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American Society of Reproductive Medicine Statement Confirms the Pill Causes Abortion
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/dec/08121206.html ^ | December 12, 2008 | Ellen M. Rice

Posted on 12/12/2008 4:23:15 PM PST by cpforlife.org

December 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Amidst an ongoing debate among prolife advocates about whether to classify the Pill as an abortifacient or a prophylactic, pro-abortion advocates have published an authoritative statement declaring that the Pill prevents implantation of embryos, thereby causing an abortion.

In a supplement to its November 2008 issue, top reproductive health journal Fertility and Sterility published the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) statement, “Hormonal contraception: recent advances and controversies.”

In a summary of the development of contraception in the United States the statement called oral contraceptives the “most widely used” reversible method. In the “wide variety” of oral contraceptives that are available, the “mechanisms of action” are the same, said the statement: “inhibition of ovulation, alteration in the cervical mucus, and/or modification of the endometrium, thus preventing implantation.”

Pro-life advocates who oppose abortion, but not contraception, have long considered the Pill as an ethical contraceptive option, as opposed to the IUD, which causes abortions by preventing implantation. However, the statement by the ASRM clearly indicates that the pill is medically classified as a drug that acts by “preventing implantation,” thereby causing the death of a fertilized embryo – a unique and living human being.

A large body of literature supports this statement, including articles from Fertility and Sterility. The most significant of these is a 1996 study by a group of OB/GYNs from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, that concluded that “impaired uterine receptivity” is “one mechanism by which OCs exert their contraceptive actions


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To: cpforlife.org

From a political angle it’s true that it’s a loosing case. The vast majority of Americans use the pill and would destroy any party that would propose stopping it—even if it was universally understood that it can cause abortion.

And that’s the bleak truth.


Another sad truth:
Any society that refuses to reproduce will die.
The effects of the pill on society are cumulative over time.
God forgives but nature will not.


21 posted on 12/12/2008 6:53:11 PM PST by 99Floyd (Silence = Acceptance)
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To: RKV

The ridiculousness comes in because there was nothing in my post that your post had any resemblance to. What you posted was knee jerk nonsense.


22 posted on 12/12/2008 6:55:33 PM PST by big'ol_freeper (Gen. George S. Patton to Michael Moore... American Carol: "I really like slapping you.")
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To: cpforlife.org

Oh, more than a few, I’m sure. Most doctors will talk around the question with sweeping generalities. Some simply lie and state things like oral contraceptives are 100% effective and under no circumstances are abortive. It’s rather difficult to find pro-life OB/GYns, it would seem, and that’s sad.


23 posted on 12/12/2008 8:39:21 PM PST by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasnÂ’t caught on in the United States.)
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To: RKV

That’s what the real separation of church and state is about.


24 posted on 12/12/2008 10:20:43 PM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: cpforlife.org
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25 posted on 12/13/2008 11:04:33 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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26 posted on 12/13/2008 11:15:32 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: RKV

At least, everyone who purchases such contraception should also receive the information that it does indeed induce abortion. In letters the size of which is readable. The doc who prescribes it should also tell the patient.


27 posted on 12/13/2008 11:29:21 AM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: Bigh4u2

Where do you pour the cold glass of water, for best results?


28 posted on 12/13/2008 11:30:23 AM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: little jeremiah

THAT is an excellent point. You’re right.


29 posted on 12/13/2008 11:42:28 AM PST by TAdams8591 (Still waiting........ Finny!)
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To: TAdams8591

My personal views would be considered “extreme” so I’m not even stating them here! But at the very least, FULL DISCLOSURE of the possibility of abortion, as WELL AS the damage to the woman that is possible. BC pills are actually dangerous and very unnatural to the system. They are not benign. Messing with Mother Nature is never a good idea, it ALWAYS backfires.

Sorry for the caps - so much is happening and the nightmare of 0bama marches on...


30 posted on 12/13/2008 12:07:13 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: little jeremiah

No, your religious beliefs should not be found on product warning labels.


31 posted on 12/13/2008 12:30:03 PM PST by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: little jeremiah
I have always understood how damaging and dangerous they can be to women, and also that some like RU 486 were abortifiacients. But I did not know that they all cause abortions. I thought they prevented fertilization. However, I am glad I never used them, and even happier still, now knowing they caused abortion.

Women who use them have a right to know that to work they cause abortions, and can be very damaging to themselves as well.

Yes, 0bama is a nightmare and will prove so in the next four years. But will enough of the populace understand it?

At any rate, I am trying to enjoy what little time there is left before he takes office... Like many here, I don't know how I will abide the next four to eight years.

32 posted on 12/13/2008 12:31:24 PM PST by TAdams8591 (Still waiting........ Finny!)
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To: RKV

The fact that contraceptive pills can cause abortions and can cause damage to the woman are not religious tenets. What are you, an idiot?


33 posted on 12/13/2008 1:40:29 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: little jeremiah

The fact that millions of women safely use birth control of many types appears to be more than you can handle. Again, let me make it clear, if you’re a practicing Catholic don’t use it. If you’re a practicing Catholic (or other) and want to force women to follow the teachings of your church by changing laws - go away. You want the liberals to run this country for the next 1000 years? Then you just keep that anti-contraception crap up. You are scaring away many people who would otherwise find common cause with us on many other issues.

Not everyone happens to think that there is a soul, and not everyone thinks that an embryo has one. The common law of England recognized that until quickening (typically about week 20) abortion was at worst a misdemeanor. That is America’s legal heritage. Deal with it, like it or not. That history means that contraceptive pills are NEVER going to be illegal here. If you want other go to Italy (oops, abortion and contraception are legal there), or Spain (hey abortion and contraception are legal there too).

Let’s be clear as to who you are aligning yourself with. In October 2006, President Ahmadinejad of IRAN called for a scrapping of Iran’s existing birth control policies and for a baby boom to almost double the country’s population to 120 million. Go figure.


34 posted on 12/13/2008 5:26:02 PM PST by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: RKV

Really a contortionist to somehow make me “aligned” with Ahmedinejad! Sheesh! You’re also pushing a strawman argument. I didn’t say that contraception should be illegal. I said that full disclosure information should be given by the doc and in the box.

I don’t understand your ire, other than that you can’t tolerate viewpoints that differ from yours. I’d say that’s closer to Ahmademonjob than myself. He’s the one that can’t tolerate any dissension!


35 posted on 12/13/2008 5:48:37 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: little jeremiah

Another side effect of the pill is the lack of sex drive in the woman. The pill can really take the joy out of sex for a woman. Who wants that? All natural is the way to go! :0)


36 posted on 12/13/2008 6:32:45 PM PST by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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To: little jeremiah

The water is not the important part....

It’s the ‘NOTHING ELSE’...that matters...

:0)


37 posted on 12/13/2008 7:02:29 PM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Bigh4u2

LOL!


38 posted on 12/13/2008 8:18:33 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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