Plan B

SORRY. Got to break the habit of not spell checking, and link checking before submitting. BAD SKEPTIC!

The media seems to have a problem, with science, politics, social issues, news stories...

ANYWAY!

To science and medicine.

Plan B. I imagine the term provokes one thought or another in your minds (Yes, I know. Duh!). Still, it is an unfortunate that too many choose to tie it to abortion. For the Pro-Life lot, they are...I can't expect much. But the media, they choose ignorance or to accept the louder yells from the Pro-Life lot as facts.

It is quite simple. Plan B does NOT equal abortion. Okay?

Feministing - PLAN B

Plan B can be taken up to 72 hours after sex, and works by preventing pregnancy. If a woman who takes Plan B is already pregnant, it does not cause an abortion.

The trouble is Plan B is confused with RU-486. THIS IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THING!!!

Mifeprex (RU-486) is taken between 3 and 10 weeks after a woman
is confirmed to be pregnant, and causes an abortion.

COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!

Sadly...

* Only one in five women knows about EC [Emergency Contraception].
* One-third of those women confuse Plan B with RU-486, the abortion pill.
* Less than 8 percent of women really understand how EC works and when it should be used.

SO, we rely on the media to clear this up. Help women understand what medicines are available to help them. To inform people of what medicines do what.

Time magazine has trouble understanding this.

The ignorance in the media is not as bad as the ignorance they spread or confirm. So consider expressing your concern about their inaccuracies.


More from Feministe.

They have email addresses for Time.

Also some notes on the good info in the article.

The article is otherwise fairly interesting, and it does point out that criminalizing abortion does not lower the abortion rate, and only results in women’s deaths...

Abortion is illegal in Latin America largely because of the influence of the Catholic church. There are a great many Catholic leaders and individuals throughout Latin America who see the harm that illegal abortion has caused, and who back abortion rights because they see what it looks like on the ground. But the church as an institution has caused significant harm to women in Latin America. Thousands of women die every year from unsafe abortion. Hundreds of thousands (millions?) are injured. In Mexico alone, more than 100,000 of the 500,000 women who procure illegal abortions every year are hospitalized — a full fifth. Two thousand die.

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