How so you ask? Don’t women by taking birth control prevent
unwanted babies and thus possibly abortion? Nope. But don’t ask your doctor that
because you’ll get a different answer. I know. I asked.
Prior to 1965 conception was considered to occur at
fertilization or when the egg is fertilized by a sperm thus creating an embryo,
which has all the necessary DNA of a human being.
In 1965 the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists (per Planned Parenthood’s suggestion) redefined conception as the
implantation of an ovum, or when the embryo attaches itself to the uterine
lining.
Why’d they do that? Because this newfangled pill was coming
out, but people weren’t jumping on the bandwagon because it ended pregnancies. How many times are we going to be fooled by semantics?! The pill works like this:
First it releases a synthetic version of progesterone.
Progesterone naturally occurs in a woman’s cycle only after ovulation (when the
egg is released to be fertilized) to prepare the body for a potential
pregnancy. By releasing this hormone earlier it tricks the body into thinking
it’s pregnant and therefore does not ovulate. No ovulation means no chance to
make a baby.
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However, because the pill originally had extremely high
dosages of progesterone that were causing serious issues in women (like cancer and death) developers
of the pill have cut back on the amount of progesterone thus allowing ovulation
to occur (though we still get many of those nasty side effects). If ovulation
happens, the egg can become fertilized. Ovulation occurs 28 percent of the time
with regular hormonal contraceptives (that means the pill, the patch, IUDs, and
other contraceptives that use synthetic hormones to trick the body). Ovulation
occurs 33-65 percent of the time in progestin-only mini-pill cycles. *
So backup function of the pill is to thicken cervical mucus
and slow tubal motility so the two halves of a whole person can’t meet. But
still, that might not be enough to prevent new life from forming.
The pill has a third function and it’s abortificant in
nature. It thins a woman’s uterine lining, aka the “embryo food”. So, if an egg
and sperm were to meet and create a baby, the pill makes a woman’s body
inhospitable to that life continuing, thus causing an early term chemical
abortion. That means hundreds, thousands, millions of babies have been aborted due
to hormonal contraceptives according to the definition of life that starts at
fertilization.
Don’t believe me; ask your doctor. Ask, that if your
definition of life begins at fertilization (and science has proven that it does), if the pill (the patch, IUDs, etc.)
causes the embryo to be unable to implant (aka die). Their answer should be yes
and that means that hormonal contraceptives can have an abortificant effect.
I asked my doctor at the age of 18 if the pill caused
abortions, and I got ‘no’ for an answer. I didn’t know that her definition of when
life started was later than mine. And it was because of that answer, and my own
unwillingness to investigate into the issue, that I went a year and a half on
birth control while married. That devastates me looking back and wondering
about the possible lives I might have ended because the pill seemed somehow
easier and more effective than the other options out there. I thought I wasn’t
hurting anyone, but I had no idea I was potentially ending life … life that my
husband and I created … my own children. I don’t know if that happened and I
might not ever know until I leave this world, but that’s my burden to bear. I
just hope I can help others realize this truth so they can embrace life when
they are ready and exercise responsible parenthood and make adult decisions
before they are.
If you are pro-life, you don’t use hormonal contraceptives.
That’s that.
Want to learn more about this from an NFP doctor or teacher,
visit www.onemoresoul.com to find one
in your area.
