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Will the Morning After Pill Affect Your Unborn Baby?

What Happens when the Morning After Pill is Ineffective?

By Jody Morse, published Oct 01, 2007
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The Morning After Pill is becoming a very popular birth control method. The concept of the Morning After Pill is quite simple: You take it after you could have possibly gotten pregnant and it changes the uterine lining so that the egg is unable to implant itself. As with most types of birth control methods, the Morning After Pill is known to be pretty effective, especially when it has been administered immediately.

However, it is still possible for a woman to become pregnant after taking the Morning After Pill. If you took the Morning After Pill but have now found out that you are pregnant, the first thing that has probably crossed your mind is if the Morning After Pill can have an affect of some sort on your unborn baby. Here, we will take a much closer look at this issue.

The Morning After Pill Will Not Affect Your Unborn Baby

All of the research up until this date has shown that the Morning After Pill will have very minimal, if any, effects on your unborn baby. It seems that a baby whose mother became pregnant after taking the Morning After Pill has about the same chance of healthy development as a baby whose mother did not take the Morning After Pill. While there have been some known instances in which Morning After Pill babies had developmental problems, one could easily argue that the baby would have also had developmental problems even if they were not exposed to the Morning After Pill.

The Morning After Pill Will Not Affect Your Pregnancy

Another one of the things that you are probably wondering is whether or not the Morning After Pill can have an affect on your pregnancy. The affect of the Morning After Pill on your pregnancy seems to be minimal. It is possible for you to have a miscarriage if the Morning After Pill is exposed to an unborn baby during the first two weeks of pregnancy and it has an affect on the development of the baby. However, this has shown to be extremely rare.

Only Minimal Research Has Been Done on the Effects of the Morning After Pill on Children and Pregnancy.

 
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Great overview for anyone who's unsure -- thanks for writing this. My daughter is now just over three years old, gorgeous (yes, I'm biased), smart, healthy and obnoxious...typical kid. And yup, I took the MAP after a near-date-rape encounter. To Dana: while I considered abortion, it's not the same thing at all; one is prevention of a not-yet-existent pregnancy. The other is termination of an existing one. I'm pro-choice and glad the decision was mine to make, but in my case, the *choice* was to continue the pregnancy.

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Posted on 11/14/2007 at 4:11:00 PM

 
you are very smart, you can write about anything!

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Posted on 10/16/2007 at 5:10:00 AM

 
Yup....since I was in high school at least! Glad that you wrote this, too many people have no clue that "Plan B" as it's now called is totally and completely different than RU-486 (The "abortion pill") in that it will NOT affect an established (i.e. implanted) pregnancy. It's great info.

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Posted on 10/10/2007 at 1:10:00 PM

 
Interesting!

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Posted on 10/09/2007 at 11:10:00 AM

 
Very informative Jody :-)

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Posted on 10/08/2007 at 7:10:00 PM

 
Thank you for your comments everyone! I didn't know that it was around that long, Tracy, thanks for sharing!

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Posted on 10/08/2007 at 5:10:00 PM

 
Dana, a lot of people are against abortion, but are not against this form of birth control. Many women go out and have an abortion when they have not regularly done so, just because they are afraid of the effects that the morning after pill can have on an unborn baby.

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Posted on 10/08/2007 at 5:10:00 PM

 
Kassidy / Dalifona, I don't know that we'll be seeing tons of new research about this pill....it's been around for a long, LONG time, at least a decade. It's not like it's new, it's just coming to light more and more with the possibility (and reality in some places) of it becoming a non-prescription item.

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Posted on 10/08/2007 at 4:10:00 PM

 
I should add one more detail about the morning after pill--that the reason progesterone works to prevent a pregnancy is that if your body thinks it's already pregnant, it won't release an egg cell. That's where the prevention comes in. The reason it is important to take it within 72 hours of having sex is because that's how long sperm can live inside your body. But if you have already ovulated it's not going to do you any good. Just an FYI, hope it helps someone out there.

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Posted on 10/08/2007 at 6:10:00 AM

 
The morning after pill isn't going to affect an established pregnancy because it works by greatly increasing a hormone called progesterone. Pro + gest = promoting gestation. It's the hormone you make to help a pregnancy get established and stay established. Interestingly, the so-called "abortion pill" works in exactly the opposite way: It stops a woman's body from making progesterone. This is the big difference between emergency contraception and RU-486. I think, though, that it's kind of counterproductive to tell someone, "Oh, don't get an abortion, don't kill your baby" after they've taken the morning after pill because if they'd wanted a baby to begin with, why'd they take the pill? That's kind of silly. You may have strong feelings against abortion but that doesn't mean someone else does as well. I think a woman should only become a mother when SHE feels ready to do so, not when some random Internet stranger guilt-trips her into doing it.

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Posted on 10/08/2007 at 5:10:00 AM

 
mm...I wish this author knew I'd help them promote this article for FREE...I wish they'd ask me how and why...

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Posted on 10/06/2007 at 2:10:00 PM

 
Interesting article! Very well written.

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Posted on 10/04/2007 at 2:10:00 PM

 
Thanks for sharing this valuable information!

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Posted on 10/03/2007 at 1:10:00 PM

 
Interesting article. I agree that more research should be done on this controversial form of birth control.

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Posted on 10/03/2007 at 5:10:00 AM

 
Great info. I know that I had concerns when I became pregnant while on the birth control pill but my doctor said that there weren't really increased risks. I hadn't thought about the morning after pill, but I can certainly understand a woman being very anxious. It's good to hear that there are minimal risks with that too.

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Posted on 10/02/2007 at 7:10:00 PM

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