Birth Control Pill Turns 50: 7 Ways It Changed Lives

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jm of IA 2:17PM September 03, 2010

Abortion is killing an unborn baby (fetus).
At Genesis 38:6-10, Onan's sin was in refusing to faithfully perform brother-in-law marriage so as to produce offspring for his older brother, who had died. Instead, Onan spilled his semen on the ground when he had sex with Tamar (not during an act of masturbation) because he didn't want to have offspring for his brother, even though that was God's law for his chosen people at the time. While it is true that 'pulling out early' isn't a reliable means of birth control, it was his refusal to act as his father had instructed him and deliberately defying God that was sinful. Masturbation itself is not specifically mentioned anywhere in the Bible, though it 'could' be referred to as loose conduct at Galatians 5:19.

Jub of OK 5:58AM August 24, 2010

"Also, if abortion is murder, what's that make male masturbation? Genocide? Get a clue."
Because this statement screams of irrational thought, it would be a good idea to provide some sort of definition for the terms:
Abortion: the deliberate, and direct, destruction of a "fetus" (aka: sperm + egg = fetus...which is a human with its own dna)
Abortion is murder because it involves the deliberate and direct taking of the life of an innocent human being.
In masturbation, sperm alone is involved. This means that no innocent human being is murdered.
That is all.

KB of IA 5:03PM July 26, 2010

Actually, if you are married and you are masturbating, then it can be murder if it inhibits you from having relations with your wife. This is why people should not masturbate while married - it could be murderous.
As someone who defends masturbation and baby killing, your value for human life is obviously very low. To repair this, you should learn more about the meaning and value of life.

PK of MD 9:21AM May 31, 2010

Duwayne Kooter,
You're so ignorant it's ridiculous. The pill is not a murderer, if anyone, it's the user. Calling it so makes just as much sense as calling a knife a murderer. It's simply a tool. Also, if abortion is murder, what's that make male masturbation? Genocide? Get a clue.

Devan Cogburn of AZ 7:25PM May 26, 2010

increases breast cancer risk by 44%: see Mayo Clinic Proceedings: October 2006
21 out of 23 studies are positive
it's being blacked out
read the study

CK of PA 6:25PM May 21, 2010

The birth control pill is just a nother way to kill babys. It's a pill abortion. Your all baby killers and you even laff when you rite about it. I'm Pro-Life and all you wumen shud be two. Yall just wait for 2012 wen we elect a Republicin president. We gonna blo up Irand and get this contry back to were it belongs. No wemans rites no more. Rand paul is rite. no negros no weman allowed. we gots rites to.

Duwayne Kooter of MS 4:47PM May 21, 2010

I feel as though the pill has certainly been a source of empowerment for women. It has helped women in so many ways. Birth control does not just help control pregancy, but it also helps out women in cases of other health issues. I have been taking the pill since I was in high school, of course now I take for sexual intercourse as well, but when I first started taking birth control, I was taking it for polycystic ovarian syndrome, which helped to make me have regualr periods, because mines were irregualr. Birth control can also help make your skin clearer as well. I think the pill is a great source for all women, and women should certainly get on it if they are contemplating it. It can change your life.

Marie of VA 6:23PM May 10, 2010

The following is by L.W. Hayes, MD ABOG. I never did prescibe birth control medication. If a patient felt condemned by the probability of becoming an Alzheimer patient, I would advise a lady age 40 plus who no longer treasured
her reproductive orgns to have abdominal hysterectomy and Bilateral
Salpilgo-oophorectomy prior to the menopause. Then a program of estrogen
replacement therapy and removal of breast tissue, again to prevent malignant
changes in the endometrium and breast tissue. A program of bi-annual carotid
artery ultrasound to ascertain patency and a means of determining adequate
estrogen replacement , was put in place for each patient with a family history
of Alzheimers who requested help. Estrogen protects arteries, bones and the psyche of women. A very sad fact about my experience with this illness is that
children of Alzheimers victims livein denial. And this may well be why the number of Alzheimer patients increases every year. Birth control pill pills contain
progesterone, a steroid, and she being over 40, is an unhappy camper. An
interesting fact is, tha prior to autopsy, the diagnosis ofAlzheimers cannot be
made; only the clinical impression unless ultrasound of the carotid arteries is
done. It is the gradual closing of these vessels, following menopause which
leads to the death of the brain.
L. W. Hayes M.D. ABOG Charles R. Schaechter 309 764-6814 5-10-2010C

Charles R. Schaechter of IL 2:48PM May 10, 2010