In looking through some past posts, I see that a lot of the women on here are taking some form of birth control. I just wanted to inform people that birth control methods such as <b>IUDs, Birth Control Pills, Plan B, Depo-Provera (shots), The Patch (Ortho Evra), The Hormonal Vaginal Contraceptive Ring (NuvaRing), Norplant, The Mini-Pill and other forms of contraception might cause you to have an abortion without you even knowing it.They can also cause serious side effects that can affect your health in a negative way. </b>
<b>How can these birth bontrol methods cause an abortion?
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One way these forms of "contraception" causes early abortions is by interfering with the flexing motions and the cilia movement of the fallopian tubes. These changes slow the transportation of newly conceived child from the fallopian tubes to the womb. Unfortunately, many small babies starve to death in the fallopian tubes because chemicals caused changes that prevented them from reaching the womb in time to be nourished.
Another way these forms of "contraception" causes early abortions: If your tiny baby survives the ride down the fallopian tube to your womb, the Pill will almost always cause the endometrium (the lining of your uterus) to reject your child. Chemical reactions often cause the lining of your womb to become thin, shriveled and unable to support implantation of your newly conceived child.
This means that in almost every case, your new child will not be able to attach to the wall of your womb where he or she would normally live, grow and receive nourishment for 9 months. This means your tiny baby will starve to death and his or her remains will be passed along in your next bleeding cycle. (The "Study of Abortion Deaths Commission" estimates that this happens in women in America who use the Pill approximately 1 to 4 million times each year.)
The chemicals that cause these early abortions are called <b>abortifacients</b>, which is the medical term for any chemical agent that causes an abortion.
<b>Depo-Provera, Norplant and IUDs:</b>
Depo-Provera and Norplant both use chemicals that work in very similar ways on a woman's body and womb. Depo-Provera and Norplant are also considered chemical abortifacients.
IUDs or Intra-Uterine Devices, are small plastic devices that are inserted into the womb. Some IUDs contain copper or a time released hormone. It is believed that the IUD causes a low grade inflammation in the lining of the womb. As a result, the lining of the womb is imperfect and the fertilized egg will not implant. (Source: This paragraph on IUDs is quoted directly from the Calgary Regional Health Authority's web site.)
Because of the chemical effect an IUD has on a woman's womb, tiny babies are aborted. Therefore, IUDs are also considered abortifacients.
<b>More facts about The Birth Control Pill, IUDs, Depo-Provera, The Mini Pill, Depo-Provera, Ortho Evra (Patch) NuvaRing, Plan B and other "contraceptives:</b>
Again, if you're reading about <b>CHEMICAL ABORTIONS</b> for the first time, this may surprise, or even shock you. Most Americans are not aware that the Pill and other chemical "contraceptives" cause millions of "non-surgical" abortions each year in the early weeks of pregnancy. If you are using the Pill, Depo-Provera, Norplant, The Patch, Plan B, NuvaRing the mini-pill or other types of "contraceptives" you need to know the truth about how these products work.
Most women take these "contraceptives" because they don't want to have a baby. But how many women know they can have <b>BREAKTHROUGH OVULATION'S</b> and become pregnant while using these "contraceptives?" Very few! And how many of these women know that if they become pregnant after a BREAKTHROUGH OVULATION, these "contraceptives" will almost always kill any son or daughter they've conceived?
Most people don't know the real facts about how "contraceptives" work. And because of this lack of knowledge, most women are not aware that they may be having BREAKTHROUGH OVULATIONS, and conceiving children that are killed very early in the pregnancy. Women using these "contraceptives" almost never perceive that they have become pregnant, or that chemicals have killed their tiny baby.
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What is Breakthrough Ovulation?</b>
While using the Pill and other chemical "birth control" products, many women's ovaries continue to release eggs. This is called "Breakthrough Ovulation" and it occurs in millions of women each year. Once an egg has been released via ovulation, a woman can become pregnant.
<b>You can still conceive a child . . .</b>
If you're using "birth control" products and you have a breakthrough ovulation that releases an egg, sperm can then reach and fertilize your egg. At that moment -- you would be pregnant! Fertilization means conception has taken place and you now have a brand new son or daughter who is as complete genetically as he or she will ever be throughout life.
<b>When Does Human Life Begin?</b>
Internationally known geneticists and biologists have testified that human life begins at conception. In 1981 (April 23-24) a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee held hearings on the question: When does human life begin? The following doctors testified:
Dr. Hymie Gordon, Chairman of the Department of Genetics at the Mayo Clinic, said: "By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception."
Dr. McCarthy de Mere, a medical doctor and law professor at the University of Tennessee, testified: "The exact moment of the beginning of personhood and of the human body is at the moment of conception."
Dr. Jerome Lejeune, The Father of Modern Genetics, testified that, "Each of us has a very precise starting moment which is the time at which the whole necessary and sufficient genetic information is gathered inside one cell, the fertilized egg, and this is the moment of fertilization. There is not the slightest doubt about that and we know that this information is written on a kind of ribbon we call the DNA."
