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To: CaptainMorgantown
1) The hormone contained in the birth control pill can act to delay or prevent ovulation. Since conception sometimes takes place a day or two after the act, if the pill is taken after the act but before ovulation and it successfully prevents ovulation then a pregancy can be prevented before it occurs.

No. It can take a good month for the cumulative effect of the birth control pills to set in and prevent ovulation. When used after sex as a birth control, there is nothing the hormones can do to stop a ripening follicle at that point.

Your #2 was correct.

167 posted on 06/04/2006 11:21:59 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle; CaptainMorgantown
[[1) The hormone contained in the birth control pill can act to delay or prevent ovulation. Since conception sometimes takes place a day or two after the act, if the pill is taken after the act but before ovulation and it successfully prevents ovulation then a pregancy can be prevented before it occurs.]

No.

YES! See previous posts.

It can take a good month for the cumulative effect of the birth control pills to set in and prevent ovulation.

ONLY because the amounts used in standard birth control pills is intentionally very low so that it's safe for long-term usage (i.e, for many years continuously). A single large "blast" of progesterone, on the other hand, CAN AND DOES interrupt an ovulation cycle that was on the verge of occurring by suppressing the release of Luteinizing Hormone, the chemical "trigger" which sets off the final release of the developed ovarian follicle. Please learn something about a topic before you make more false statements about it. .

When used after sex as a birth control, there is nothing the hormones can do to stop a ripening follicle at that point.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Is there any particular reason you didn't bother to verify your presumption before you posted it as if it were a fact?

Your #2 was correct.

No, it isn't, as verified by quite a few studies.

Just a bit of advice: You might want to refrain from sharing your uninformed opinions when you don't know what in the hell you're talking about.

175 posted on 06/04/2006 11:57:16 AM PDT by Ichneumon (Ignorance is curable, but the afflicted has to want to be cured.)
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