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The idea of emergency contraception —-or a morning-after pill—- is based on a theory. Under this theory, if a woman has unprotected sexual intercourse (without use of contraception, contraception failure or cases of rape) and fears she may become pregnant, she can take large doses of birth control pills to prevent a pregnancy.

Emergency contraception, essentially, is a high dosage of the birth control pill. It is recommended for use after sexual intercourse, over a period of 72 hours, to achieve the goal of preventing pregnancy.

There are three different ways birth control pills are currently being promoted for this use: progesterone alone, estrogen alone, or both of these artificial steroids together. Again, these are the same steroids found in the typical birth control pill.

Two of the most commonly used emergency contraceptive pills are Preven and Plan B.


Is Emergency Contraception Safe?

Not only could EC kill a tiny preborn life in its earliest stages, but the 'morning-after' pill is also very dangerous to a woman's health.

If one reads the patient information package insert for regular hormonal birth control (remember, emergency contraception is a mega-dose of the regular birth control pill), one will find that the side effects of hormonal contraceptives include:

Head/Brain

Cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding into the cranial cavity)
Cerebral thrombosis (blood clot that drains blood from the brain)
Melasma, which may persist (skin discoloration; usually dark, irregular patches)
Migraine
Headache
Dizziness
Eyes

Retinal thrombosis (blockage of the central retinal vein that carries blood away from the eye)
Change in corneal curvature (steepening of the cornea)
Heart/Blood

Thrombophlebitis and venous thrombosis with or without embolism (blood clots in the veins)
Mesenteric thrombosis (blood clot in the major veins that drain blood from the intestine)
Hemorrhagic eruption (bleeding eruption)
Arterial thromboembolism (blood clots in the heart)
Pulmonary embolism (arterial blockage, usually from a blood clot, that cuts off one lung's blood supply)
Myocardial infarction (heart attack)
Budd-Chiari Syndrome (closing of the veins that carry deoxygenated blood from the lower half of the body into the heart)
Hemolytic uremic syndrome (kidney failure and low platelet count in the blood)
Dr. Ellen Grant, writing in the Lancet (2001) has expressed the concern that ". 5% of women have a genetic susceptibility to thromboembolic disease (blood clots)." When these women take the 'morning-after' pill - which is equal in strength to taking 50 regular birth control tablets - a blood clot might form. [Grant E. Adverse reactions and emergency contraception. Lancet. 2001;357:1201]

The dose of estrogen in the current birth control pill, which is erroneously billed as "safe", has potency four times greater than that of the estrogen used in hormone replacement therapy (HRT). HRT has been conclusively shown to increase the risk of stroke (41%), pulmonary embolism (113%), breast cancer (26%), and coronary heart disease (29%).