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...test cases, and relatively mild side effects like soreness and inflammation at the injection site, dizziness and nausea. For the needle-phobic, T-20 may cause a few problems - patients are required to inject themselves twice a day. But for most, even multiple injections are preferable to the incessant pill-counting and precise timing required by current drug regimens. Scientists are also optimistic about the second, more advanced compound called T-1249, which is up to 200 times more active than T-20, and is delivered via one daily shot...
...thanks to technology, there is a new point of contention - the advent of the so-called "morning-after" pill, or emergency contraception, has introduced a new wrinkle in the battle over abortions. Women can take the hormone-laden pills (essentially a super-dose of regular birth control pills) up to 72 hours after intercourse to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. Depending on the stage of a woman's menstrual cycle, the pills will either keep an egg from making itself available to a sperm, or will stop a fertilized egg from implanting itself into the uterus...
...Until now, the morning-after pill, introduced in the States in 1998, hasn't caused too much fuss, unlike the much-discussed RU-486 pill - with which it is sometimes confused - which is a true abortion drug that can be used as far as 60 days into a woman's pregnancy. But there were some disgruntled mutterings when Dr. Thomas Purdon, the new president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, announced Monday that he believes women should be offered advance prescriptions of morning-after pills, which they can keep in their medicine cabinets. At present, the drug...
...choice advocates, Purdon's recommendations are welcomed; the picture on the pro-life side, however, is a little more fuzzy, and there has not been as much outright opposition to the morning-after pill as there has been about other developments (such as RU-486). The pills, in fact, have sparked a great deal of uncharacteristic reticence from the usually vocal lobbyists at the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC). So much so, that last month, the relatively radical American Life League (ALL)called the NRLC to task for its silence on the morning-after pills, which they believe...