Contraception: Is It Sometimes Abortion?

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Nrtpjdtg of NC 7:49PM July 14, 2009

Doctors are simply not required to prescribe anything that they deem to be not appropriate. Are you kidding me? This has to be regulated? Our lawmakers definitely have better things to do with their time (and our taxpayer dollars) than draft or consider this! "Driven out of their jobs"? Highly doubtful, since physicians now have every right to refuse to give any treatment ranging from performing an abortion, setting a broken bone, or prescribing any course of treatment. What moral coercion is taking place? You want the prescription and your gynecologist won't write it? Go to another doctor. Your doctor has prescribed something you don't want to take? Don't swallow the pill. Blown out of proportion indeed. It's time for U.S. citizens to stop paying the salaries of those who're wasting their time and our money on useless regulations such as this.

Jan. of PA 10:11AM September 24, 2008

I agree that of course not every doctor will stop prescribing birth control, but we tend to forget about low-income girls living in the middle of nowhere where there might only be a handful of doctors. This is the most vunerable group because not only do they not always have access to education and birth-control, they might not have an advocate to tell them all of their options.

Jackie of IL 3:18PM August 18, 2008

The Bush Administration's proposal to change the definition of abortion and reduce women's access to birth control must be stopped."
http://www.floodthelines.com/contraceptionisnotabortion/
Contraception is NOT Abortion!

FLMom of FL 12:42PM August 15, 2008

There is no evidence at all that the pill prevents implantation. There is sufficient evidence that while on the pill, a woman will not ovulate at all. If she does, the pill is not working. And the pill is pretty damned effective if you study up and know how to take it, take it faithfully and do not mix it with antibiotics or other interfering drugs. This whole debate is pure fear-mongering. It's important to many women to be able to have sex without babies. I don't have a problem if conservatives don't like this idea, but our government should not be twisting science to support a religious agenda.
Learn the facts!!

Allison of IL 11:41PM August 14, 2008

While I personally find infanticide (I won't refer to it as "abortion" because that sounds like a legitimate and justifiable medical procedure, which it is, for the most part, NOT...) completely morally reprehensible and selfish, I don't know why so many people are in an uproar about this. It's not as though the government is trying to ban birth control pills completely. They're simply saying that doctors who have a sincere objection to the way birth control pills function should not be legally obligated to distribute them. If you don't like it, find a doctor who shares your beliefs. I'm sure morally questionable doctors can't be THAT hard to find.
Legally requiring doctors to practice something that goes against their sincerely held religious beliefs (ie. that life DOES, in fact, begin at conception) comes pretty close to violating that whole "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" thing, doesn't it?

4:24PM August 06, 2008

There’s no denying that people want control over their lives and what happens to their bodies.
But there’s uniqueness to women that men do not share. Women can get pregnant, that is, another human being can start to grow inside them. That’s how we reproduce.
I’ve seen some pretty ignorant posts here that suggest life did not begin at conception. That the foetus only became a person at some arbitrarily assigned stage in pregnancy. This must be the abyss of ignorance. So what was it that was growing inside you? Some THING that magically morphed into a person at some appointed time?
No, life begins at the zygotic level when the sperm and the egg fused to form a zygote. All of us started out in life as rapidly dividing zygotes in our mother’s wombs.
So for women, yeah, you are kind of compromised. Men can walk away after intercourse but women have to live with the consequence of it. That’s life on Earth; one sex bears the child 100% of the time. Another human being begins to grow inside you and it behoves you to act with responsibility and not murder that human being simply because you can.
The reasons for an abortion run the gamut of the trivial to the callous. It came at a “bad” time, it interferes with my career, I don’t FEEL like having a baby now, my boyfriend broke up with me, my husband left me, I WANT my freedom, I am STILL YOUNG, etc. If you think these are valid reasons, don’t complain if some one points a gun to your head and decides to snuff out your life for the very same reasons because YOU came at a “bad” time, you interfered with his/her career, etc.
The simple fact is that even though you may not want the pregnancy, you do not have the licence to murder, period.

Adam of NY 3:16PM August 03, 2008

My "diatribe" does include lots emotion and conscience...tends to differentiate me from the animals, I guess ...unfortunately you missed the point..I'll try to explain for you:
Mothers don't kill their young.
Are you a mother?
If so, imagine killing one of your children...worse yet, imagine making someone else do it so your hands remain free of the blood. Then pretend you are entitled. Hamlet anyone?
If not...imagine your mother killing you because you're a bother, a drain, too expensive, not wanted, a big annoyance ...or imagine your mother thinking her life was in some way more important than yours, more worthwhile, a better bet, worthy… just plain “entitled” to live at the expense of your life...you're expendable because she says so; so just be quiet and lay down and die, damn it. Be gone.
Does that make it clearer, Jenna? Simple isn't it?
Jenna, you aren't worthless. You aren't a “choice”. You are of life. Are you worthy of life? Are you?
If you think you are intitled to a voice as demonstrated on this blog post ( and a life), then why isn't the little "woman to be" in a sister’s womb worthy too? What makes some people worthy of life and some not? Do you know? Please answer. I must hear why.
And, Jenna, I certainly do realize the discussion is about the question: Should contraceptives be considered abortifacient and should doctors/pharmacists/clerks/etc be able to refuse to do their job whenever a patient needs contraception?
I'm just passionate about the lives of those who cannot speak. Those who are lost due to the abortificients of which we speak.
Are you thinking of, passionate about, the lives of anyone? Your sisters who want to join us in this human race? How about your brothers? If not, who not? Please tell us. Who do you choose to be worthy of living and breathing and having a say in anything?
Hey...Jenna...Are you next in the "dispensable to the world" category? I hope not. You are obviously intelligent. Use it. Save some lives. It’s a decent thing to do. I’d try to save your life. You're worth it.
I guess I'm "all caught up" now Jenna.

Lorraine of NY 9:52PM August 02, 2008

Doctors have a responsibility towards patients they need to uphold. One of them is to tell the patient the truth and give all options available, even if it goes against the doctors beliefs, personal biases should NOT be held in regard to the patient. Patients deserve honest and reliable information regardless of situation. I personally would be sickened if I were ever told my reproductive freedom was in question, and I would never myself treat a patient in that manner.

Lindsey of IA 9:50AM July 30, 2008