[toenail]

"After having my son 9 months ago, I had the obligatory 6 week check-up birth control discussion with my ob/gyn. I informed him why I would not be taking the pill, and he confirmed it to me as well, that the pill can in fact act as an abortifacient. He didn't offer the info, but certainly agreed with my determination when presented with it. This is so outrageous. So many women don't know, and I think more than a few would want to."

One of my wife's best friends just delivered her baby and was discussing going back on the pill, and my wife mentioned the sometimes-abortifacient nature of the pill. Her friend didn't know anything about it, so I can reasonably infer that her physician simply did not inform her. Well, a little email can cure the lack of information.

AMA jerks.

[misterman]

Do these women not know that emergency contraception (morning after) is just an increased number of birth control pills?

[Aristophanes]

Re: the dirty little secret of the Pill --

My wife and I didn't know this either (that the Pill is an abortifacient). I discovered it by accident while reading Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), by Pope John Paul II. At the time, we were not Catholics but we were adamantly pro-life. The revelation that we could have been having early-term abortions and never known it, rocked us to our core.

Recently my wife was in the hospital after experiencing problems with an exceptionally heavy flow. The OB/GYN immediately recommended putting her on birth control pills which we rejected. When we told her we wouldn't do it due to the possible abortifacient effect, the doctor got this "deer in the headlights" look on her face like "Uh-oh, THEY KNOW."

(By the way, Chloryphyll supplements cleared up the problem without having to resort to using the Pill. I hear that flax seed oil works as well.)

[MHGinTN]

Nearly thirty years ago I was selling IUD's and contraceptive pills for Searle Labs. I became a Christian and realized that I couldn't in good conscience support abortion. I had been trained to sell the above mentioned products as contraceptives. When I learned that they were also on occasion abortifacient (that was nearly thirty years ago, so how up-to-date is the current AMA?) I had to inform my boss that I couldn't sell those any longer. It was then that the company admitted--not before and we were not taught that--the products did on rare occasion cause the miscarrying of a conceptus. The pharmaceutical industry drives too much of the AMA's rationale. These 'doctors' know thr truth, but choose to promote the lies because of profits ... doctors are the largets shareholders in pharmaceutical and insurance companies.