Is taking plan b playing god?

I just took some today and don't feel guilty but my partner does.
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I think he just wants another baby and that's why he feels I should have not done anything and see how it played out. But I'm ovulating so like 90% sure would have had a baby
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  • Nah, it only prevents ovulation and MAY prevent conception and implantation, but to be honest, plan B's main purpose is to delay ovulation, so it is playing God just as much as regular pills and condoms do. That being said, I know many women who got pregnant because they were already ovulating when they took plan B, there was nothing anymore for their ovaries to hold in for a few days more. I hope you don't get pregnant but I think you still have a high chance if your ovulation was very very near or already there.

    • The pill still works if ovulation occured by preventing the conception and even if conception happened, it prevents implantation, so it doesn't work only if implantation already happened.

  • I personally would feel guilty not about avoiding a pregnancy, but about taking drugs that aren't very good to my body. Then again, I wouldn't be having sex if I weren't prepared to deal with a possible pregnancy.

    Accordingly, if I were your boyfriend, I would be more concerned about the effects of the drug on your body. Otherwise, what will he do about feeling guilty? Stop having sex with you?

    • He wants another baby really bad but we already have two kids

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  • You don't even know if you would have gotten pregnant so for all you know you took it for nothing.
    That's like when I was younger, I had to take a drug test and I smoked a lot of pot at the time so i overdosed on niacin to burn it out of my system, which was a pretty shitty experience and in the end I didn't even get drug tested.

    However, better safe than sorry.

    • It has worked for me before

    • It is a just in case medication that needs to be taken within a few days after having unprotected sex.

    • I know what it's for. I was just stating the fact that there is no way to tell if a sperm fertilized an egg so there is nothing to feel guilty about.

  • "Playing God" really doesn't mean anything. Would someone say, "Don't take that antibiotic to fight your infection, because that would be 'Playing God'?" And what's up with your boyfriend? He wants "another" baby? You mean he's fathered one already? Can he help you support one?

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  • How many weeks does this question stay here? I think we need a new one.

    • I agree

  • It's not playing God due to you not even knowing if you would have gotten pregnant. If your partner feels bad then next time he should be more prepared and have protection.

    • But you are intentionally denying the potential for getting pregnant.

  • The morning after pill is not abortion. Maybe you wouldn't get pregnant anyway. Abortion is when there's an actual embryo already. This pill avoids the conception just like the regular pill, but in a bigger dose and if there was conception, it avoids the implantation in the uterus. Either way, you're not playing God.

  • Nope. It's using the knowledge we have in a smart way. The knowledge he gave us, or at least we have ourselves, considering we ate from the tree of knowledge (Christian wise anyway, I don't know what others think)

  • Religion and believe is a very personal thing. I’m not religious but agnostic and think that taking plan B after an accident with anti conception is simply the realistic thing to do even if it remains a choice between two bads.

    • Yep. We had a condom break and didn't know till afterward, so she got plan b the next day to make sure.

    • @Sixgun77 Realistic choice by adult people knowing that dogmatic choices could ruin lives of all adults and the accidental child.

  • I don't know if it's playing god but it's definitely a smart move if you don't want kids

  • No, it's playing biochemist.

  • Its never playing God! God gave man a superior brain to develop enough intelligence to invent and or develop medical science and that includes birth control pills which is actually plan B in a stronger dose. Its about 89% effective if taken within 24 hrs after having sex.

  • Is birth control playing God? What about using condoms?

  • If he wants a baby, then he has to marry you.

    • We are married

    • Then say husband and not partner. It doesn't help to obfuscate the question.

    • marriage is not important to the question you dingus.

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  • Lol no. Its called being safe and smart. You aren't killing a baby

    • i wonder if that means not using birth control is playing god as well? 😂

    • Condoms can break. Birth control can be missed

  • Is killing what had already begun. You're an adult, and probably smart. You know prevention is the humane thing. Not plan b.

    • Plan B isn't an abortion pill. It prevents the sperm from fertilizing the egg.

    • Get educated. Plan B isn’t an abortion. I’m pro life too but plan b just prevents the egg from being fertizeled.

  • No because you don't know if you've created life at that moment.

    If he's that guilty then he should be using condoms or not have sex

  • No. It bars the sperm from fertilizing the egg, so there is no termination of pregnancy, because it happens before conception. So even the most fundamentalist pro-life advocates couldn't make a case against Plan B.

  • Did you not use any birth control?

    • No I never do.

    • I saw in the other comments you have kids. You need to get your tubes tied. You are being irresponsible by not using birth control.

    • Noo way I want more kids in the future. I'm still currently breastfeeding a 18 month old being on bc is not safe for breastfeeding

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  • No, if God wanted you pregnant he could still enforce the pregnancy. I’ve had it happen before🤦🏾‍♀️
    Plan B effectiveness isn’t perfect.

  • No, plan b falls under free will.
    To me its not different from using a condom since nothing really developed yet and your preventing birth either way.

  • Everything we do is "playing God". There's no need for you to feel guilty. But get on some reliable contraception.

  • Is been alive been god since mostly everything we do impact others and living creatures? Like are existance on earth kills millions and millions of creatures every year.
    And we also create millions of stuff every year.

    Hopefully this has made you realise this is a dumb question cause everything we do can be classed as playing god so...

  • And my opinion no just because what if you don’t feel like having abortion at the same time you’re not ready I feel like you’re in a place to take care of a kid so I think that’s why there’s things like plan b Available there’s so many what else but I think y’all should just have a open and honest conversation

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