The idea of preventing access to, or even discouraging the Pill or the morning after pill is ludicrous. If that's protecting human life, by preventing its murder, then maybe we should have to prosecute any woman who has intercourse but doesn't deliver a live baby.
If I remember correctly, between 30% and 50% of fertilized eggs never even established in the womb. Of the remaining 50%, only 80% of those survive to become an established functioning fetus. If my math is right, then up to 60% of fertilized eggs are terminated naturally during the first trimester.
No one knows the cause of every one of those lost embryos, or even that most of those miscarriages have occurred when they do, but we know it's happening. If a human is found dead or we know that humans are dying and the cause is unknown, there is an investigation into the deaths, people are looked into for murder, and the matter is dealt with to the satisfaction of society (ideally). There's a good reason why we don't do that with embryos, why we don't have women tested every month to see if they've conceived, why we don't lock pregnant women up in baby farms and monitor their lifestyle and diet, and why all those people who are shouting about protecting human life at that stage are being too extreme.
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I've seen papers say that its really more like a 70% die-off. That's about the time I decided first trimester is too early to worry too hard about. At LEAST don't count anything until implantation, when medically pregnancy begins. :)
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