The late Dr. Lejeune of Paris, France, discovered the genetic cause of Down Syndrome. He received the Kennedy Prize for this discovery, as well as the Memorial Allen Award Medal, the world's highest award for work in the field of Genetics.
Professor Micheline Matthews-Roth, Harvard University Medical School, said: "It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception"
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Breakthrough ovulation proved long ago . . .</b>
Birth control advocates and manufacturers of the Pill have known these facts for years. Have they done a very good job of informing women about how the Pill really works?
When chemists devised the Pill that debuted in 1960, they gave it a huge dose of a chemical that caused most women's ovaries to stop secreting eggs (i.e., to stop ovulation). The theory was "no egg, no pregnancy."
However, some women continued to release eggs and get pregnant while on the original Pill. (Studies have shown that an even higher percentage of women release eggs while using today's newer, re-formulated Pills. More about today's Pills in a moment.)
In her award winning study of women taking the earlier high dose Pills, Dutch gynecologist Dr. Nine Van der Vange showed "proof of ovulation based on ultrasound exams and hormonal indicators occurred in about 4.7% of the cycles studied." (Source: Sterns, Dr. David, "How the Pill and the IUD Work: Gambling with Life, " American Life League, PO Box 1350, Stafford, VA 22555)
And the "Textbook of Contraceptive Practice" states that, "Among women who have been followed over a considerable number of cycles, breakthrough ovulations occur in 2 to 10 percent of cycles." (Source: Dr. J. Peel & Dr. Malcolm Potts, Textbook of Contraceptive Practice, 1969, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press)
Please note that these references are to the lower breakthrough ovulation rates of the Pills of the 1960's. The new Pills of the 1990's work differently and have much higher breakthrough ovulation rates. This will be explained as you read on.
<b>Why the big secret?</b>
Why aren't most women aware that the Pill causes early abortions? Let's look at the large pharmaceutical companies who advertise, market and sell the Pill. They make huge profits from the Pill -- and they'll continue to make mega-profits -- if women are convinced they're not getting pregnant and they keep buying and taking the Pill everyday. But are they being honest with you? Have they clearly explained that their products cause millions of early chemical abortions each year?
<b>The "New" Pills: Much Higher Rates of Breakthrough Ovulation . . .</b>
The original Pill of the 1960's had to be modified due to harmful side effects that women were experiencing because of the powerful chemicals. All versions of today's "Combination Pill" have a reduced hormonal content. When compared to the Pills of the 1960's and 1970's, this reduces the chance of harmful side effects for women, but it also increases their chances of ovulating and conceiving a son or daughter.
Dr. Ronald Chez, a scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), publicly stated that the new Pills of today, with their lower estrogen dose, allow ovulation up to 50% of the time! (Source: Sterns, David, M.D., Sterns, Gina, R.N., B.S.N., Yaksich, Pamela, "Gambling with Life, How the I.U.D. and 'The Pill' Work" (www.top.net/vitalsigns).
With these newer Pills, simply missing one tablet, or failing to take the Pill at the same time each day increases the chances of breakthrough ovulation. Reactions with other drugs increases the chances of breakthrough ovulation, especially with caffeine and nicotine, or some prescription medicine (Source: "Abortifacient Contraception: The Pharmaceutical Holocaust" by Dr. Rudolf Ehmann, Human Life Intl., 1993, p.15).
Makers of the new "mini-pill" claim it does not have the side effects of the combination pill. However, they don't tell you that scientific research shows the mini-pill does not stop ovulation at all in 67-81% of the women who use it, so the probability of conception is much higher. (Source: Tonti-Fillippini, Nicholas, Linacre Quarterly, 1995)
<b>Breakthrough Ovulation Estimates for other "Birth Control" Methods:</b>
· <b>Norplant has breakthrough ovulation 50-65% of the time.
· Depo-Provera has breakthrough ovulation 40-60% of the time.
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· The IUD has breakthrough ovulation 100% of the time.</b>
· With over 17 million American women using the Pill and other chemical abortifacients, it is estimated that breakthrough ovulation and pregnancy occurs so often . . . that between <b>7 to 12 million newly conceived children are killed by chemical abortions in the womb each year.</b> And most of these women never even knew they were pregnant.
(Sources for the four points listed under Breakthrough Ovulation Estimates above are as follows: 1) Hilgers, Dr. Thomas, "Norplant" Linacre Quarterly, 1993, p.64-69. 2) "Infant Homicides Through Contraceptives, " 1994 by the Study of Abortion Deaths Ad Hoc Commission - Bardstown, KY. Ph: 502-348-3963. 3) ibid. 4) ibid.)
<b>Side effects of artificial hormonal chemical contraceptives:</b>
·Bacterial infections (because the hormonal chemical "Contraceptives" weakens the immune system.)
·More susceptible to the AIDS virus (HIV) because the hormonal chemical "Contraceptive" weakens the immune system
·Pelvic inflammatory disease-an infection of the fallopian tubes that can cause sickness or sterility
·Infertility-unable to ever bear children
·Cervical cancer
·ectopic pregnancy
·Shrinking of the womb (endometrial atrophy)
·Mood swings and depression
·Breast cancer
·Blood clots
·Birth defects in children conceived while women are on hormonal chemical "Contraceptives"
·Tender breasts
·Stroke
·Weight gain
Dr Walter Larimore Associate Clinical Professor shows an increased risk of ectopic pregnancies in pill takers and those who use other hormonal chemical "contraceptives" who get pregnant. The percentages range from 70% to a whopping 1390% higher chance of ectopic pregnancy over non-Pill takers who get pregnant.
