Emergency contraceptive pills don’t induce abortion, says US regulator

Emergency contraceptive pills work by inhibiting or delaying ovulation and are not abortifacients, the US drug regulator has said after reviewing the scientific evidence.1The Food and Drug Administration said that it was prompted to review the mechanism of action of emergency contraception after Foundation Consumer Healthcare, the company that has owned the product Plan B One-Step since 2017, applied for a change to the wording on its packaging in 2018. It is thought that the review was delayed because of the covid-19 pandemic.Before the change was announced on 23 December, packages of Plan B One-Step and generic versions said that the pill might work by preventing implantation of a fertilised egg in the uterus.The wording was used by some antiabortion campaigners to say that using emergency contraception was equivalent to having an abortion, a message that has become more pertinent since the right to abortion in the US was overturned…
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