Someone possessing the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice could be prosecuted and sentenced to prison.

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    I hate that the lazy press call it an ā€œabortion pillā€. They are only taking the rhetoric of the lunatics. These drugs only delay ovulation, they donā€™t abort anything.

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      There are two different things:

      • the morning-after pill, which delays ovulation.
      • Medications which induce miscarriage, which are used, to say, treat an ectopic pregnancy or otherwise terminate a pregnancy which has already started.

      This is a ban on the latter.

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        They donā€™t induce miscarriage. It prevents implantation of a fertilized egg within the first 48 hours after sex. I is technically not an abortion since it hasnā€™t implanted and isnā€™t growing. The Pro-life extremist shouldnā€™t be upset over it since that is better than a surgical abortion and safer in many respects and they are NOT killing a growing child since it canā€™t form is it doesnā€™t implant in the uterus.

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          Youā€™re confusing two different things. The morning-after pill works the way you describe. The combination of mifepristone and misoprostol does not ā€” it can be used until 70 days after the last period.