<b>Betrayed!</b>
If you are taking these products to avoid pregnancy (and abortion), now you know that the makers and promoters of "birth control" products have betrayed you and your children. It has been proven many times that these products do not completely stop ovulation and conception. In fact, you could be at risk of ending the life of a newly conceived son or daughter every month by birth control's chemical abortions.]
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More Proof . . .</b>
The Food and Drug Administration stated in 1978 that:
Combination oral contraceptives . . . [make] alterations in the genital tract including changes in the . . . endometrium (which reduce the likelihood of implantation) . . . but progestogen only contraceptives [re: mini-pills] are known to alter the cervical mucus, exert a progestational effect on the endometrium, interfering with implantation.
(Emphasis added)
<b>From Birth Control Advocates</b>
Lawyers from organizations that promote abortion have admitted in print and in legal briefs that these products cause abortions. A Tulane Law School Professor wrote:
...nearly all birth control devices, operate between the time of conception and implantation... (Emphasis added)
Attorney Frank Sussman argued in the U.S. Supreme Court:
...IUDs [and] low dose birth control pills...act as abortifacients.
Medical Publications confirm the facts . . .
"The Physicians' Desk Reference"quoted a Searle brochure (Searle is a major pharmaceutical manufacturer of the Pill) which states that the mini-pill: makes the womb (uterus) "less receptive to any fertilized egg that reaches it."(Emphasis added)
"Nursing '85 Drug Handbook" states:
Progestogen...also caused endometrial changes that prevent implantation of the fertilized ovum. (Emphasis added)
"The Pill - How Does It Work?"By Albert D. Lorincz, M.D.: Cites a study of 1, 200 women given a daily amount of progestogen equivalent to many birth control pills. 60% of them ovulated.
"Birth Control: Why Are They Lying to Women?" By J.C. Espinoza, M.D. (page 27) cites research, which showed a 30% ovulation rate in women taking a combined Pill preparation.
<b>Pro-abortion supporters even admit to the abortifacient effects of these contraceptives:</b>
The most ardent pro-abortion supporters openly admit the abortifacient nature of the BCP and the IUD. In his arguments before the Supreme Court in 1989, in the case of Webster versus Reproductive Health Services, Mr. Frank Susman, arguing for the pro-abortion side, spoke to Justice Anthony Scalia: "If I may suggest the reasons in response to your question, Justice Scalia. The most common forms of what we generally in common parlance call contraception today, IUD's, and low-dose birth control pills, which are the safest type of birth control pills available, act as abortifacients. They are correctly labeled as both.
<b>The Big Lie:</b>
Propaganda from many pharmaceutical companies promotes a new definition of CONCEPTION. Their new definition is absolutely untruthful and totally unscientific. They created this new definition of when a child is conceived to help them sell their products with the label "contraceptives." Their new definition says that conception occurs only when your baby successfully attaches to the lining of your uterus. THAT'S JUST NOT TRUE!
<b>The real medical truth:</b>
It's very important to understand that when a sperm penetrates one of your eggs, you have conceived a child. Again, this is called fertilization or conception and from that point on, you have a brand new, genetically complete son or daughter.
Every conception is a very unique moment. For example, at your own conception, 46 chromosomes with 30, 000 genes combined to determine all your physical characteristics; sex, facial features, body type, color of hair, eyes and skin. Even more amazing, intelligence and personality -- the way you think and feel -- were already in place within your genetic code. At the moment of conception, you were essentially and uniquely "you." This is the same for every human being at the moment of conception.
Remember, the pharmaceutical industry has a multi-billion dollar business selling these abortifacients. Unfortunately, many of the people who prescribe these products are not aware of their homicidal properties. They may have a sincere desire to help women, but their lack of knowledge makes them uninformed accomplices to these early abortions.
As recent as 25 years ago, most doctors took the Hippocratic Oath. They pledged never to perform an abortion. Tragically, many working in the medical profession today betray your trust by renouncing this ethic. Many know the truth but do not inform you that "birth control" devices are abortifacients which cause abortions.
Did you know abortion was defined in a Public Health Service document published by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare as follows:
"All the measures which impair the viability of the zygote anytime between the instant of fertilization and the completion of labor constitute, in the strict sense, procedures for inducing abortion" (source: Public Health Service Leaflet no. 1066, US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963, 27). This includes chemical abortions like those caused by the Pill, Depo-Provera Norplant ect...
<b>Now That You Know The Truth . . .</b>
If you have used these products, this is very sobering news. Pharmaceutical companies and medical providers have made many parents unwitting accomplices to their own children's death by birth control abortion.
The Pill and its "cousins" kill children earlier in their life than surgical abortion. In America, chemical abortions are estimated to kill more than 7 million babies each year -- while surgical abortions kill about 1.5 million babies each year.
