Inn that people who think birth control causes abortions infuriate me?

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I feel pure rage towards individuals who assume birth control causes early abortions, should one fall pregnant while using birth control. I feel like not even women know how their own bodies and reproductive systems work anymore and its frustrating the hell out of me. An abortion involves blood and a lot of pain. I think women would KNOW if they were continuously experiencing early abortions as a result of birth control. Besides, to abort means to stop something already in progress, not prevent it from happening, and the scientific definition of when exactly pregnancy begins is when a blastocyte has implanted into the uterus, which is 99.9% impossible with ALL forms of hormonal birth control. A fertilised egg is not a living, breathing, growing human being, not yet anyway. Yes, the cell dies if it cannot implant but we kill cells every day. To use birth control would mean to prevent ovulation and a woman's eggs are also technically 'living' cells, so is shutting them off murder too? What about all the eggs released in a woman's life time each menstrual cycle, that don't get fertilised, then get expelled later on? That surely isn't murder is it? Don't get me wrong, I'm very pro life (I'm not religious at all I just respect living creatures and humans) and do not agree with abortion but if one more christian fanatic or uneducated person tells me my pills cause early abortions I might lose my fucking mind and punch somebody. Does anyone else feel this way?

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  • [Old Memory]
    9 years ago

    And do you know what the morning after pill is? It is two doses of a double dose of high dose birth control pills. The birth control pill I use is FDA approved for use as emergency contraception if you take two immediately and two 12 hours later. So do my pills cause abortions now? Cause I'm pretty sure I would know if that had occured.

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  • [Old Memory]
    9 years ago

    I can't believe how many people think a fertilized egg is a human being. Idiots. Didn't any of you take science or biology in school? I didn't even finish high school and I know your bodies better than you do. Sad really. A period is the contents of the uterine lining being shed when pregnancy does not occur and estrogen and progesterone levels drop. It is NOT a miscarriage. Do you hear women on their period going 'ugh, I'm busy having a miscarriage again' ? And no, the IUD does NOT cause abortions or ectopic pregnancies. Ectopic pregnancies can happen to any women, whether she is currently using birth control or not. And just by the way, if you're religious don't even bother commenting on this thread because I only take interest in the opinions of RATIONAL people.

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  • NeuroNeptunian
    9 years ago

    Wrong, the IUD can cause miscarriage and very early miscarriage. Pregnancies on the IUD tend to be ectopic and fail very quickly. Pregnancies that are ectopic that don't fail quickly immediately necessitate an abortion due to the deadly nature of ectopic pregnancies.

    Many of the pregnancies that are not ectopic often miscarry as well. Statistically speaking, pregnancy on an IUD is unlikely, HOWEVER, it is possible. Although IUDs prevent implantation and work to prevent fertilization, they don't completely stop fertilization. Technically, yes, it causes abortions. Plan B prevents fertilization as well.

    Religious folk considers the willful disposal of a fertilized egg to be abortion. So technically, yes, it is abortion, depending on your definition of life.

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  • Sog
    9 years ago

    Religious people have a very hard time reconciling their magical beliefs about life (the existence of souls, the afterlife, etc.) and the actual scientifically explainable mechanics of how life begins and ends.

    To them, the moment of conception is this magical point in time where God himself begins life and bestows a soul onto the corporeal world. So then (in their minds) it logically follows that the destruction of even that single fertilized cell is a sacrilege.

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  • wistfulmaiden
    9 years ago

    Birth control prevents abortions, because people who take birth control (correctly) don't need to have an abortion!
    The drug actually tricks your body into thinking its already pregnant which is preventing pregnancy. No embryo, no abortion.
    I hate people who have no business having kids who don't use some kind of birth control, then the tax payers end up paying for their mistake, more often multiple mistakes.

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  • howaminotmyself
    9 years ago

    Technically, every period is a miscarriage. And a miscarriage is a spontaneous abortion.

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    • CountessDouche
      9 years ago

      ......no.....

      A period is an unfertilized egg.

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      • howaminotmyself
        9 years ago

        A miscarriage is a failed pregnancy. It doesn't matter if the egg is fertilized or not. It is still a fail.

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        • CountessDouche
          9 years ago

          It wouldn't be a pregnancy to begin with if the egg isn't fertilized...I mean, I guess we are just talking about semantics here, but for that reason, I don't get how you could call a period a miscarriage.

          Mis•car·riage
          misˈkarij,ˈmisˌkarij/

          The expulsion of a fetus from the womb before it is able to survive independently, especially spontaneously or as the result of accident.

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          • howaminotmyself
            9 years ago

            Random fact: you are two weeks pregnant at conception. So ovulation occurring is pregnancy, if the egg isn't fertilized, it is expunged from the body. Sometimes the fertilized egg will be expunged too.

            It really is just semantics.

            The fertilized goes through a few stages before it becomes a fetus. I think around 8 weeks. The cluster of cells being expunged before 8 weeks is still a miscarriage but by that definition, a loss at 6 weeks wouldn't be considered a miscarriage as you only passed an embryo.

            So yeah, semantics.

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  • charli.m
    9 years ago

    I have never heard this opinion expressed.

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    • VirgilManly
      9 years ago

      Is this your first time in America?
      The same people who consider birth control pills abortion also are probably likely to want to shoot those embryos if they come across the border illegally.

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      • charli.m
        9 years ago

        I guess Australia has a few more brain cells, then.

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      • wistfulmaiden
        9 years ago

        The Pope just wants legions of Catholics to donate to Rome.

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