Missed Birth Control Pills
and the Morning After Pill

There seems to be a lot of confusion and even some controversy over missed birth control pills and the morning after pill.

There are three different kinds of birth control pills that people talk about as if all three were the same. This simply is not the case and is not factual or logical.

Taking a logical look at the situation we see that there are three different kinds of birth control pills.

1. The regular daily Birth Control pills.

2. A "morning after pill" which is an extra dose of the regular pill, for rare use at times when the regular daily pill was missed.

3. The controversial "abort" pill.

We do not report on the third pill at all and it is not considered a preventative.

The actual morning after pill is simply a stronger version of the same daily birth control pill. Women take this extra dose when they have forgotten to take the daily pill for two or three days in a row.

It is similar to taking two or three regular pills to "catch up" - which some women do but which is not advised by doctors.

Many women admit that when they have forgotten to take their pill for two or three days that they have gone into a panic and then taken both or more daily pills together on one day.

Doctors decided to make a pill that would be more of a precise dose and hopefully more safer for this purpose.

That is the actual "morning after pill." It is only to make up for a couple of missed days of the regular pill. It contains the exact same ingredients as the daily pill but at a higher, measured dose. That is the connection between missed birth control pills and the morning after pill. The higher dosage pill simply makes up for a couple of missed pills.

People who call this an abortion pill are mis-informed. It is a birth control pill and a preventative. It prevents pregnancy -- it does not stop, end or abort pregnancy.

There is a pill that does stop pregnancy but it is not the morning after pill, it is an abort pill and it should be called what it is.

Even the media seems to call all the pills by the same name and add to the confusion.

To read more about the actual morning after pill see the page titled missed birth control pills.

The topic of birth control is a highly personal and emotional issue. We are not giving any advice whatsoever.

This page is simply to clear up the confusion and questions created by people who call two different medicines by the same name.

If you think you may be pregnant, or may be experiencing the early signs of pregnancy, be sure to take a pregnancy test.

Talk to your doctor. Get factual information about missed birth control pills and the morning after pill. If you take the daily pill, put it with your vitamins or toothbrush were you will remember to take it. Then there won't be any need to worry about a morning after pill anyway.

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