GOP goobernatorial candidate calls the iud an 'abortifacient' - The Rachel Maddow Show
say you're a human sperm.
(har - u just sed u wuz a hoomin spermz... neway)
you're a healthy sperm from an "active" gentleman, so everything works just fine with you. you're out on the town looking for a lovely round lady to make a baby with, so you get yourself deposited at the door of your favorite pub and...
THE MUSIC IS SO GODDAMN LOUD THAT IT SHAKES YOUR EYEBALLS IN YOUR LITTLE SPERMY HEAD. EVEN IF THERE WAS AN EGG HERE, YOU'D NEED A BLOODHOUND TO FIND HER AND WELL-DEVELOPED TELEPATHY TO TALK TO HER.
and so you leave, you and her both, right out the same door, completely unable to have conceived your Destiny (or Steve, or Elizabeth, or whoever) because the environment where you were supposed to meet was just too hostile.
an intrauterine device works by altering the chemistry of the uterine environment such that the sperm and egg can't do what they're supposed to do. because no baby is ever conceived, the iud is, by definition and function, not an "abortifacient". in fact, it is the complete opposite. women can and do conceive children while using the iud. the problem is that those fertilized eggs then implant in parts of the woman that aren't her uterus. ectopic pregnancies aren't just painful. they can take the woman's fertility... and sometimes her life.
if republicans wanted to argue that iud's were dangerous, they could, but they can't call something an "abortifacient" when the danger it poses comes as the result of its inability to terminate a pregnancy.
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