Pro-aborts are forcing pro-lifers to stop dodging the contraception issue
A few months ago, IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich forced a temporary rule on IL pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptives even if that would betray their consciences. One way ECs may work is by stopping an embryo from implanting in the uterus – abortion.
Yesterday, a bi-partisan legislative committee voted to make Blagojevich’s temporary rule binding.
The Copley News Service reported:
The rule will require pharmacies that dispense contraceptives to fill birth-control prescriptions “without delay,” or help patients make other arrangements. Alternatives can include transferring the prescription to another pharmacy or handing it back at the patient’s request.
In other words, if a pharmacy carries regular birth control pills, it cannot refuse to dispense ECs.
There are many (pharmacists) who believe that the morning-after pill is an act of abortion,” [GOP state Sen. David] Leitch said. “That is a right of conscience. To use this gimmick to characterize morning-after pills as conventional contraception is simply wrong.”
But it’s not wrong. ECs are simply megadoses of the same hormones used in contraceptive pills. In other words, if ECs potentially abort, so do birth control pills. And both do.
But may pro-life organizations, including National Right to Life, have resisted taking a position on birth control pills. This presents a quandary.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Yep, I agree 100%. This issue has made me wonder why we keep silent on contraception but not Plan B!
Here, in Peoria, there is a small group who protest and pray on a regular basis at the local Planned Parenthood — which prescribes birth control pills and other contraceptives but refers clients to a local clinic for abortions.
It’s perfectly reasonable for an organization to refuse to take a stand on contraception, because there’s so much disagreement. We need to focus on where we agree — once you know that baby exists, you have no right to kill it.
Individuals, on the other hand, need to take a stand. Mine is a “permit but discourage.” I’ve seen the wisdom of the Catholic Church’s anticontraception stand, because I’ve seen the damage done by trying to pretend that sex and procreation are not related. But I can’t force wisdom on those who choose to lack it. If people want to accept all the risks of commitment-free sex, that’s their right. But they need to accept the responsibilities, which include parenthood.
As for contraceptives that have a secondary abortifacient effect, since the intent isn’t to kill, it’s just an occasional side-effect, I can’t go after them the way I go after the deliberate killing of babies whose existence has been verified. For now I’ve settled for a strong “informed consent” stand — women have the right to know that they might be turning their bodies into tiny automatic abortion mills. And we need to stop pretending that there’s no moral issue in doing that.
You know the pill failures conribute heavily to abortion. They are linked in a thousand undenialble ways. Prolife people who use birthcontrol find themselves at the abortion clinic just as often as prochoice ones. If BC is supposed to prevent pregnancy and you think your planning your babies then a crisis pregnancy puts you in the same place as a prochoicer.
I, on the other hand, know I am not taking anything and will accept any result of that. Currently that means a sixth baby and Im not even gonna be 30 till september 06. I never considered abortion. Its just what my body does.
And why do I reject birth control.. Well little darling because in december of 97, after my 3rd round on depo-which included severe headaches, male fat weight gain, **hair loss**(and I mean clumps at a time) and severe depression I began to spot then I began to bleed and then I blacked out and woke up with blood in the tub and on the bathroom floor and and on a large white towel that my husband has nearly lost an arm trying to throw away. I knew I had lost something. I knew when I had my 3rd child-the kid who was supposed to make it all better but didnt-when she came out she was still half in her bag and it didnt break till then and I realized I had felt that same slipping feeling, but smaller, before. I figure I was about 8 weeks pregnant. I figure that because of how I felt at 8 weeks and a tiny little spot of that night that comes back to me in my dreams. Add that to a dream about me driving off in a truck with 2 little girls tied behined it who just slip out of sight. I dont do well on days when I have those dreams. I die a little.
Now I didnt have an abortion. I was just using depo. Birthcontrol right. And this makes a damn bit of difference to me right. Its still 2 dead one wounded. The fight against abortion includes the fight against BC. You cannot distinguish between them psycologically or or physically when they produce the same effects. I was depressed for years afterwords. I could move I would lay in bed all day. I have nightmared. It was only BC. Right?
I have to take issue with the term “intent” – If I am pregnant and smoke crack my “intent” is not to harm my baby but to get high myself. Obviously this is not acceptable. People who drive drunk don’t “intend” to kill innocent bystanders. Tell their families this is just an “occasional side-effect”. We absolutely need to take a stance on the BCP. I think that birth control causes the mentalily that children are diseases….they are something to “prevent”. If we as a society have this view then how on earth are we going to reduce abortions? First we need to begin valuing children again. We value children when we fully accept them as the blessings they are and allow God to plan our families.
I have talked to alot of females that have been on the depo shot over the years and every female has had one problem or another. When i was in high school and you showed up to the health department they wanted every female to get on the depo. So what did we do. We said ok and went back every three months to get the same shot over and over. I was on the shot from the time i was 14 years old till i was almost 20. i am now 24 and unable to have children. My doctor says that i a am ok. But I i feel in my heart that this isn’t right. Are there more females out there like me.