Some people may try to convince you that the pill and other forms of artificial contraception mentioned above are totally without risk. Don't believe it!
Don't depend on the pill and other forms of artificial contraception. It could be harmful to you. It could also kill your baby-without you knowing it.
If you're single, abstinence is always your best choice. It isn't always easy, but it always works. By abstaining from sex, you eliminate the possibility of pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.
If you are married, be faithful to your spouse, trusting in the Lord and His will.
Be good to your self. Don't take IUDs, Birth Control Pills, Plan B, Depo-Provera (shots), The Patch (Ortho Evra), The Hormonal Vaginal Contraceptive Ring (NuvaRing), The Mini-Pill, Norplant and other forms of artificial contraception as they may kill your unborn son or daughter without you even knowing it. The side effects from these "contraceptives" are also a great risk.
I firmly believe that all forms of artificial contraception are wrong (including condoms, diaphragms, ect) as they interfere with Gods plan for each of us. We are all made in the image and likeness of God and we all deserve our chance at the life God blesses us with. Give life a chance and remember that Almighty God loves you more than you can imagine.
<b>Also, it is important to note that all these different forms of "contraceptives" can stay in your system long after you wisely choose to stop using them. Therefore it is extremely important to find out how long each of these various types of poisons stay in your body before trying to have a baby. These "contraceptives" have the same abortifacient effect after stopping them as they do while using them.
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<b>Thoughts on IVF and other reproductive technologies:</b>
Have you ever considered adoption instead? There are so many children just waiting to be adopted into loving families and I think it would be a great choice. With adoption you are selflessly opening your heart and home to a child in need, it is truly an act of love. As a male with CF I know the pain of not being able to have a child of my own, but I am comforted by the notion that I can selflessly and loving give a child in need a home where he/she will be loved their whole life without violating Gods law. I am thankful that there are adoption agencies like <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.adoptionnetwork.com/adoption.shtml">http://www.adoptionnetwork.com/adoption.shtml</a> that are there to help. If your husband can have children I would strongly recommend you be open to Gods will and conceive naturally.
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IVF and other artificial reproductive techniques are gravely immoral because:</b>
IVF and other artificial reproductive technologies like it carry with them many moral and ethical dilemmas. For example, they dissociate the sexual act from the procreative act. The act, which brings the child into existence, is no longer an act by which two persons give themselves to one another, but one that entrusts the life and identity of the embryo into the power of doctors and biologists and establishes the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of the human person. Such a relationship of domination is in itself contrary to the dignity and equality that must be common to parents and children. Under the moral aspect procreation is deprived of its proper perfection when it is not willed as the fruit of the conjugal act, that is to say, of the specific act of the spouses' union.
The problem with IVF (and other procedures like it) lies with the decision made by the parents concerning how to pursue the satisfaction of their own desire for a child. In other words, babies, even when very much desired, should not be brought into the world by making use of disordered means such as adultery, pre-marital sex, IVF, or cloning. They should be brought into the world only within that intimate love-giving moment of the marital embrace.
One only need to look at the procedure itself to see that IVF and other artificial means of having a baby are <b>gravely immoral</b>, where the woman upsets her delicate hormonal cycles and subjects herself to repetitive injections with powerful drugs to make her body produce unnaturally large numbers of eggs, and where the man may be expected to go into a back room with salacious magazines and videos to "provide a sample"? Can we really say that IVF and other artificial means of becoming pregnant embodies spousal love in an authentic and exclusive way when a lab technician ends up being the causal agent of the pregnancy, instead of the spouses themselves through a sacred act proper to their married love? By any stretch, can we honestly believe that IVF is faithful to God's design for marriage?
Remember, the deeper truth is that we never have a right to a baby. A child is not our property or our possession. Rather, a child is a gift, one we hope God will send us, one we stand ready and eager to receive, but certainly not an entitlement or a right for us. When we marry, we properly have a right to those beautiful, life-giving acts we call marital acts, which open us up to the mysterious divine spark at the heart of human love. Those remarkable marital acts are the only human acts appropriately ordered to engendering the incredible gift of new human life. Procedures which add a "third party" into the act of conception, or which substitute a laboratory procedure for intercourse, are gravely immoral.
As for the idea of "preimplantation genetic diagnosis" (PGD), this idea is so intrinsically evil that I can't even begin to describe it, to destroy life because it's not the sex you want or because a disability may be present is morally and ethically bankrupt, it is forgotten that sick and disabled people are not some separate category of humanity; in fact, sickness and disability are part of the human condition and affect every individual, even when there is no direct experience of it. Such discrimination is immoral and must therefore be considered legally unacceptable, just as there is a duty to eliminate cultural, economic and social barriers which undermine the full recognition and protection of disabled or ill people.
These teachings on immoral technologies like IVF/PGD and other artificial reproductive technologies are truth and one would be wise to follow them.
If you are able to conceive naturally with your husband then do so, for this is Gods way, if not, please consider opening your heart and home to a child through adoption. You will be blessed and comforted in the knowledge that you selflessly gave a child a home and did not violate any of Gods natural laws.
