Most Christians are against abortion calling the intentional ending of a pregnancy murder. At the same time most Christians see no problem with using birth-control, especially the Pill. Now with the morning after pill widely available, we find ourselves in a very “sticky wicket.” You see, there is a definite contradiction here.
This all comes down to the question “When does life begin?” Christians and doctors alike defined “life’s start” to be conception- the moment the egg and sperm join to form one, unique being. That is, they did until 1965.
“In 1965, American College of Gynecologists, a long-standing supporter of abortion and family planning, issued a medical bulletin that sought to change the accepted definition of “conception” from union of sperm and egg to implantation: "Conception is the implantation of a fertilized ovum [egg]." (from Americans United for Life, the legal arm of the anti-abortion movement)…”
Why is this significant? You see, the Pill and all other hormonal “birth-controls” act by preventing ovulation AND by preventing implantation (Actually, some only prevent implantation.) This means that the doctor’s union ruled that life no longer began at conception, but at implantation and so birth-control is not abortion and not murder. And the Christian response? “Give me my Pill!” They bought it! Hook, Line and Sinker. Oh most Christians don’t know the Pill prevents implantation. They don’t bother to read the papers inserted in EVERY prescription of pills stating this. But the church hasn’t made any effort to warn them.
And now here we are. You can take a Pill every day to make sure you either don’t ovulate or, if you do, that the fertilized egg (baby) doesn’t implant. Or you can go to the pharmacy and get a pill you take the morning after having “unprotected” sex and it will make sure your baby can’t implant. Or you can go to an abortionist and get a pill that will un-implant the baby. Where do we draw the line? When does it become murder? Honest Plea here! Explain how The Pill is NOT murder but RU286 is. THEY DO THE SAME THING! And if the Morning After Pill is OK, then why isn’t an early abortion OK? And if an early abortion is OK, why not a late abortion? Or what is called a “post-natal” abortion (the leaving of a Live Born baby to die just because his mommy doesn’t want him)? Why isn’t infanticide OK?
I am surrounded by Slippery Slops.
And the supposed decline in abortions in the recent years is not due to fewer women killing their babies but to them killing them sooner in the privacy of their own home with the Morning After Pill or RU486.
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