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Morning After Pill vs. Abortion Pill: What's the Difference?

With the FDA's approval of the abortion pill, RU-486, women seeking abortion now have an alternative to surgery. The FDA also recently approved the morning after pill, or emergency contraception. Although the abortion pill and morning after pill are very different medications, they are often confused. Below, two medical experts discuss the critical differences between these two new developments.

How is emergency contraception different from the abortion pill?
BEVERLY WINIKOFF, MD: Emergency contraception is taken after intercourse, but before a woman misses her period. So it is taken at a time when a woman doesn't know if she is pregnant or going to get pregnant. The pills are, at this moment, prescription pills, but they are actually the same formulations that are in normal contraceptive pills. There are two kinds. There is a combined contraceptive, which is Preven, and there is a levonorgestrel, or progestin-only contraceptive, which is called Plan B. Those are really the same as the pills in oral contraceptives. They are just your everyday contraceptives, but done in a different way so that women can take them after they have been exposed to potential pregnancy, but before they are pregnant.

Mifeprex, or mifepristone, which is the early abortion pill, is taken after a woman is sure she is pregnant. She's already gotten a pregnancy test and it's positive. Those women have the option of ending a pregnancy very, very early using a medication rather than getting surgery. So the distinction between these is large and it's important that people understand that emergency contraception, which is the morning after pill, is not at all a medical abortion.
RICHARD HAUSKNECHT, MD: Absolutely correct. And that distinction is really very, very important. These are two entirely different phenomena.

BEVERLY WINIKOFF, MD: If you want to look at it in a simple way, you take the abortion pill when your pregnancy test is positive. You take emergency contraception, when your pregnancy test is negative.

How many hours after sex is the emergency contraception effective?
RICHARD HAUSKNECHT, MD: "Sooner is better than later" applies to emergency contraception, but most of the studies show that it is reasonably effective up through seventy-two hours.