How does the morning after pill work?
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um...you take it in the morning???
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It stimulates the uterus to start shedding the uterine lining - in other words, it starts your period, thus removing any environment an embryo could grow in, and removing the zygote planted in the uterine wall, if by chance you have become 'pregnant'. Correction: It works to stop the eggs being produced by the ovaries, prevent sperm reaching the egg and alter the uterine lining so that the uterus is inhospitable to an egg.
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It prevents your ovaries from releasing an egg and alters the lining of the womb, so a fertilised egg can't embed itself there.
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