Here’s another one from Janet Smith.
Most people still believe that contraception is different from abortion.
I really can’t find any moral reason to be against contraception. The only link I’ve noticed between contraception and abortion is that people engaging in the latter very rarely bother with the former.
it is ironic how the advent of the pill did little to stop unwanted pregnancies if abortion is any guide
This is like the sixth or seventh thread you’ve done. Is this the Catholic caucus or what?
I have no problem if your religious conscience tells you not to use birth control. I do have a problem when 1. you want to make your beliefs on contraception law (not very likely) and 2. (More likely) I and millions of other tax payers have to pick up the tab for your brood.
This is true, but for decision-making purposes I'd like to know the numbers, i.e., the ratio of prevented ovulations to prevented implantations. If, for example, the overall rate of prevented implantation (in # of occurrences per unit time) is lower than the rate of spontaneous miscarriages would be when using no contraception, then the pill is saving lives.
Really excellently great article, Brian. Thanks for posting it.
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Excellent article. Thanks for posting it.
Besides the moral shipwreck that the contraceptive mentality breeds, there are serious health ramifications due to the adverse affects of the pill on the flora living in the human body, and this spills over into the TH1 and TH2 arms of the immune system. Here is a clip from Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride’s GAPS diet book:
“Contraceptive pills
have a devastating effect on the beneficial (good) bacteria in the gut. One of the
major functions of the good bacteria in the gut flora is controlling about 500
different known to science species of pathogenic (bad) and opportunistic
microbes. When the beneficial bacteria get destroyed the opportunists get a
special opportunity to grow into large colonies and occupy large areas of the
digestive tract. A modern diet of processed and fast foods provides perfect
nourishment for these pathogens and that is a typical diet a modern mum had as
a child and a young adult. As a result of all these factors a modern mum has
seriously compromised gut flora by the time she is ready to have children. And
indeed clinical signs of gut dysbiosis (abnormal gut flora) are present in almost
100% of mothers of children with autism and other neurological and psychiatric
conditions.
But why are we talking about mother’s gut flora? Because her baby is born with a
sterile gut. In the first 20 or so days of life the baby’s virgin gut surface gets
populated by a mixture of microbes. This is the child’s gut flora, which will have a
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tremendous effect on this child’s health for the rest of his/her life. Where does
this gut flora come from? Mainly from the mother.
So, whatever microbial flora the mother has she would pass to her new-born
child.
Gut flora is something we do not think much about. And yet the number of
functions the gut flora fulfils is so vital for us that if some day our digestive tract
got sterilised we probably would not survive.”