Volunteers are apparently plentiful as well. American scientists say they, too, get many requests from people who want to copy themselves or their loved ones. I have no doubt it will happen very soon. It is different from the so-called 'abortion pill,' RU 486, which can terminate a pregnancy up to 12 weeks after conception. Certainly the French ministers, the French journalists, and the millions of French teenagers who will consume these pills, know the difference.
Scientists also know that therefore both pills can technically cause abortions.
These hormones prevent implantation, not fertilization. Consequently, they should not be called contraceptive pills. Conception occurs but the blastocyst does not implant. It would be more appropriate to call them 'contraimplantation pills'. Because the term 'abortion' refers to a premature stoppage of a pregnancy, the term 'abortion' could be applied to such an early termination of pregnancy.