What is the Morning After Pill (Also known as MAP)?
It consists of two tablets of levonorgestrel and progestin taken 12 hours apart, generally within 72 hours of intercourse.

What are the side effects of MAP?
Possible side effects include:
* Nausea and Vomiting
* Irregular and unpredictable menstrual periods (especially on multiple uses)
* Ectopic (tubal) pregnancies, which can be life-threatening
* Breast tenderness
* Infertility

How does MAP work?
There are three ways that MAP can work.
* By suppressing ovulation (female egg production in the ovary)
* By thickening mucous in the cervix which blocks sperm passage
* By making the lining of the uterus hostile to implantation and causing an abortion.

Is MAP contraception or abortion?

Women who choose to use MAP will never know which has happened, because MAP can be both. If a woman has not yet ovulated, MAP works as a contraceptive by suppressing ovulation. However, if she has become pregnant, but the embryo has not yet implanted, the use of MAP is an abortion. Chemicals such as these that cause abortion are called "abortifacients".

Source:  Heritage House, 'The Morning After Pill, Get the Facts Brochure.

RU-486 "Abortion Pill"

Must be used within 49 days from the first day of your last period. (During this time, the babies heart has begun to beat, five fingers on each hand have formed, and the eyes are easily distinguished).

The RU-486 process involves a series of pills that would induce the chemical abortion, followed by several visits to the clinic for cervical exams.  The first would deplete the lining of your uterus. It basically would prevent progesterone in the body from working, and as that occurs, the blood supply to the developing embryo would shut off and the baby would suffocate to death. Two days later the patient returns to the doctor's office to receive the second pill, prostaglandin, which is taken to induce labor, causing the patient to deliver the baby.  5% of women still require surgical abortions to complete the process.

RU-486...What to expect after taking this pill

* Bleeding (up to a month)
* Possible Infection (RU-486 suppresses the immune system)
* Possible hospitalization due to hemorrhaging
* Possible miscarriages or birth defects of future children
* Extreme sleep disturbances
* Impaired future fertility

Source: RU-486 Sure? Focus on the Family Brochure 2000

Post-Abortion Syndrome

What Do Abortion and Breast Cancer Have In Common?

More Accredited Information from

The Breast Cancer Prevention Institute

There is one abortion for every three live births.

Source: Care Net 2002

Psalm 139:13-16 (New International Version)

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

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