P.S. If you are a Catholic-Christian then you should know the church teaches that procedures such as PGD/IVF and all artificial reproductive technologies are gravely immoral (mortal sin). Even if you are not Catholic-Christian the words above are still truth.
<b>How can these birth bontrol methods cause an abortion?
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One way these forms of "contraception" causes early abortions is by interfering with the flexing motions and the cilia movement of the fallopian tubes. These changes slow the transportation of newly conceived child from the fallopian tubes to the womb. Unfortunately, many small babies starve to death in the fallopian tubes because chemicals caused changes that prevented them from reaching the womb in time to be nourished.
Another way these forms of "contraception" causes early abortions: If your tiny baby survives the ride down the fallopian tube to your womb, the Pill will almost always cause the endometrium (the lining of your uterus) to reject your child. Chemical reactions often cause the lining of your womb to become thin, shriveled and unable to support implantation of your newly conceived child.
This means that in almost every case, your new child will not be able to attach to the wall of your womb where he or she would normally live, grow and receive nourishment for 9 months. This means your tiny baby will starve to death and his or her remains will be passed along in your next bleeding cycle. (The "Study of Abortion Deaths Commission" estimates that this happens in women in America who use the Pill approximately 1 to 4 million times each year.)
The chemicals that cause these early abortions are called <b>abortifacients</b>, which is the medical term for any chemical agent that causes an abortion.
<b>Depo-Provera, Norplant and IUDs:</b>
Depo-Provera and Norplant both use chemicals that work in very similar ways on a woman's body and womb. Depo-Provera and Norplant are also considered chemical abortifacients.
IUDs or Intra-Uterine Devices, are small plastic devices that are inserted into the womb. Some IUDs contain copper or a time released hormone. It is believed that the IUD causes a low grade inflammation in the lining of the womb. As a result, the lining of the womb is imperfect and the fertilized egg will not implant. (Source: This paragraph on IUDs is quoted directly from the Calgary Regional Health Authority's web site.)
Because of the chemical effect an IUD has on a woman's womb, tiny babies are aborted. Therefore, IUDs are also considered abortifacients.
<b>More facts about The Birth Control Pill, IUDs, Depo-Provera, The Mini Pill, Depo-Provera, Ortho Evra (Patch) NuvaRing, Plan B and other "contraceptives:</b>
Again, if you're reading about <b>CHEMICAL ABORTIONS</b> for the first time, this may surprise, or even shock you. Most Americans are not aware that the Pill and other chemical "contraceptives" cause millions of "non-surgical" abortions each year in the early weeks of pregnancy. If you are using the Pill, Depo-Provera, Norplant, The Patch, Plan B, NuvaRing the mini-pill or other types of "contraceptives" you need to know the truth about how these products work.
Most women take these "contraceptives" because they don't want to have a baby. But how many women know they can have <b>BREAKTHROUGH OVULATION'S</b> and become pregnant while using these "contraceptives?" Very few! And how many of these women know that if they become pregnant after a BREAKTHROUGH OVULATION, these "contraceptives" will almost always kill any son or daughter they've conceived?
Most people don't know the real facts about how "contraceptives" work. And because of this lack of knowledge, most women are not aware that they may be having BREAKTHROUGH OVULATIONS, and conceiving children that are killed very early in the pregnancy. Women using these "contraceptives" almost never perceive that they have become pregnant, or that chemicals have killed their tiny baby.
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What is Breakthrough Ovulation?</b>
While using the Pill and other chemical "birth control" products, many women's ovaries continue to release eggs. This is called "Breakthrough Ovulation" and it occurs in millions of women each year. Once an egg has been released via ovulation, a woman can become pregnant.
<b>You can still conceive a child . . .</b>
If you're using "birth control" products and you have a breakthrough ovulation that releases an egg, sperm can then reach and fertilize your egg. At that moment -- you would be pregnant! Fertilization means conception has taken place and you now have a brand new son or daughter who is as complete genetically as he or she will ever be throughout life.
<b>When Does Human Life Begin?</b>
Internationally known geneticists and biologists have testified that human life begins at conception. In 1981 (April 23-24) a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee held hearings on the question: When does human life begin? The following doctors testified:
Dr. Hymie Gordon, Chairman of the Department of Genetics at the Mayo Clinic, said: "By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception."
Dr. McCarthy de Mere, a medical doctor and law professor at the University of Tennessee, testified: "The exact moment of the beginning of personhood and of the human body is at the moment of conception."
Dr. Jerome Lejeune, The Father of Modern Genetics, testified that, "Each of us has a very precise starting moment which is the time at which the whole necessary and sufficient genetic information is gathered inside one cell, the fertilized egg, and this is the moment of fertilization. There is not the slightest doubt about that and we know that this information is written on a kind of ribbon we call the DNA."
The late Dr. Lejeune of Paris, France, discovered the genetic cause of Down Syndrome. He received the Kennedy Prize for this discovery, as well as the Memorial Allen Award Medal, the world's highest award for work in the field of Genetics.
