contraception. This kit, called the Preven Emergency Contraceptive Kit, contains a home pregnancy test and two 0.25 mg levonrgestrel and two 0.05 mg ethinyl estradiol pills, one of each pills for the two doses (West). The purpose of this kit is to encourage women who experience unprotected sex to contact their doctor to obtain a kit instead of waiting, becoming pregnant, and having an abortion. All the actions taken by the advocates of postcoital contraceptives again illustrate their need to root their arguments in the potential economic, medical, social benefits to all countries. They truly feel that the development of various medications will actually prevent possible harms to women. The pro–life faction of the abortion debate do not view postcoital contraceptives the same way as its supporters view it. Anti-abortionists believe that emergency contraceptives as abortifacients and therefore the administration of these drugs is a form of early abortion. In an attempt to support this view, they cite references that define terms favorable to their argument. For example, according to the Signet/Mosby Medical Encyclopedia conception is “the beginning of pregnancy, this is usually taken to be the instant that the sperm enters an egg” (146). In addition, the World Book Dictionary defines contraception as “the use of … drug, … to prevent conception or pregnancy (451). Therefore, when the drugs acts to prevent a fertilized ova from implanting, it is not acting as a contraceptive because conception has already occurred, according to these definitions. Finding textual evidence to provide foundations for their claim, this group of people opposes this form of birth control by saying that it is morally unjust. In other words, one who uses such methods to prevent conception is committing a morally unjustified act. Their criterion is developed through the moral relevance this topic holds to numerous re...
