re: #213 Ian MacGregor

Conception is the joining of egg and sperm resulting in a new life. Certain means of birth control do not prevent conception, but block implantation. These have been thought of as contraceptives for years even though by definition they are not. I think the medical definition of contraceptives includes products which prevent conception and implantation. Certainly one can see why the inclusion of devices which prevent implantation but allow for conception as contraceptives could be bothersome. Such devices stop a newly formed human life from developing.

The same thing applies to emergency contraception. It may indeed prevent conception, or it may result in the loss of a new human life.

That depends on who you talk to, and is an essentially religious question.

As such, government needs to keep it’s nose out of it, and leave such decisions to the individuals involved.

Those with a yearning to ram their own religious beliefs down the throats of everyone else need to rethink what it means to be an American.