20010202Un experto de la Universidad de Navarra dice que la 'píldora del día después' fomenta la frivolidad
University expert says 'morning-after pill' encourages frivolity
The Vice President José López Guzmán points out that it is not a contraceptive method, but "abortive because it is intended to eliminate the embryo".
Métodos ¿anticonceptivos? postcoitales is the degree scroll of the research with which the Vice President de Alumnos de la Universidad de Navarra, José López Guzmán, has won the IV contest El farmacéutico en defensa de la vida.
The work, in which Vice President has invested three years, begins with an introduction on current postcoital contraceptive methods (danazol, mifrepistone, emergency mini-pill...), with special emphasis on the effects of the so-called 'morning-after pill'.
From there, it is concluded that this drug is used to provoke the elimination of the embryo in its initial stages. "That is why -explains the expert-, in the research there is an approach to what the embryo is and to the ideological speech articulated to assign the appearance of human life to different stages of the embryonic development ".
research awarded for its defense of life
Professor López Guzmán concludes that, if the embryo is a human being, any attack against it is illicit: "Although they are trying to sell the 'morning-after pill' as a contraceptive method, it must be demonstrated that it is not, that it is abortive because it is intended to eliminate the embryo".
Therefore," he continues, "to provide it indiscriminately in pharmacies, even without a prescription, as is already done in other countries, is irresponsible. Adolescents, the public most exposed to this subject of methods, in addition to suffering at an early age the side effects caused by the high intake of hormones, are led to a frivolization of sex. This fact is even more worrying when it occurs in a sector of the population that is still in the process of being formed".
The award of the contest, organized by the association Spanish Association of Catholic Pharmacistswill be presented to Vice President next Saturday, the 3rd, in Madrid, coinciding with the celebration of the workshop in Defense of Life.
Among others, the president of the organizing association and José Miguel Granados (Deputy Director of the Family and Life Commission of the Spanish Episcopal lecture ) will take part in the event.