According to the American Life League's (ALL) Current Events Blog, ". . . It is time for America to wake up and accept the fact that the pill can kill preborn babies. Women deserve to know the truth and we are happy to see the outstanding amount of support and participation.
"There will be protests in Connecticut, South Dakota, Utah, Nebraska, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Virginia, Washington D.C. and many other areas throughout the country."
June 7 is the anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, and ALL is calling for protests outside of every facility that distributes birth control pills.
Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions?
by Randy Alcorn
4th edition, revised November 1999 (1st edition August 1997)
by Randy Alcorn
4th edition, revised November 1999 (1st edition August 1997)
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This is one case where Randy is very much mistaken, as I myself once was, because poor research was being put out.
ReplyDeleteActually, what I've seen and read most recently is that in cases when there is break-through ovulation, the corpus leuteum in the ovary produces enough hormones to offset the impact of the Pill on the uterus. In other words, the Pill very probably does not cause early abortions. Which is GOOD news.
"The proponents of the “hostile endometrium theory” argue that OCs are abortifacient based upon the third mechanism of action. The medical literature clearly supports the claim that the uterus becomes thinner and less glandular as a result of the OCs, however, the medical literature comes to this conclusion from non-ovulatory pill cycles. It is assumed that this finding in non-ovulatory pill cycles would prevent implantation of the embryo conceived in an ovulatory pill cycle, but this presumption is false. If a woman on OCs ovulates and conceives, everything changes: through the HCG’s affect on the corpus luteum, and the corpus luteum’s release of high levels of estrogen and progesterone, the uterus is able to nourish its new guest very well."
I'd rather see the prolife movement go after the deliberate routine destruction of deliberately concieved embryos in IVF clinics than go tilting at progesterone windmills trying to rescue inadvertently created embryos who most likely are in no danger unless the mother chooses to seek an abortion.