Is Using An IUD The Same As Abortion?

As I was driving the other day, I was listening to a Sisriux FM channel, and they were covering a hearing from the Louisiana House of reps, where a legislator was arguing that an IUD is akin to murdering a child, and wanted it added to the list of things a woman would be accused of (murder), if she chose an IUD.

His argument was that an IUD works by preventing a fertilized egg from sticking to the uterus wall, therefore it's killing a baby, because a sperm fertilized an egg and the IUD aborts it.

I thought I was in the Twilight Zone. A Democrat legislator was trying to argue that this makes no sense....

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justanothername · 51-55, M

No, an IUD is designed to prevent a woman getting pregnant which would mean that there would be no need for an abortion.
The birth control pill is another “less invasive”” type of IUD. It’s just trickier because you need to remember to take it each day.

The Republican senator is clearly has no understanding of how human reproduction works. He obviously missed the human reproduction section of biology during high school. I’m thinking most Republicans never had any formal education through out their formative years.