Italian physician says ella should be absolutely 'condemned'

Reacting to the recent approval in Europe and the U.S. of the new drug ella, Lucio Romano, president of the Rome-based Science and Life Association, said today on Vatican Radio that the pill should be absolutely “condemned.”

Pro-life groups in the United States have denounced the drug because it has been marketed internationally as an emergency contraceptive, while claims have emerged that it acts instead as an abortifacient. Ella was approved on August 13 by the FDA for distribution in the U.S. and was approved for European distribution in May.

In an interview with Vatican Radio that aired on August 16, Romano, who is a gynecologist, said the news of the approval is “dramatic” in that it is furthering the societal acceptance of a drug that acts as an abortifacient. Romano explained that if the pill is taken when ovulation and fertilization have already occurred, the drug then “impedes the implantation of the embryo.”

Romano added that the approval of the drug shows how abortion has been increasingly “banalized” to the point where it is “becoming a method of contraception.

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Related: FDA Approves Dangerous 'Ella' Abortion Drug as Contraception

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