If a woman has just had her ovulation prior to the act with her partner, there is a good possibility that she is already pregnant when she takes the morning-after pill.

Hence the only way the pill could act to prevent the pregnancy is by blocking the implantation of the fertilised ovum, which in simple words is called abortion, and which is illegal in Malta.

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