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Ethical and legal issues in contraception
Ethical – is contraception and contragestation similar?
- Contragestation could be considered as contraception that work after the embryo has been formed.
- The ‘morning after pills’, IUD (the coil) and the recently, but not available in all countries, Mifepristone (RU486) may be grouped under this category.
- Ethically, would disallowing implantation be considered as an abortion?
- No as the above method are not equal to abortion as the women would need to ‘carry’ (i.e. be pregnant) before she can be considered as had a miscarriage.
Ethical – other methods
- Similarly, the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority (HFEA) UK considers pregnancy as ‘after the embryo has become implanted’.
- Since all contraceptive methods (except RU486) act in preventing implantation by making the endometrial lining ‘unwelcoming’.
- It is therefore not considered as an abortifacient.
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