Professor Micheline Matthews-Roth, Harvard University Medical School, said: "It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception"
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Breakthrough ovulation proved long ago . . .</b>
Birth control advocates and manufacturers of the Pill have known these facts for years. Have they done a very good job of informing women about how the Pill really works?
When chemists devised the Pill that debuted in 1960, they gave it a huge dose of a chemical that caused most women's ovaries to stop secreting eggs (i.e., to stop ovulation). The theory was "no egg, no pregnancy."
However, some women continued to release eggs and get pregnant while on the original Pill. (Studies have shown that an even higher percentage of women release eggs while using today's newer, re-formulated Pills. More about today's Pills in a moment.)
In her award winning study of women taking the earlier high dose Pills, Dutch gynecologist Dr. Nine Van der Vange showed "proof of ovulation based on ultrasound exams and hormonal indicators occurred in about 4.7% of the cycles studied." (Source: Sterns, Dr. David, "How the Pill and the IUD Work: Gambling with Life, " American Life League, PO Box 1350, Stafford, VA 22555)
And the "Textbook of Contraceptive Practice" states that, "Among women who have been followed over a considerable number of cycles, breakthrough ovulations occur in 2 to 10 percent of cycles." (Source: Dr. J. Peel & Dr. Malcolm Potts, Textbook of Contraceptive Practice, 1969, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press)
Please note that these references are to the lower breakthrough ovulation rates of the Pills of the 1960's. The new Pills of the 1990's work differently and have much higher breakthrough ovulation rates. This will be explained as you read on.
<b>Why the big secret?</b>
Why aren't most women aware that the Pill causes early abortions? Let's look at the large pharmaceutical companies who advertise, market and sell the Pill. They make huge profits from the Pill -- and they'll continue to make mega-profits -- if women are convinced they're not getting pregnant and they keep buying and taking the Pill everyday. But are they being honest with you? Have they clearly explained that their products cause millions of early chemical abortions each year?
<b>The "New" Pills: Much Higher Rates of Breakthrough Ovulation . . .</b>
The original Pill of the 1960's had to be modified due to harmful side effects that women were experiencing because of the powerful chemicals. All versions of today's "Combination Pill" have a reduced hormonal content. When compared to the Pills of the 1960's and 1970's, this reduces the chance of harmful side effects for women, but it also increases their chances of ovulating and conceiving a son or daughter.
Dr. Ronald Chez, a scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), publicly stated that the new Pills of today, with their lower estrogen dose, allow ovulation up to 50% of the time! (Source: Sterns, David, M.D., Sterns, Gina, R.N., B.S.N., Yaksich, Pamela, "Gambling with Life, How the I.U.D. and 'The Pill' Work" (www.top.net/vitalsigns).
With these newer Pills, simply missing one tablet, or failing to take the Pill at the same time each day increases the chances of breakthrough ovulation. Reactions with other drugs increases the chances of breakthrough ovulation, especially with caffeine and nicotine, or some prescription medicine (Source: "Abortifacient Contraception: The Pharmaceutical Holocaust" by Dr. Rudolf Ehmann, Human Life Intl., 1993, p.15).
Makers of the new "mini-pill" claim it does not have the side effects of the combination pill. However, they don't tell you that scientific research shows the mini-pill does not stop ovulation at all in 67-81% of the women who use it, so the probability of conception is much higher. (Source: Tonti-Fillippini, Nicholas, Linacre Quarterly, 1995)
<b>Breakthrough Ovulation Estimates for other "Birth Control" Methods:</b>
· <b>Norplant has breakthrough ovulation 50-65% of the time.
· Depo-Provera has breakthrough ovulation 40-60% of the time.
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· The IUD has breakthrough ovulation 100% of the time.</b>
· With over 17 million American women using the Pill and other chemical abortifacients, it is estimated that breakthrough ovulation and pregnancy occurs so often . . . that between <b>7 to 12 million newly conceived children are killed by chemical abortions in the womb each year.</b> And most of these women never even knew they were pregnant.
(Sources for the four points listed under Breakthrough Ovulation Estimates above are as follows: 1) Hilgers, Dr. Thomas, "Norplant" Linacre Quarterly, 1993, p.64-69. 2) "Infant Homicides Through Contraceptives, " 1994 by the Study of Abortion Deaths Ad Hoc Commission - Bardstown, KY. Ph: 502-348-3963. 3) ibid. 4) ibid.)
<b>Side effects of artificial hormonal chemical contraceptives:</b>
·Bacterial infections (because the hormonal chemical "Contraceptives" weakens the immune system.)
·More susceptible to the AIDS virus (HIV) because the hormonal chemical "Contraceptive" weakens the immune system
·Pelvic inflammatory disease-an infection of the fallopian tubes that can cause sickness or sterility
·Infertility-unable to ever bear children
·Cervical cancer
·ectopic pregnancy
·Shrinking of the womb (endometrial atrophy)
·Mood swings and depression
·Breast cancer
·Blood clots
·Birth defects in children conceived while women are on hormonal chemical "Contraceptives"
·Tender breasts
·Stroke
·Weight gain
Dr Walter Larimore Associate Clinical Professor shows an increased risk of ectopic pregnancies in pill takers and those who use other hormonal chemical "contraceptives" who get pregnant. The percentages range from 70% to a whopping 1390% higher chance of ectopic pregnancy over non-Pill takers who get pregnant.
