is a product they need and want. The paper explores what the pill is and how it works, answers some of the objections to it, and explains why it is needed.

From the Paper:

"Those opposed to the morning after pill say it is just another blow to families. Neff (1997), for example, complains that it was not manufacturers who wanted FDA approval for a morning after pill, but "the so-called women's groups--political advocates of a narcissistic individualism who want to sever sex and its pleasures from reproduction and its responsibilities" (p. 11). If this is so, if it was women themselves who called for emergency contraception, it shows that women want and demand control over their bodies and reproductive capacity."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Ferriman, A. (1996). The day after sex. New Statesman (London, England), 127 (4388), 5 June, 28-29.
• The morning after sex (2005). The Christian Century, 121 (3), 5 Feb, 10.
• Moore, K. (2005). Missed conception. The Nation, 277 (2) 24 July, 14.
• Neff, D. (1997). Mourning the morning after. Christianity Today, 41, 7Apr., 11.
• Sarler, C. (1996). At last! A pill giving power to the poor. New Statesman (London, England) 129, 16 Dec. 18.

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