Ladies, New Morning After Pill Holds Promise

It used to be that if you had an “oops” moment with your partner, or with a one time or occasional partner, however it was,  and it was unprotected sex, or the condom broke or something else happened where you feared you might become pregnant from the romp, you had only very limited time to call a doctor and have them prescribe for you the most common morning after pill – called Plan B, or marketed under the drug name Levonorgestrel.  From there, if you were more than three days out of the gate with your unprotected or questionably protected sex, you could just forget about it, because it’s effectiveness was only prescribed for three days after the event.

In other words, if it was three days or more after the sexual incident from which you were trying to prevent a full on fertilization of the egg by sperm, then you were SOL and would have to pursue a normal pregnancy termination, which I believe can only be done at 3 months, so a woman would have to be pregnant for three months knowing she was going to terminate the pregnancy, which is an awful psychological thing to go through for most women. And yes, I am Pro Choice, if you can’t tell already, and I’m a woman who has gone through these dilemmas myself and thought about what I would do if that happened to me, so I feel that I am close to the subject matter.

When it comes to female sexuality, a lot of people (and yes, a lot of them are men which I think is particularly unfair since they don’t know what pregnancy is like), seem to think that women don’ t have a choice, and that once they are pregnant, that’s it, they’ve made their choice, and no matter what their life situation or goals or aspirations are, they should just deal with it and have the child and give it up for adoption or take care of it themselves.

That is why the “abortion pill” as it’s been dubbed is such a life saver for a lot of women.  It takes a lot of the ethical considerations, and although it doesn’t get rid of them because it’s been debated at what moment life actually begins, it at least makes it a lot easier on the woman.  A new pill actually allows a woman to take the morning after pill up to 5 days after unprotected sexual intercourse, which is a whole two days more than the current existing 3 day morning after pill, which gives a lot more leeway for a couple or a single woman to have control over their bodies and their life situations.