<b>Betrayed!</b>
If you are taking these products to avoid pregnancy (and abortion), now you know that the makers and promoters of "birth control" products have betrayed you and your children. It has been proven many times that these products do not completely stop ovulation and conception. In fact, you could be at risk of ending the life of a newly conceived son or daughter every month by birth control's chemical abortions.]
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More Proof . . .</b>
The Food and Drug Administration stated in 1978 that:
Combination oral contraceptives . . . [make] alterations in the genital tract including changes in the . . . endometrium (which reduce the likelihood of implantation) . . . but progestogen only contraceptives [re: mini-pills] are known to alter the cervical mucus, exert a progestational effect on the endometrium, interfering with implantation.
(Emphasis added)
<b>From Birth Control Advocates</b>
Lawyers from organizations that promote abortion have admitted in print and in legal briefs that these products cause abortions. A Tulane Law School Professor wrote:
...nearly all birth control devices, operate between the time of conception and implantation... (Emphasis added)
Attorney Frank Sussman argued in the U.S. Supreme Court:
...IUDs [and] low dose birth control pills...act as abortifacients.
Medical Publications confirm the facts . . .
"The Physicians' Desk Reference"quoted a Searle brochure (Searle is a major pharmaceutical manufacturer of the Pill) which states that the mini-pill: makes the womb (uterus) "less receptive to any fertilized egg that reaches it."(Emphasis added)
"Nursing '85 Drug Handbook" states:
Progestogen...also caused endometrial changes that prevent implantation of the fertilized ovum. (Emphasis added)
"The Pill - How Does It Work?"By Albert D. Lorincz, M.D.: Cites a study of 1, 200 women given a daily amount of progestogen equivalent to many birth control pills. 60% of them ovulated.
"Birth Control: Why Are They Lying to Women?" By J.C. Espinoza, M.D. (page 27) cites research, which showed a 30% ovulation rate in women taking a combined Pill preparation.
<b>Pro-abortion supporters even admit to the abortifacient effects of these contraceptives:</b>
The most ardent pro-abortion supporters openly admit the abortifacient nature of the BCP and the IUD. In his arguments before the Supreme Court in 1989, in the case of Webster versus Reproductive Health Services, Mr. Frank Susman, arguing for the pro-abortion side, spoke to Justice Anthony Scalia: "If I may suggest the reasons in response to your question, Justice Scalia. The most common forms of what we generally in common parlance call contraception today, IUD's, and low-dose birth control pills, which are the safest type of birth control pills available, act as abortifacients. They are correctly labeled as both.
<b>The Big Lie:</b>
Propaganda from many pharmaceutical companies promotes a new definition of CONCEPTION. Their new definition is absolutely untruthful and totally unscientific. They created this new definition of when a child is conceived to help them sell their products with the label "contraceptives." Their new definition says that conception occurs only when your baby successfully attaches to the lining of your uterus. THAT'S JUST NOT TRUE!
<b>The real medical truth:</b>
It's very important to understand that when a sperm penetrates one of your eggs, you have conceived a child. Again, this is called fertilization or conception and from that point on, you have a brand new, genetically complete son or daughter.
Every conception is a very unique moment. For example, at your own conception, 46 chromosomes with 30, 000 genes combined to determine all your physical characteristics; sex, facial features, body type, color of hair, eyes and skin. Even more amazing, intelligence and personality -- the way you think and feel -- were already in place within your genetic code. At the moment of conception, you were essentially and uniquely "you." This is the same for every human being at the moment of conception.
Remember, the pharmaceutical industry has a multi-billion dollar business selling these abortifacients. Unfortunately, many of the people who prescribe these products are not aware of their homicidal properties. They may have a sincere desire to help women, but their lack of knowledge makes them uninformed accomplices to these early abortions.
As recent as 25 years ago, most doctors took the Hippocratic Oath. They pledged never to perform an abortion. Tragically, many working in the medical profession today betray your trust by renouncing this ethic. Many know the truth but do not inform you that "birth control" devices are abortifacients which cause abortions.
Did you know abortion was defined in a Public Health Service document published by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare as follows:
"All the measures which impair the viability of the zygote anytime between the instant of fertilization and the completion of labor constitute, in the strict sense, procedures for inducing abortion" (source: Public Health Service Leaflet no. 1066, US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963, 27). This includes chemical abortions like those caused by the Pill, Depo-Provera Norplant ect...
<b>Now That You Know The Truth . . .</b>
If you have used these products, this is very sobering news. Pharmaceutical companies and medical providers have made many parents unwitting accomplices to their own children's death by birth control abortion.
The Pill and its "cousins" kill children earlier in their life than surgical abortion. In America, chemical abortions are estimated to kill more than 7 million babies each year -- while surgical abortions kill about 1.5 million babies each year.
Some people may try to convince you that the pill and other forms of artificial contraception mentioned above are totally without risk. Don't believe it!
Don't depend on the pill and other forms of artificial contraception. It could be harmful to you. It could also kill your baby-without you knowing it.
