Ella requires a prescription, which ordinarily requires a person to be examined by a health care provider with the medical training needed to assess health conditions and the legal authority to write prescriptions. But the Planned Parenthood Direct app avoids this problem by providing the woman a prescription directly through the app. All you have to do is answer a few questions, upload a confidential selfie photo, enter payment information and\u2026voila\u2026your \u201cemergency contraception\u201d will be on its way. Order by 1pm eastern time Monday through Thursday and your order will be delivered to you the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The app is based on the premise that the user is providing accurate information, but what if they\u2019re not? For example, what if a minor girl wants \u201cemergency contraception\u201d through the app? It appears all she has to do is enter a date of birth that makes her appear to be older. That\u2019s good enough for Planned Parenthood. They tell users, \u201cIn some cases, the answers you give here will be the only source of information that our providers use to evaluate and treat you.\u201d They must know that minors will be tempted to use their app because they make it clear they expect the \u201cinformation you give is truthful including: your location; your health information; your age.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Setting aside the potential for minor girls to misuse the app, any thinking person can readily ascertain that to accept Planned Parenthood\u2019s description of Ella as \u201cemergency contraception\u201d requires the willing suspension of disbelief. After all, virtually everybody agrees that conception occurs when sperm fertilizes an ovum and from that very moment, the woman is pregnant. Within hours her body begins to undergo changes to allow the conceived unique being to live and grow in the woman\u2019s womb. You cannot \u201cprevent pregnancy\u201d five days after pregnancy has already occurred. Doing so is called an abortion, and that is what Planned Parenthood is actually promoting. It\u2019s an abortion app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Planned Parenthood knows that selling abortions via their app will be a big turn off for most women. That is why they pretend that the Ella pill is birth control. They go to great lengths to try to convince women that they are not being complicit in abortion by taking Ella, telling them, \u201cEmergency contraception is birth control, not abortion. It doesn\u2019t end a pregnancy \u2013 it prevents one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n How can a woman whose egg has been fertilized by sperm be said not to be pregnant? It requires the same type of manipulation of logic and language that Bill Clinton used to defend his statement under oath that there was nothing going on between him and Monica Lewinski. \u201cIt depends upon what the meaning of the word \u2018is\u2019 is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Planned Parenthood argues that there are three stages of conception \u2013 ovulation, fertilization and implantation. Only after the embryo (which they call a \u201cball of cells\u201d to avoid any inference that it is a human being) has been implanted in the lining of the uterus do they consider the woman (or under today\u2019s parlance of the woke a \u201cbirthing person\u201d) to be pregnant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sadly, Planned Parenthood enjoys cover from a prominent medical association in their distortion of when pregnancy occurs. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) makes the same preposterous claim, one that is rejected by the overwhelming number of obstetric physicians and gynecologists. In fact, a survey of over 1,000 OB-GYNs published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that only 28% of OB-GYNs accepted the ACOG definition of when pregnancy begins. Some 57% of the profession believe conception begins at the moment of fertilization while the rest are unsure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why would ACOG promote the Planned Parenthood position that pregnancy occurs with implantation when members of their own profession overwhelmingly reject that position? The answer is simple: OB-GYNS are the ones who perform many of the nation\u2019s abortions. And as the author of the survey study said, if pregnancy is said to begin at fertilization, \u201cthen you can see why any technology that prevents implantation would be problematic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n When an embryo is removed from the lining of the uterus, the endometrium, it is aborted. This can be done medically through drugs like RU-486. Similarly, when an embryo is prevented from implanting in the endometrium, it is aborted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Planned Parenthood contends that Ella works by preventing ovulation of an egg thus preventing fertilization. However, medical experts such as those at Drugs.com say that Ella \u201cmay also make it harder for a fertilized egg to attach to the uterus.\u201d Furthermore, Ella\u2019s FDA-approved drug label states that \u201calterations to the endometrium that may affect implantation may also contribute to efficacy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A number of non-profit pro-life research organizations, including the Charlotte Lozier Institute, report that Ella and RU-486 share similar chemical properties. Both are progesterone antagonists that act by blocking progesterone receptors in the endometrium. \u201cThis action can prevent the endometrium from becoming capable of receiving and nurturing the embryo,\u201d the Institute reports. An Issue Brief published by the Family Research Council, citing numerous medical authorities for support of its statements, says flatly, \u201cElla can cause an abortion\u2026Ella can cause the demise of an embryo already implanted in its mother\u2019s womb, in addition to preventing implantation after fertilization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is unfortunate that women are being misled about the nature of the Ella \u201cemergency contraception\u201d pill. Contrary to their assertions, Planned Parenthood is not promoting \u201cbirth control\u201d through their app, they are promoting abortion. If their \u201ccommunity standards\u201d mean anything, Big Tech platforms should look into banning this app, or at a minimum requiring that women receive a clear warning before signing up to receive the Ella abortion pill. But protecting women from misinformation from Planned Parenthood Direct\u2019s app is not deemed to be necessary by tech\u2019s \u201ccommunity standards.\u201d Instead, their standards lead them to ban promotion of information from pro-life groups like Live Action and Heartbeat International about how women experiencing immediate regret after taking the abortion pill might explore reversing the effects of the pill. Doing that<\/em>, Google and other Big Tech giants insist, is \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new app from Planned Parenthood Direct promises women access to “emergency contraception” birth control. 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