Is Plan B the same as an abortion?

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Please explain your opinion and knowledge below. And please be mature and considerate of other people's opinions. All I ask is no attacking others beliefs.

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It's not a matter of opinion. It's a matter of FACT. If someone thinks it's an abortion they're ignorant and/or uneducated.

Plan B PREVENTS pregnancy by one of the following: 1. Preventing the release of the egg from the ovary 2. Preventing fertilization of the egg 3. Preventing implantation of the egg to the uterus.

This all happens BEFORE the zygote is even formed.

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Plan B doesn't work if you're already pregnant. It even says it on the box. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy.

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FYI: adding to my other comment.... A fertilized egg is only composed of TWO cells! TWO! It has no brain, no heartbeat. A tomato seed has more potential for life than a fertilized egg.

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I honestly don't believe they are the same thing. With plan B you're kind of  preventing getting pregnant because you take it within such a short time after having unprotected sex where as an abortion you're killing something that's already been alive and growing in you.

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It's kind of like birth control over the counter. Except used for emergency and not to be used constantly. So no, not abortion. Prevention.

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Not at all. It is destroying a *possibly fertilized egg. You aren't even a hundred percent sure an egg got fertilized. And it doesn't allow it to attach to the uterus. At the point of taking the plan b pill it is literally just cells. Basically the same as a form of birth control. Just much much stronger.

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First of all this belongs in the controversy center but I can't resist. Plan B STOPS fertilization. No baby! No fetus! Just an egg and a sperm who wanna meet up but the plan b is a total cock block. Abortion, is taking a life fetus, who is growing, and you are kinda stopping it's life. I'm not getting into pro life and choice I'm trying to be neutral. But plan b is definitely not abortion.

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No. As plan b isn't RU-486. Plus they wouldn't, sell an rx prescription on the shelves of a store.

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The plan B pill is basically a high dose birth control pill. If you happen to get pregnant before you take it, it won't kill or harm the baby. The pill basically prevents the egg from being released, fertilized, or sticking to the uterine walls pretty much like birth control

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No cause Im pretty sure (not entirely sure)  that it just prevents the egg from getting fertilized.. That's why you have to take it within a certain time.  Atleast that's what I always thought.

Is Plan B the same as an abortion?

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