If you're single, abstinence is always your best choice. It isn't always easy, but it always works. By abstaining from sex, you eliminate the possibility of pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.
If you are married, be faithful to your spouse, trusting in the Lord and His will.
Be good to your self. Don't take IUDs, Birth Control Pills, Plan B, Depo-Provera (shots), The Patch (Ortho Evra), The Hormonal Vaginal Contraceptive Ring (NuvaRing), The Mini-Pill, Norplant and other forms of artificial contraception as they may kill your unborn son or daughter without you even knowing it. The side effects from these "contraceptives" are also a great risk.
I firmly believe that all forms of artificial contraception are wrong (including condoms, diaphragms, ect) as they interfere with Gods plan for each of us. We are all made in the image and likeness of God and we all deserve our chance at the life God blesses us with. Give life a chance and remember that Almighty God loves you more than you can imagine.
<b>Also, it is important to note that all these different forms of "contraceptives" can stay in your system long after you wisely choose to stop using them. Therefore it is extremely important to find out how long each of these various types of poisons stay in your body before trying to have a baby. These "contraceptives" have the same abortifacient effect after stopping them as they do while using them.
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<b>Thoughts on IVF and other reproductive technologies:</b>
Have you ever considered adoption instead? There are so many children just waiting to be adopted into loving families and I think it would be a great choice. With adoption you are selflessly opening your heart and home to a child in need, it is truly an act of love. As a male with CF I know the pain of not being able to have a child of my own, but I am comforted by the notion that I can selflessly and loving give a child in need a home where he/she will be loved their whole life without violating Gods law. I am thankful that there are adoption agencies like <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.adoptionnetwork.com/adoption.shtml">http://www.adoptionnetwork.com/adoption.shtml</a> that are there to help. If your husband can have children I would strongly recommend you be open to Gods will and conceive naturally.
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IVF and other artificial reproductive techniques are gravely immoral because:</b>
IVF and other artificial reproductive technologies like it carry with them many moral and ethical dilemmas. For example, they dissociate the sexual act from the procreative act. The act, which brings the child into existence, is no longer an act by which two persons give themselves to one another, but one that entrusts the life and identity of the embryo into the power of doctors and biologists and establishes the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of the human person. Such a relationship of domination is in itself contrary to the dignity and equality that must be common to parents and children. Under the moral aspect procreation is deprived of its proper perfection when it is not willed as the fruit of the conjugal act, that is to say, of the specific act of the spouses' union.
The problem with IVF (and other procedures like it) lies with the decision made by the parents concerning how to pursue the satisfaction of their own desire for a child. In other words, babies, even when very much desired, should not be brought into the world by making use of disordered means such as adultery, pre-marital sex, IVF, or cloning. They should be brought into the world only within that intimate love-giving moment of the marital embrace.
One only need to look at the procedure itself to see that IVF and other artificial means of having a baby are <b>gravely immoral</b>, where the woman upsets her delicate hormonal cycles and subjects herself to repetitive injections with powerful drugs to make her body produce unnaturally large numbers of eggs, and where the man may be expected to go into a back room with salacious magazines and videos to "provide a sample"? Can we really say that IVF and other artificial means of becoming pregnant embodies spousal love in an authentic and exclusive way when a lab technician ends up being the causal agent of the pregnancy, instead of the spouses themselves through a sacred act proper to their married love? By any stretch, can we honestly believe that IVF is faithful to God's design for marriage?
Remember, the deeper truth is that we never have a right to a baby. A child is not our property or our possession. Rather, a child is a gift, one we hope God will send us, one we stand ready and eager to receive, but certainly not an entitlement or a right for us. When we marry, we properly have a right to those beautiful, life-giving acts we call marital acts, which open us up to the mysterious divine spark at the heart of human love. Those remarkable marital acts are the only human acts appropriately ordered to engendering the incredible gift of new human life. Procedures which add a "third party" into the act of conception, or which substitute a laboratory procedure for intercourse, are gravely immoral.
As for the idea of "preimplantation genetic diagnosis" (PGD), this idea is so intrinsically evil that I can't even begin to describe it, to destroy life because it's not the sex you want or because a disability may be present is morally and ethically bankrupt, it is forgotten that sick and disabled people are not some separate category of humanity; in fact, sickness and disability are part of the human condition and affect every individual, even when there is no direct experience of it. Such discrimination is immoral and must therefore be considered legally unacceptable, just as there is a duty to eliminate cultural, economic and social barriers which undermine the full recognition and protection of disabled or ill people.
These teachings on immoral technologies like IVF/PGD and other artificial reproductive technologies are truth and one would be wise to follow them.
If you are able to conceive naturally with your husband then do so, for this is Gods way, if not, please consider opening your heart and home to a child through adoption. You will be blessed and comforted in the knowledge that you selflessly gave a child a home and did not violate any of Gods natural laws.
P.S. If you are a Catholic-Christian then you should know the church teaches that procedures such as PGD/IVF and all artificial reproductive technologies are gravely immoral (mortal sin). Even if you are not Catholic-Christian the words above are still truth.