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we'll talk about it all with our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. great to have you. thank you for being here. explain the difference, plan b is different, very different than a medication abortion. explain how the latter works and how common it is. >> yeah. people often co-mingle these things, but they are different, as you mentioned. plan b is an emergency contraceptive, designed to prevent a pregnancy from happening. someone has to take it within a couple of days of unprotected sex. that's different than medication abortion, which is something that is taken after a pregnancy has already been established. and this is, you know, both of these are medications that sort of came around 20, 25 years ago, late '90s, early 2000, and you can see with medication abortion, back in 2000, it was just coming into the market, there wasn't much use of it, but if you sort of track it over time now, using these types of medications, there is two pills,