From the Pro-Life forum (re: IUD)

i have no idea but I have the Mirena coil and it has never bothered me.

If the pro-lifer (or anyone for that matter) is Christian, it does go against what's in the bible, but so do any forms of birth control. Then again, many people are pro-life without being religious.

I never understood the people who do follow a religion that is against abortion, birth control, and pre-marital sex but still choose to have the sex. Especially if they go around telling women who are pro-choice to keep their legs closed.

Oh there's a significant nutcase element out there that insists that because one way the BCPs work is by stopping implantation, that they are causing "abortions". This is doubly the case with the morning-after pill, but has also been argued for the regular kind. That's the basis of all the pharmacists who refuse to dispense contraceptive pills and/or morning after pills.

Here is a quote from a post of mine on another thread. It explains why Plan B Emergency Contraception does NOT cause embryos to not implant:



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futureshock wrote:

Ingi wrote: Futureshock, please explain how it prevents an egg from attaching to the uterin lining. BECAUSE I'M FASCINATED TO KNOW! It doesn't prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine lining. Plan B is progesterone. Progesterone helps maintain the uterine lining, (This is why women undergoing fertility treatment are sometimes given progesterone to help maintain the pregnancy}. Progesterone stops ovulation because it suppresses LH production by the pituitary. I can tell you where the mistaken notion started, and that was from looking at women on the pill. If there is no ovulation, there is no cascade of events leading to thickening of the uterine lining so implantation can take place. That's the "hostile environment". However, you can only have an insufficient uterine lining of there is no ovulation. The notion of ovulation occurring while a woman was on the pill, getting fertilized, and not implanting was based on the notion that women on the pill have an insuficient uterine lining. What was not taken onto consideration was the fact that if ovulation occurred while on the pill, the cascade of events leading to a thickening, sufficient for pregnancy uterine lining would also occur. Otherwise, you'd never hear of a woman giving birth after getting pregnant while on the pill. If Plan B stopped fertilized eggs from implanting, it would work a lot longer than 5 days after sex, and it would work a lot better.

But what happens if the woman has already released the egg when she takes the plan b?

This is all very interesting!

Nothing. Some research has shown that the sperm are slowed down a little by the thickening of the cervical mucous, but nothing happens to the egg. If the sperm and egg meet, she gets pregnant.

Here's an interesting article on the MAP:

Emergency contraception

Is it worth all the fuss?

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Emergency contraception has been heralded as the solution to rising abortion rates. Some authors have suggested that almost a million abortions could be prevented in the US annually if every woman used emergency contraception every time she needed it.7 Proponents claim that 43% of the reported fall in abortions in the US (110 000 between 1994 and 2000) was due to use of emergency contraception, and that around 51 000 pregnancies were prevented by its use in 2000-1.4 Similar calculations would lead us to conclude that emergency contraception prevented more than 66 500 abortions in England and Wales in 2004.

Yet, despite the clear increase in the use of emergency contraception, abortion rates have not fallen in the UK. They have risen from 11 per 1000 women aged 15-44 in 1984 (136 388 abortions) to 17.8 per 1000 in 2004 (185 400 abortions). Similarly, increased use of emergency contraception in Sweden has not been associated with a reduction in abortion rates.8 A multitude of social and economic factors influence pregnancy rates, and it is hard to show the effect of a single factor. For example, the fall in the abortion rate in the US could be due to reduced access to abortion clinics - another ideological battleground.

full article: http ://www.bmj.com/cgi/content...X=0&resou rcetype=HWCIT

And here's a Wikipedia article with links to other sources:

"A number of studies in the 1970s and 80s concluded that emergency contraception could cause changes in the endometrium[113] that would prevent implantation of an early-stage embryo in the uterus. This research led many pro-life advocates, who believe that pregnancy begins at fertilization, to oppose ECPs as an abortifacient."
http://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/Morning-after_pill

Breast feeding acts as an abortifacient.

So many embryos and fertilized eggs die before they are either implanted or born that
the women who are on hormonal birth control are causing the LEAST amount of embryonic death, because they are not ovulating.

For every live birth, on average, 9 fertilized eggs and embryos die. So just having procreative sex causes death.

Also:

The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
Issue: Volume 7, Number 4 / Winter 2007
Pages: 703 - 707
URL: Linking Options

Is Plan B an Abortifacient? A Critical Look at the Scientific Evidence

Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco A1

A1 Providence College, Rhode Island

Abstract:

On September 27, 2007, the Catholic bishops of Connecticut announced that they would allow the four Catholic hospitals in their state to comply with the state's emergency contraception law. The statement has generated much controversy and criticism from those who are convinced that Plan B is an abortifacient. This essay summarizes and critically reviews the scientific studies that have attempted to uncover the mechanism of action of levonorgestrel, the active drug in the contraceptive commonly known as Plan B. Mounting and recent evidence suggests that this emergency contraceptive has little or no effect on post-fertilization events.



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I am a pro-lifer and a christian. I had an iud for almost two yrs. I recently found out that it actually is like having an abortion. I went to the gyno to have it taken out and my doc tried to convence me otherwise. I looked it up on the internet before i went to make sure. My doc actually brought a laptop into the room and we looked at websites together. When she seen it she tried to say that was hypotetical and wasn't the way the iud worked. Needless to say i had it removed. Here's how it works...first of all it suppose to keep the egg and sperm from meeting. It makes the cervical mucus thick so sperm die out before reaching the uterus. It acts as a spermicidal. It thins the lining of your uterine wall so that if an egg and sperm meet it does'nt attatch to your uterus. Therefore your body flushes it out. There are people who get pregnant and have successful pregnancies with an iud. Most of the BC pills do the same thing to your uterus so that an egg can't attatch. So I'm going the natural way for BC. Here is a website that is good...www.fertilityfriend.com ...also there are things called cylcle beads. search cycle beads on google to find out more... So if you are a christian and pro-life i would not reccommend iud.....you dont even have to be a christian...pro-life should be enough......

But y'know what? I don't mind that anyone doesn't want to use an IUD, or BC pills, or whatever. They can believe what they like about it, and get pregnant as many times as they want. Just so long as they don't try to stop anyone else from using an IUD, or birth control pills, or condoms, or having an abortion if they need to. That is what choice is all about.

I'm christian, and no form of contraception bothers me. I'd like to see the bible passage that says "thou shalt not use an IUD".

Here is a great site which explains how every major contraceptive method works, and none of them cause abortions.

http://www. fhi.org/en/RH/Pubs/factsheets/mechact.htm< /a>

im not trying to force anyone not to use any type of bc. im just telling you what i found out.

to: "nolongerhere" you are wrong about horomonal bc not causing you to ovulate. with the mirena you still ovulate...unless i did the whole time i had it....but i also had a period the whole time too...

im not out to 'get' anyone im just telling my opinion...

I am pro-life to a certain extent. I cannot say that I am 100% against abortion. The reason being that women who are raped or whose pregnancy puts them or the baby in mortal danger should be allowed to terminate the pregnancy. However, I am against a woman having an abortion because she was in too big of a hurry or just didn't want to use protection. I draw the line at the irresponsible. Those who want to have the fun then not deal with the consequences of their actions. Those who do not have control over what has happened to them or who may die along with the unborn child I believe should have the choice. This is just my opinion.