CONTRACEPTIVE PILLS
The first combination (estrogen
and progestin) birth control pill was Enovid
10 in 1960. To reduce fatal blood clots and
improve efficacy, the estrogen dose has
been reduced from 10.0 to 0.35 and the
progestin likewise altered and reduced.
Today’s typical pills have three major functions.
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They thicken the mucous plug at the
mouth of the womb, the cervix. This acts as a bit of a barrier to
sperm entrance. Another minor
effect is to alter tubal mobility.
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About 80% of the time these pills
block ovulation. In the remaining
20% there can be break-through
ovulation with the possibility of fertilization.
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They thin and “harden” the endometrial
lining of the womb so that, even
if fertilization occurs, the one-weekold
embryo cannot plant in the
womb and dies. This is a very early
abortion.
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“Emergency Contraception” Pills
We are constantly told that if a
woman has sex on Saturday night and takes
these pills on Sunday morning, she will
then “prevent pregnancy.” In fact, there are
three possibilities.
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She was not fertile that night, did not
conceive and didn’t need the pills.
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She had sex Saturday night, an egg
awaited, sperm deposited in her
body quickly swam out to the end of
her tube and she was fertilized. As
is commonly stated, “She was pregnant
before she got out of bed.” She
took the pills Sunday morning,
much too late to prevent fertilization. One week later, when the new
human embryo tried to implant,
he/she could not and died. Since
there was no implantation, the mother’s
body was not affected by this
and proceeded to menstruate on schedule. Clearly this was an early
abortion.
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Perhaps in a small percent of cases
these pills actually can “prevent”
pregnancy. Here’s how. She has sex
Saturday night and takes the pills
Sunday morning, but her body was
programmed to ovulate on Tuesday.
Since the pills were taken long
enough before this, they possibly
could suppress Tuesday’s ovulation.
Then, even though she still had
viable sperm in her body, she would
not conceive.
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More Semantic Gymnastics
In the early 1960s it was determined
that this newly available birth control
pill would block ovulation and was a“contraceptive.”
It was correctly judged that the
public would accept this. But there was this
anti-implantation effect also, which clearly
was an abortion. They worried that if the
general public found this out, the pill would
be rejected. What to do?
There was a meeting of officials of
the American College of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, the US Food and Drug
Administration, some drug companies and
a prominent doctor, Alan Guttmacher.
They solved this “dilemma” by officially,
but very quietly, ruling that henceforth the
word “conception” would no longer mean
union of sperm and egg. Its new meaning
was to be implantation one week later.
The word “pregnancy” was also a
problem so they changed its definition from
beginning at fertilization to beginning at
implantation. Their stated reason was that
her body was not pregnant until implantation.
Almost nobody was told about this
then, nor do even most doctors know about
it now, but this enabled the drug companies
to call the “pill” and the IUD contraceptives. Today, using their new definitions,
they say that the “emergency contraceptive”
pill prevents conception and prevents
pregnancy.
The obvious problem is that “the
elite” say these things with a straight face,
using their own definitions, while 99% of
everyone else, including most clergy and
doctors, believe “conception” and “pregnancy”
still carry their traditional meanings
of union of sperm and egg.
Pretty clever? You bet!
To counter these misleading
terms, pro-lifers should use “fertilization”
not “conception” and always speak of“human life” not “pregnancy.”
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