This is, btw, why it's important to challenge that assumption every time this issue comes up. You simply can't concede that kind of stuff.
Additionally, fertilized eggs frequently fail to implant even with women who aren't on the pill. This is one reason why even when you pump women full of conception-inducing hormones and stick three or four IVF embryos in her uterus, she may still fail to get pregnant. Although it's medically impossible to detect when a fertilized egg fails to implant outside that situation, it's entirely possible that some women may experience several failed implantations for each successful one. So really, if you consider failed implantation to be the death of a living baby, any kind of sex without a barrier is probably putting a child at risk, even if you're a married couple trying to conceive.
It's also worth noting that while there's very little reason to believe the birth control pill prevents implantation (since it almost always prevents ovulation, it's rare that you'd have a fertilized egg to fail to implant, and I don't even think it thins the uterine lining that much beyond the normal range of lining thicknesses), I'm sure that a number of other medications (and natural variations) would also lead to many of the same conditions that hardcore prolifers are complaining about the BCP causing. Anything tending to cause a hormonal imbalance. Blood thinners, maybe. Anti-inflammatories? Chemo? Who knows?
Of course, anti-inflammatories and chemo are probably ignored because they're "medical treatment" and not "birth control." But a whole lot of women use birth control for medical purposes as well, and the administration doesn't seem particularly concerned about that (there's no health exception in the proposed regs that I know of, and pharmacists/etc. aren't going to know what the medication is really for).
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Date: 2008-09-24 03:04 am (UTC)From:Additionally, fertilized eggs frequently fail to implant even with women who aren't on the pill. This is one reason why even when you pump women full of conception-inducing hormones and stick three or four IVF embryos in her uterus, she may still fail to get pregnant. Although it's medically impossible to detect when a fertilized egg fails to implant outside that situation, it's entirely possible that some women may experience several failed implantations for each successful one. So really, if you consider failed implantation to be the death of a living baby, any kind of sex without a barrier is probably putting a child at risk, even if you're a married couple trying to conceive.
It's also worth noting that while there's very little reason to believe the birth control pill prevents implantation (since it almost always prevents ovulation, it's rare that you'd have a fertilized egg to fail to implant, and I don't even think it thins the uterine lining that much beyond the normal range of lining thicknesses), I'm sure that a number of other medications (and natural variations) would also lead to many of the same conditions that hardcore prolifers are complaining about the BCP causing. Anything tending to cause a hormonal imbalance. Blood thinners, maybe. Anti-inflammatories? Chemo? Who knows?
Of course, anti-inflammatories and chemo are probably ignored because they're "medical treatment" and not "birth control." But a whole lot of women use birth control for medical purposes as well, and the administration doesn't seem particularly concerned about that (there's no health exception in the proposed regs that I know of, and pharmacists/etc. aren't going to know what the medication is really for).