"The Emergency Contraception Education Act is built on a deliberate misstatement of the truth. This bill's deceptive language masks the killing potential of so-called emergency contraception, or EC," said Ed Szymkowiak, national director of STOPP International, a project of American Life League.
"The bill says EC prevents the 'implantation of an egg in a uterus,' but an egg doesn't implant in the uterus. The truth is that EC sometimes prevents the implantation in the uterus of an already conceived human being -- a human embryo -- and thus EC will cause that unique person to die at an age of about 5 to 7 days."
The Emergency Contraception Education Act (S.1990), introduced on March 6 by Sen. Patricia Murray (D-Wash.), would appropriate $10 million for each year from 2003 through 2007 to promote EC. "Planned Parenthood is supporting this bill in order to profit from greater sales of their EC kits," said Szymkowiak. Planned Parenthood reported providing 310,000 kits in 2000. "A Maryland Planned Parenthood clinic told me their kit sells for $30. At that rate Planned Parenthood's 2000 income from 'emergency contraception' alone would be over $9 million."
Dr. Bogomir Kuhar, author of "Infant Homicides Through Contraceptives," told Szymkowiak that research statistics from reputable sources indicate that early abortion from "emergency contraception" occurs roughly 75 percent of the time. "At that rate, Planned Parenthood's 310,000 EC kits would have caused roughly 232,500 pre-implantation abortions," said Szymkowiak.
The fact that "emergency contraception" causes abortion is the basis for a March 5 decision by Argentina's Supreme Court. The court banned the sale and use of EC, ruling that life begins at conception and that EC is indeed an abortifacient.
Release issued: 14 Mar 02
