How “The Pill” works as an Abortifacient
Posted on March 13th, 2010 by admin
This video is an animation showing how the contraceptive pill sometimes causes embryonic abortions.
To read more about the mechanics of “The Pill” visit: http://www.epm.org/articles/bcp3300.html
To learn more about alternatives to taking “The Pill” visit:
1. Natural Family Planning Outreach: http://www.nfpoutreach.org
2. NFP International: http://www.nfpandmore.org
3. Couple to Couple League: http://www.ccli.org
4. Family of the America’s:
http://www.familyplanning.net
5. Pope Paul VI Institute
http://www.popepaulvi.com
If you would like to understand the rational for why the Catholic Church rejects artificial birth control read Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical HUMANAE VITAE: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html
For insights on living life in harmony with the mystery of God, and others, check out Pope John Paul II’s LOVE & RESPONSIBILITY and THEOLOGY OF THE BODY.
A criticism however needs to be brought to these two aforementioned books. They’re built on the premise that humanity is “fallen” and that the trajectory of mankind is to be redeemed back into its “original innocence.” Once having entered this mindset of original innocence harmonious relationships follow. And I agree… it’s definitely a good mindset to have, but it’s not an innocence we lost from the “Fall” of Adam and Eve. I believe there was no “Fall”, and the only innocence we’re returning to is the innocence we felt as children.
Evolutionary biology is showing us that we are born from something more complex than the snap of God’s fingers, and whatever our genesis, it includes severe conflict and competition. And this competition goes deep into our beings. For example, the book Sperm Wars by Robin Baker shows that a good portion of the sperm in a man’s is designed to fight and kill-off sperm from another male in the woman’s cervix.
Reflection on this biological fact unwinds for me so much Christian theology, especially the premise referenced above in JP2’s two books. They’re built on Jesus words in Mathew 19:8… that before “the fall” man and woman (Adam and Eve) were one in marriage, and that it was a result of the fall we need to return to how it was “in the beginning.”
Jesus is the supposed Redeemer who will deliver us to the harmony of how it was “in the beginning,” but we know that the beginning was an awful place. Our physical bodies tell us that millions of years ago reproduction was a gang bang nightmare where after the men nearly fought to the death over who’d have the woman first, even then their sperm had to fight like gladiators. Is this God’s design from 6000 years ago? I don’t think so.
And it is because I can’t reconcile traditional Catholic theology with science and its reasonable methods my conscience and prayer-life are being pushed to find a new understanding.
Today I argue that the Christian mission is not to have us return to some mythical Eden, but to have us evolve into our potential… to go where we have never been before. It’s no longer Jesus as savior delivering us back to Eden’s innocence, but Jesus as older, wiser friend inviting us over for dinner, and in that conversation, we discover for ourselves those areas that need maturity and purity.
It’s a new Christology, and maybe it converts much of Jesus into allegory, but it connects the reality of evolutionary science with our human experience… and by that, I mean that deep quiet desire we all have to want to be more than we are and to live up to our potential. Jesus lived up to his potential, and modeling our lives after his brings out the virtues, which are universal and are not exclusive to any religion. [Side note: it just occurred to me that the virtues are nothing more than God's personality traits. This might be worthy of meditation.]
As a complement to this way of looking at life, I believe one’s own personal physical nature is to be in harmony with the mind and spirit. Medicines are important in this as they help heal us when we’re sick, but the contraceptive pill is not a medicine. It is not fixing something that is broken, it is breaking something that is working just fine (i.e., female fertility).
This is why I’m opposed to it, and I think there’s a better way for couples to manage their reproduction. And, I think people should know the facts and risks regarding how “The Pill” may cause embryonic abortions. This alone should bother a lot of Christians, especially those precious few who still believe that although we are “fallen,” that’s not an excuse to be passive, but that we still have an obligation to try to live up to our potential.
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March 13th, 2010 at 5:13 am
A Planned …
A Planned Parenthood speaker came to our Sex and Gender Roles class, and she told the class all of this information that is on the video. She still works for Planned Parenthood.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:13 am
from conception, …
from conception, the joined egg and sperm are already a human being..to say it is an embryo is to say it is a human being in its earliest stage…still a human being. this shows that pills cause some abortions..this is the reality…natural family planning is the safest way. abstinence=risk elimination.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:13 am
Yes your right, she …
Yes your right, she should give birth to the baby and beat it every day for looking like her rapist. Abortion bad, child abuse good!
March 13th, 2010 at 5:13 am
Again care to give …
Again care to give me the line in the bible where it says birth control is wrong?
March 13th, 2010 at 5:13 am
I hope no young …
I hope no young people take this seriously! Please, do your own research. This information is NOT scientifically proven.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:13 am
hi there …
hi there xxxGlittRainxxx
It’s the normal birth contol pills that are referred to in this film.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:13 am
Hi Dyla
Quote from …
Hi Dyla
Quote from Germaine Greer: “the cynical deception of women by selling abortifacients as if they were contraceptives is incompatible with the respect due to women.”
Whatever age-specific terms we like to us(…embryo…foetus…baby…teenager…middle-aged…elderly… ) scientifically a human life begins at conception. If we choose the so-called contraceptive pill we have a right to know it also aborts.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:13 am
No, we’re learning …
No, we’re learning about what our Church teaches on sex before we get married. Obviously, this video won’t have the same effect on people of different beliefs. I used it as a way to see visually why the Catholic Church declares it an abortifacient. And clearly this happens very very rarely.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:13 am
ok thank you for …
ok thank you for the info
March 13th, 2010 at 5:13 am
But isn’t that the …
But isn’t that the point of the pill?
To stop getting pregnant..Yes.
IT’S NOT ABORTION. It’s not a baby as soon as the sperm enters the egg! It’s an EMBRIO until 13 weeks and a fetus until it’s born. THEN it’s a baby. Every woman has millions of eggs in their ovaries and for most women, every single egg in their ovaries can make a baby. Just because you belive in god doesn’t mean your going to keep (if it was possible) every single one of those babies because “it’s sinfull” to abort.. *1
March 13th, 2010 at 5:14 am
@clasher23 You are …
@clasher23 You are having sex before marriage? That’s SINFUL!!
March 13th, 2010 at 5:14 am
@xXxGlittRainxXx …
@xXxGlittRainxXx Regular birth control pills. They basically want every woman in America to be either barefoot and pregnant, or abstinent.