Liberal Party Representative Martha Lorena Alvarado sponsored the bill and the Medical College of Honduras issued a statement saying the drug can kill an unborn child between the stages of conception and implantation. According to a CAN report, Alvarado said the so-called emergency contraception pill “is a hormonal bomb that acts directly in the body causing thousands of physical changes in girls, who are the ones taking it the most, 12, 14 and 16 year-old girls take it after a night of partying, making it a pharmaceutical abortion.”

Honduras, like most other South American nations, makes abortion illegal and Alvarado noted Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru and Argentina have also banned the morning after pill because it can sometimes cause abortions. Representative Silvia Ayala of the Democratic Unification Party cited abortion advocates who say the drug can’t cause abortions, but that is only because they have defined the beginning of human life as starting at implantation and not conception.