- Mon, Jan 18, 2010
- Prolife
Are there any birth control pills that don’t have the potential of causing an abortion?
Combination pills contain both estrogen and progestins.
Resources: different types of pill
- Mon, Feb 01, 2010
- Prolife
Why do you think prolife physicians who prescribe oral contraceptives have vested interest in doing so?
In my opinion it would be unwise to not recognize that everyone, including you and me, has vested interests. It’s just part of being human. Do we have vested interests in who we are voting for and why, where we live, what we do, who we hang out with and what we believe? Of course we do.
For instance, someone who believes all birth control is wrong will have vested interests in believing the pill causes abortions. Why? Because that will be another reason they can claim the pill is bad.
And someone who has used or prescribed the pill will naturally have strong vested interests in believing it does not cause abortions. Why? Because if you’re prolife, the last thing you want to believe is that your actions and advice may have resulted in the deaths of children.
- Mon, Feb 08, 2010
- Prolife
What is the best way to approach my pastor with information on the pill?
Present it in a way that is not offensive or accusatory.
- Tue, Feb 16, 2010
- Prolife, Randy's Books
Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions?: A Longer Condensation
“The Pill” is the popular term for more than forty different commercially available oral contraceptives. In medicine, they are commonly referred to as BCPs (birth control pills) or OCs (oral contraceptives). They are also called “Combination Pills,” because they contain a combination of estrogen and progestin.
The Pill is used by about fourteen million American women each year. Across the globe it is used by about sixty million. The question of whether it causes abortions has direct bearing on untold millions of Christians, many of them prolife, who use and recommend it. For those who believe God is the Creator of each person and the giver and taker of human life, this is a question with profound moral implications.
- Tue, Nov 02, 1999
- Culture and Worldview, Prolife
Birth Control Pill: Abortifacient and Contraceptive
...it has become glaringly apparent that now is the time for us, as an organization, to sail into the dangerous and uncharted waters that we have, perhaps intentionally, avoided. These are the “waters” of pro-life principles as they relate to fertility control.
- Tue, Nov 20, 2001
- Culture and Worldview, Prolife
Abortifacient Effect of the Birth Control Pill
This resource is available from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity:
The Pill: Addressing the Scientific and Ethical Questions of the Abortifacient Issue
- Thu, Jan 07, 2010
- Culture and Worldview, Prolife
Does Seasonale birth control pill act as an abortifacient like other pills?
The director of education at the Crisis Pregnancy Center I volunteer at was recently somewhere listening to a Pro-Life contraceptive expert who was telling them about Seasonale, a new birth control pill that supposedly doesn't change the lining of a woman's uterus. I asked my OB's nurse about it and go the impression that it works no differently than the current BC pills, only you have a period 4x a year. I was wondering if you have done any research on this Pill, and if so, what have you found about it? Is it an abortifacient? Or is it safe?
- Thu, Jan 07, 2010
- Prolife
Does the patch cause abortions, and where can I find more information about it?
Like the Pill it also functions to prevent or end a pregnancy in three ways.
- Thu, Jan 07, 2010
- Prolife
Do you have any info on if Tri-Phasil prevents conception or if it just prevents implantation?
Tri-Phasil is, like all of the combination oral contraceptive pills, effective through three mechanisms of action.
- Thu, Feb 18, 2010
- Culture and Worldview, Prolife
“Morning After Pill”
Is there any new material addressing the scientific and ethical questions of the “morning after pill” and the whole abortifacient issue?
Randy Alcorn has a revised ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments as well as his book Why ProLife? published in 2004. He has taken great care to cite all original sources for his readers so that they may use the books not only for reading, but as reference tools. Randy is, as far as I know, the most synthesized writer on the topic. By that I mean that he has done an extraordinary analysis of the available evidence and has put it into a format that is accessible and comprehensible to the average reader.
