To: mkjessup
I'd love to stay focused on the facts, but you'd have to come along for the ride as well.
If human life begins at conception (not before, but at the moment of conception), and a drug (let's call it a contraceptive) works prior to conception, then by the definition every pro-life person I've ever spoken to uses, no human life is taken, as there is no conception. Life does NOT begin with the completion of the sex act. The morning after pill (emergency contraception) is an example of the above. RU-486 is an abortion pill, as it works after conception.
That's not just splitting hairs.
25 posted on
02/28/2007 6:18:32 AM PST by
dmz
To: dmz
We're not talking about contraceptives which prevent fertilization. That is a straw man that has no business being erected here (pun intended).
Life does NOT begin with the completion of the sex act.
It does if that sex act results in the male fertilization of the female egg.
Conception occurs when the male spermatozoa meets and successfully penetrates the female egg. That usually takes place in one of the two fallopian tubes, and by the time the fertilized egg makes it's way into the uterus, it is ready to implant itself into the uterine lining where the pregnancy PROCEEDS. Note, it *proceeds* because life has already begun at the point of conception. Fertilization has already occurred. If a drug is administered to make it impossible for that fertilized egg to implant itself into the uterine lining, that is effectively an early (very early) abortion, as the fertilized egg is capable of cell multiplication and culminating in a human life born into the world.
The 'morning after' pill may be marketed as 'emergency contraception' but if the net result is to prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg, then it is not a contraceptive, it is an abortificant.
26 posted on
02/28/2007 6:25:57 AM PST by
mkjessup
(If Reagan were still with us, he'd say "Chairman Martinez? Tear DOWN those RINOS!")
To: dmz
Well said, dmz. I'm too tired from being up all night with my 10 month old to be as concise as you've been, so thank you.
30 posted on
02/28/2007 6:48:53 AM PST by
coop71
(Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
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