“Rhythm Method” May Kill Off More Embryos than Other Methods of Contraception

NewsWise ^ | 24 May, 2006 | British Medical Journal

[highball]

"Uh, oh" placemarker.

[Izzy Dunne]

if all oral contraceptive users converted to the rhythm method, then they would be effectively causing the deaths of millions of embryos.

Oh, please - why are they reaching for this?

[atomicpossum]

What utter crap.

[Catholic Canadian]

I'm starting to get the idea these days that people are on an attack the Catholic Church kick. Maybe it's just me, I dunno.

[TheDon]

Is it not just as callous to organise your sex life to make it harder for a fertilised egg to survive, using this method, as it is to use the coil or the morning after pill, he asks?

Hmmmmm....me thinks the researcher has an agenda, what say you?

[Gingersnap]

The third assumption is that there is a greater chance that a conception will lead to a viable embryo if it occurs in the centre interval of the fertile period than if it occurs on the tail ends of the fertile period. This assumption is not backed up by empirical evidence, but does have a certain plausibility.

Catholics use Natural Family Planning, not the rhythm method.

[brytlea]

Because he has nothing else?
susie

[Sisku Hanne]

If they "may" be less viable, that is the natural order. No human intervention is altering the life cycle as it was designed to function.

[auboy]

Some folks have no rhythm. Or, so I've been told.

[jstassis]

My rhythm method didn't work too well - kid #3.

Journal of Medical Ethics - wonder what their ethics are on late term abortions?

[trisham]

Professor Luc Bovens
Page contents > Title | Research interests | Publications
Title
Professor of Philosophy

Research interests
Editor of Economics and Philosophy
Interests: Ethical Theory, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Public Policy, Rational Choice, Philosophy of Probability.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/philosophyLogicAndScientificMethod/WhosWho/staffhomepages/bovens.htm

[AnnaZ]

What a stupid theory.

[DogBarkTree]

You cant kill what isn't alive or in this case, FERTILIZED!

[DarkSavant]

Catholics use Natural Family Planning, not the rhythm method.

No kidding, the least he could do is do the five minutes of research required to find that out.

[ConservativeMind]

I understand the premise and it makes sense, but women are always going to lose embryos due to such causes.

You can only do as well as you can do. Embryos will be lost all the time, as well as miscarriages of a further along fetus.

This may help Catholics abstain longer to virtually eliminate the chance of killing a fetus. Why take a chance when you are playing with a life?

However, I do believe birth control is acceptable as a non-Catholic.

[Blueflag]

It won't be truthful until Dan Brown weighs in on it ...


There, I stepped in it also ;-)

The other side of this absurd argument says "don't have sex during a period in the menstrual cycle where a fertilized egg/embryo might not implant in the uterine wall. Any sex that doesn't result in a viable embryo is bad."

THis guy never passed Critical Thinking as a freshman I bet.

Anyway ... off to the races on this one.

[AnnaZ]

Bovens is unsurprisingly not too unlike BovineS.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Then you know what they call couples who use the rhythm method...

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