This is one that has puzzled me. Ok - women who are against abortion but use the mini-pill, or progesterone-only pill. It says right on the leaflet, "Prevents pregnancy by not allowing the egg to implant." Um.... if the egg gets fertilized on the way down the falopian tube, and if you believe that life begins at conception, isn't that life already begun and thus the mini-pill is no different from the morning-after pill?? And thus, abortion?
2007-03-27 07:33:06 · 7 answers · asked by Angie 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
The regular pill prevents ovulation, and therefore is not an abortifacient.
The mini-pill does suppress ovulation, but it also prevents implantation like the leaflet states. Women who use mini pill are often older and may have irregular ovulation anyway. It is not as reliable as the pill, and shouldn't be given to young women. So yes, it is often going to have a fertilized egg that is prevented from being implanted. So yes, the mini-pill may be considered an abortifacient.
The morning after pill suppresses ovulation and also suppresses fertilization by altering mucus and sperm penetration. So it is more likely to prevent an embryo from forming...it can cause an embryo to fail to implant, but this is also not the primary way that this drug works either.
Here is the Badness Spectrum: The Pill (not ever bad), the morning after pill (sometimes bad), the mini pill (more often bad than the morning after pill), the IUD (always works by preventing implantation) and abortion (removes embryo that has already implanted and begun to grow and differentiate).
So there is a spectrum of degree of likelihood to "abort" as you can see. The only people who use the mini pill are older women who can't use the pill for health reasons. If you are older and really don't want more kids, wouldn't it be easier to just get "fixed"??????????? That is my take on it.
2007-03-27 07:46:24 · answer #1 · answered by greengo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
exactly- the birth control pill is what they call an abortafacient. it works in two ways- it prevents fertilization or the egg can be fertilized but no implantation. Absolutely can cause an abortion.
2007-03-27 14:38:05 · answer #2 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All birth control pills do the same thing and not allow the egg to implant in the uterus. So in your interpretation of the instructions all birth control pills do the same as the morning after pill.
2007-03-27 07:40:13 · answer #3 · answered by mommy_2_liam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All methods of hormonal birth control work that way--the stop ovulation, change the consistancy of cervical mucus and alter the lining of the uterus just in case an egg does get fertilized so it can't implant.
2007-03-27 07:39:40 · answer #4 · answered by jilldaniel_wv 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would never use the mini-pill. That pill, and all other non- or low-estrogen birth control pills prevent implantation of a fertilized egg. I do consider that embryo a baby and consider it abortion.
2007-03-27 07:38:52 · answer #5 · answered by not too creative 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Exactly...People will set and argue saying abortion is so wrong but yet they are on birth control preventing themselves from getting pregnant. It is all the same.
I am for abortion and i am for people getting on birth control but i cannot stand how people claim abortion is murder. Life does not begin at conception, i don't care what anyone says.
2007-03-27 08:01:13 · answer #6 · answered by ஐ♥Julian'sMommy♥ஐ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The devil has multiple ways to destroy human life-he has had (at least) 6,000 years to practice, and despises all human beings!
2007-03-27 07:41:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