"It depends on how you define abortion," says Ob/Gyn physician Jeff Andrews of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. But what he means is -- if you obfuscate and distort language enough, perhaps you can hide the awful truth behind the language. In this particular case, Dr. Andrews is defending the poisonous abortion drugs in the 'morning after pill."Later in this brief news story, however, Andrews acts as if he's forgotten there are reasons for the controversy as he states this bold untruth, "Plan B could not possibly be an abortive fashion because it acts before implantation and does not affect the pregnancy after implantation. That's been proven."
Bad doctor!
"Plan B" drugs act exactly like "birth control pills", only more so because of the dramatically increased dose of the same hormones. And the science is clear and incontrovertible -- though the drug's primary purposes may be contraceptive, it also acts to severely thin the lining of the endometrium of the uterus, making it inhospitable to the developing baby when "breakthrough ovulation" has led to a fertilized egg.
And, yes, Dr. Andrews knows full well that this happens.
No, what has been proven, and proven by the drug manufacturers themselves, is that the "morning after pill" does have mechanisms that act both before and after conception. It is an abortifacient.
But in the enthusiasm for abortion, even people like Dr. Andrews here, undoubtedly responsible in applying science in other areas of their work, leave their heads (and their hearts) on the shelf.