Morning after pill and framing

[sandnsea]

An EC bill has been introduced in Oregon which got me to thinking.

EC has been labled the morning after pill. Wohoo! Sex sex sex!! As I recall, it was the pharmaceutical industry that marketed EC that way. Isn't that right?

So how did liberals get stuck with the amoral label on EC when we didn't have a thing to do with how it was promoted, initially?

If we'd been thinking, or whatever, and it had been marketed as an abortion prevention medication, would we be ahead of the game now?

Because that's what it really is. Prevent pregnancy, prevent abortion.

What caused us to miss how bad "morning after" a one night stand was going to end up sounding?

[amazona]

1. it was "morning after" rape or date rape

Women who know they are sexually active have more options. It is the woman who is raped, the woman who is date-raped, the woman who is primarily celibate or lesbian who has an unplanned encounter with a friend that turns romantic...these are the women who would benefit most from a "morning after" pill. Maybe "morning after" wasn't such a good name, but usually before your molestor jumps on you, he doesn't ask if you've had a chance to put in your diaphragm.

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[TorchTheWitch]

2. I believe it was also meant for contraception method malfunction

like the condom breaks, the diaphram shifted, you need to be bumped up a dose on your BC pills.

Incidently, when I took the pill briefly after a few months, I got "spotting" in between periods. Thinking there was something wrong with me, I went back to the doctor, and she said she wanted to do a pregnancy test because the spotting meant that I needed to be bumped up a dose on my BC pills... the doctor NEVER told me when I first started taking them that there would be times when I would need to be bumped up a dose or when first starting the pill, they needed to figure out by trial and error what dosage would be most effective and that during these times you may or may not be protected. None of the literature ever said anything about that either, and I read every word.

edit: grammar

[PA Mamma]

3. I’ve always said Emergency Contraception !!

And try not to say “morning after pill”

Maybe because it was developed and widely distributed in Europe and they have less repressive attitudes about sex and women’s bodies ???

As for the women who know that they will be sexually active having more options when the condom breaks...I guess waiting 8 weeks to get that illegal coat hanger back alley job would be one option.

[Horse with no Name]

4. Ya know

I love the way you think. Truly, since I have been on DU, you have always been one of my favorites.
You are correct, we need to get these thing back to being so inflammatory.

[sandnsea]

5. Thank you

I think. :shrug:

I was much younger when I first heard of morning after pills. I was young in California in the 70's. Need I say more? I hope not. It never occured to me until today that perhaps 'morning after' weren't the best words to use.

[cajones_II]

6. Then there's "Plan B"

which is basically a megadose of hormones, same effect less danger.

In my youth, women routinely took four birth control pills as a type of "morning after" treatment.

This is about two things at it's core:

control of women
puritanical view of any sex as bad.