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A Contraceptive Implant with Remote Control
Richard Dawkins Foundation ^ | July 8, 2014 | Gwen Kinkead

Posted on 07/09/2014 12:49:36 PM PDT by lbryce

The hunt for a perfect contraceptive has gone on for millennia. A new candidate is now on the horizon: a wireless implant that can be turned on and off with a remote control and that is designed to last up to 16 years. If it passes safety and efficacy tests, the device would be more convenient for many women because, unlike existing contraceptive implants, it can be deactivated without a trip to the clinic and an outpatient procedure, and it would last nearly half their reproductive life.

Developed by MicroCHIPS of Lexington, Massachusetts, the device will begin pre-clinical testing next year in the U.S. The goal is to have it on the market by 2018.

The device measures 20 x 20 x 7 millimeters, and it is designed to be implanted under the skin of the buttocks, upper arm, or abdomen. It dispenses 30 micrograms a day of levonorgestrel, a hormone already used in several kinds of contraceptives. Sixteen years’ worth of the hormone fits in tiny reservoirs on a microchip 1.5 centimeters wide inside the device. MicroCHIPS invented a hermetic titanium and platinum seal on the reservoirs containing the levonorgestrel. Passing an electric current through the seal from an internal battery melts it temporarily, allowing a small dose of the hormone to diffuse out each day.

(Excerpt) Read more at richarddawkins.net ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antitheism; atheist; atheistsupremacist; childkiller; culturewar; darwinaward; death; godlessamerica; levonorgestrel; richarddawkins; sexualrevolution2; sexualrevolutionii; waronchildren; waronmarriage; zpg
This is a case where the Devil is literally in the details. If only they would spend as much time, energy, in conceiving ways to preserve life instead of destroying it, they might consider themselves useful.
1 posted on 07/09/2014 12:49:36 PM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce

If you control birth control, you control birth


2 posted on 07/09/2014 12:53:06 PM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: lbryce

Will Obama make it mandatory?


3 posted on 07/09/2014 12:54:45 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: lbryce
Medicine's Noble Goal: to disable your favorite female's physiological function!

We're already way below ZPG: believe me, there's not future in this.

4 posted on 07/09/2014 12:54:45 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Without justice, what is the State but a great band of robbers?" - St. Augustine)
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To: Dixie Yooper

And if you control birth, you control birth control.


5 posted on 07/09/2014 12:55:25 PM PDT by lbryce (Barack Obama:Misbegotten, Bastard Offspring of Satan and Medusa.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
We're already way below ZPG: believe me, there's not future in this.

It gives the Socialist Left the backing to claim "we MUST import more third world persons into the UK,US, etc. to fill the gap in declining birthrates..."

The 68 revolutionaries' goal is to kill of the "native" culture (50 million dead babies in America since 1973) and import pro-Socialist immigrants.

6 posted on 07/09/2014 12:58:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: GeronL

And order variants to pump other chemicals or signals when a dissident is no longer tolerated.


7 posted on 07/09/2014 1:00:11 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: wally_bert

bump


8 posted on 07/09/2014 1:00:58 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: lbryce
"To conceive, women turn off the implant with a remote control; another click of the remote restarts it. After 16 years, it could be removed. Doctors could also adjust dosages remotely."

Ah. So not only the woman can do this, but the doctor, via remote control ... or anybody else who can figure out the electronic on/off toggle.

But that's OK. Women's bodies basically need to be disabled.

Need I add /s/ Talk about War on Women. I hate this whole ideology: root and branch, theory and practice.

9 posted on 07/09/2014 1:09:19 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Most of us know more from being old, than from being told.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Don’t you understand that nature and female bodies are inherently badly designed to leftists? They need to be “fixed” and “controlled”.

Leftists are crazy


10 posted on 07/09/2014 1:11:14 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: South40

Perry might order it for all 12 year old girls in Texas.


11 posted on 07/09/2014 1:11:51 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: lbryce

Put them in those who do not pay taxes and give the remote control to those who do.


12 posted on 07/09/2014 1:22:08 PM PDT by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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