So this is for our Oregon-Oxford debate entitled 'Birth Control vs. Abstinence". And I happen to be on the posititve side which is the pro-birth control.
2007-01-24 23:55:18 · 19 answers · asked by karie28 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
no,your preventing a life from being born.the sperm and egg are produced and discarded even if you abstain from sex.
you could argue that the pill tricks you body into thinking it's pregnant and prevents a fertile egg from being wasted.
The morning after pill is a different story
2007-01-24 23:59:00 · answer #1 · answered by soulburner 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I think some people feel that an IUD (Inter-Uterine Device) is a form of killing...(i think thats ridiculous) but for arguements's sake: An IUD makes and 'inhospitable climate' of the uterus and implantation will not occur...so its possible that eggs are being fertilized every month, but the gamete does not get the chance to snuggle down into the lining of the uterus and start growing...it is flushed along with everything else.....the morning after pill or "Plan B' works the same way only with hormones....Birth Control pills stop a woman from ovulating...no egg is being released, therefore no fertilization is likely to occurr. Some religious people have a problem with the pill because in the UNLIKELY event an egg slips by, gets fertilized....again, the pills make the uterus and 'inhospitable climate' and the gamete wont be able to 'land' safely and begin to grow. If you believe life begins at conception (for the record i do not belive this) but if a person does...conception happens in the Fallopian tube, where egg and sperm first meet...a few days, or even a week before it gets to the uterus. (Usually anyway) Every barrier method of birth control just prevents egg and sperm from meeting in the first place....so I dont see how anyone could call that murder.
I dont believe God has anything to do with reproduction. Children are the eventual by-product of sex. Contraceptiion is a wonderful thing, but i think two people need to make their 'back-up' plan clear to one another if it should fail. Good Luck with the debate
2007-01-25 00:19:45 · answer #2 · answered by motherhendoulas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You asked so I will tell you what my educated opinion is.
Birth control does NOT kill a life.
Most kinds of birth control work by PREVENTING conception. If conception does not take place there is nothing to kill. The egg is not fertilized so life does not begin. Those are very simple facts.
However, in the the case of things like an IUD, conception is not prevented but the fertilized egg does not implant in the uterus. This is also true of things like the "morning after pill", they basically work by preventing the fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. To me this is a very small difference as the fertilized egg is truly the "clump of cells" that we are always hearing about. There is no beating heart, no little arms and legs. I read somewhere that the blastocyst (fertilized egg) is made up of about 150 cells. There are more than 150,000 cells in the brain of a housefly. Now, some might argue that a housefly does not have the potential to ever be a human being and that is true.
However, to me, it is not a human baby either.
My feeling is that in a perfect world every baby would be a beloved, wanted baby. Until that happens we need to have birth control and things like the morning after pill to prevent pregnancy.
Once pregnancy has gotten under way, I would say by 6 - 8 weeks, that is human life and no one has the right to touch it.
That is my opinion.
I hope I have answered your question, which by the way is a very good one.
Blessings
Lady Trinity~
2007-01-25 00:12:37 · answer #3 · answered by Lady Trinity 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The key phrase is "birth control." There is no life because the "birth control" has done just that...prevented a new human life from occurring.
However, sperm and eggs are alive in that they are living organisms, so that fact could be debated. By its very nature, the birth control pill and other chemical forms of birth control kill the sperm and/or egg prior to conception, thus ending the "life" of these organisms. This is not to say they kill human life. So the debate needs to be very specific or you could get lost in semantics.
Condoms, diaphragms and the like, however do not since they only use the barrier system in preventing the sperm and egg to meet.
2007-01-25 00:10:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No of course not. From an egg or sperm's perspective there is no difference between being prevented from joining by effective birth control and being prevented from joining by abstinence. Either way they don't run into each other and eventually expire in time.
If your opponent says that preventing conception is murder, then his argument is that every single egg and sperm must have the opportunity to join together and make a life. The only way to make that possible is to force children to start having sex the moment they become fertile which is around 10-12 years old these days.
This will be the easiest debate you will ever have. Enjoy it!
2007-01-25 00:11:43 · answer #5 · answered by Queen of Cards 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It depends which kind you use. The standard pill does not kill life. It just prevents it. But a intrauterine-device in a way does by making the uterus inhospitable for the fertilized egg or zygote to implant.
2007-01-25 00:42:27 · answer #6 · answered by gourmetkid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a pro-lifer with limits but I don't think it's killing a life. The life hasn't even began to form so I don't think so. HoweverI don't agree with the abortion pill.
And whoever said infants have no feelings and don't mind being in daycare all day that's wrong infants do have feelings and not one of them like being their all daycare 5-7 days a week. I worked at a daycare for over a year with infants and toddlers.
2007-01-25 00:06:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
You don't kill a life by using contraceptives and birth control, you only prevent a life that is not ready to begin. If someone who uses birth control accidently gets pregnant, that is God's Will. With birth control, it is protecting a life, not killing it.
2007-01-25 00:00:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
i am pro birth control too but only till the point when a couple conceive ... after that i am against it ... using contraceptives does not kill life as its just protecting sperms to fuse with the eggs ... they do not have feelings and pain and all that ... so acc to me its ok ... just like taking pills when i catch a cold ... have to kill the virus man ... but abortion is a strict no no.. but that too in some cases i am supp when delivery poses a threat to the mothers life or when it is caused from rape or wen a teenager got pregnant and wont be able to support a kid ... at that point abortion can be done ... no point raising another life in poverty and hardships ... every kid needs best raising in their lives ...
2007-01-25 00:04:04 · answer #9 · answered by Yash 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I think so.
Or when you use emergency contaceptives, the maybe the sperm and egg had already conjoined before you took the pills so that the 'zygote' doen't attach to the womb in order for prevention of pregnency.
So maybe in other word by taking emergency contraceptives, you are killing some form of life form aren't you?
2007-01-25 00:02:21 · answer #10 · answered by LadyZee 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