More on Proposed Bush Admin. Reg Defining Birth Control Pill as Abortion

Wall St. Journal: Treating the Pill as Abortion,  Draft Regulation Stirs Debate, by Stephanie Simon:

Set aside the fraught question of when human life begins. The new debate: When does pregnancy begin?

The Bush Administration has ignited a furor with a proposed definition of pregnancy that has the effect of classifying some of the most widely used methods of contraception as abortion.

A draft regulation, still being revised and debated, treats most birth-control pills and intrauterine devices as abortion because they can work by preventing fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus. The regulation considers that destroying "the life of a human being."