[toenail]

Contraception: prevents conception.
Abortifacient: works to starve or kill an already-conceived human.

Long ago, population controllers worked out a way to deflect criticism of abortifacient drugs and devices. At a 1959 conference, one expert suggested "a prudent habit of speech," hinting that it would be wise to consider implantation-rather than fertilization-the beginning of pregnancy. In 1962, in its "model penal code" project, the American Law Institute recommended legalizing the use of "drugs or other substances for avoiding pregnancy, whether by preventing implantation of a fertilized ovum or by any other method that operates before, at or immediately after fertilization."

In a 1964 Population Council conference, eugenicist Dr. Christopher Tietze pointedly reminded his colleagues that theologians and jurists do listen to doctors and biologists. "If a medical consensus develops and is maintained that pregnancy, and therefore life, begins at implantation, eventually our brethren from the other faculties will listen," he said. A committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists soon obliged Tietze by defining conception as "the implantation of a fertilized ovum." With that kind of support, the population controllers were off to the races, developing more and more abortifacients, which they usually referred to as "contraceptives" or simply "birth control."

Mary Meehan, The Road to Abortion [Part 1 of 2], The Human Life Review, Fall 1998

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And the Office of Population Research at Princeton is worth a visit, as well. And this thread.

[asformeandformyhouse]

"Bleeding at unexpected times is worrisome," he says.

I'm speechless. I don't know where to start on this idiot.

[MHGinTN]

Having worked --decades ago-- for a company that sold contraception pills and IUD's, I can appreciate the importance of your post, toenail.

When contraceptive pills were introduced, they were sold as 'birth control' pills, and IUD's were sold as birth control/contraceptive devices ... and they (the pills) did have some preventative effect, holding off ovulation (staving off the release of an egg, to prevent fertilization). But the secondary effect (not to be confused with a lesser number of prevented pregnancies then miscarriages/abortions) was to create a uterine lining inadequacy via hormonal intervention, which usually resulted in termination of any implantation by preventing the uterine circulatory buildup that follows implantation.

In short, contraceptive pills have always been an early form of abortifacient method since the greater percentage of effect is to starve the conceptus of life support from the woman's body. The IUD's worked to create an irritation of the lining, so that an implanted new individual human life would not be able to generate sufficiet nourishment from an iritated lining. These new chemical introductions are primarily effective doing the same thing, and it's instructive to see that they are still being pushed as 'contraception' when they are actually abortifacients.

[1redshirt]

Low cost contraception ...

place and hold firmly in place between knees.

[Xenalyte]

Here's a wild thought: how about not sleeping around? That way, no emergencies.

[MoJo2001]

Um, here's something: If ya don't wanna conceive, DON'T SPREAD YOUR LEGS!! It can happen during emergency times, but honestly..NO is always a good start.

[2ndMostConservativeBrdMember]

Emergency Contraception

I have this mental picture of Social Workers lurking around Lovers Lane knocking on car windows handing the occupants a little packet.