I would like to know where this belief comes from. Discussing this change of law like this, with vague anecdotes and fears, is outright dangerous, since the argument is essentially against giving people appropriate medical information.
In this case, from personally having conversations with two women who essentially said "I forgot the pill that day, but had sex anyway and got plan B in the morning".
Also the context in this subthread is about commercial advertising and the impression of "cool", not about medical information. Completely separate ideas.
People have always forgotten to take any pill they have to take regularly. Plan B gives people an option they didn’t have before when that happens. There’s no evidence there that Plan B causes people to take the pill less regularly.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/contraception/miss-combined-pi... - “ If you have missed 1 pill anywhere in the pack or started a new pack 1 day late, you're still protected against pregnancy.”
This is literally the context of the speculation in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31883497
I'm done with this thread. Too many people jump to conclusions and don't understand threads of conversation.
Plan B, in this case the morning after pill, is a different beast from what we usually discuss when talking about abortion. There are no real negative consequences when taking it (even more so when compared with contraception pills) so I am not sure why you are so afraid.
IUDs are much better than pills anyway, and you can forget about them without issue. They also don’t cause hormone-related problems. If you are serious about your argument, you should advocate for this sort of device (and also abortion, because even if they are generally reliable, 0% risk does not exist).
> Also the context in this subthread is about commercial advertising and the impression of "cool", not about medical information.
That is a misunderstanding of the law in question, for which “advertising” means “making people aware of it”, and does include things like what is put on a doctor’s website and any document they distribute.
Well, it might be a different cast for you, today. But the people writing laws in conservative states don't see it that way. Many of them are looking to ban anything that stop pregnancy after sex, specifically including plan B pills. A few extremists are even talking about going after contraception too. It isn't about scientific definitions. It is about increasing the risk of pregnancy in order to dissuade young people from having sex.