Conservatives Now Trying To Define Contraception As A Recreational Drug.

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30. here you go:

http://mypregnancycenter.org/programs.html

and

http://deaconforlife.blogspot.com/2011/10/birth-control-pill-is-drug.html

and


http://www.semperficatholic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13751&sid=9652a7ddc818f73c3538a919eba73d2c

THE BIRTH CONTROL PILL IS A "GATEWAY" DRUG
Pope Paul VI's Prophetic Warning

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"Undoubtedly, the Pill is a "gateway" drug, introducing its users to promiscuity, premarital pregnancy, abortion, and divorce. Is it any wonder that the divorce rate rose sharply in the 1960s with the wide popularity of the birth control pill, leveling off at the current disgraceful rate of about 50 percent once the contraceptives market became saturated? The link between contraception and abortion was stated unequivocally by the U.S. Supreme Court (in my opinion an arrogant, over-reaching legislative body) in the landmark 1992 Casey case. In this case, the high court upheld the constitutional right to abortion that Roe v. Wade had established. The court opined that a society with a right to contraception is obligated to have free access to abortion in case contraception fails.

Regarding the medical risks of the Pill, we can be relatively certain it comes with some risk of an early chemical abortion. What is not widely taught or explained about birth control pills is that they operate in three ways. First, they inhibit ovulation. Second, they change the cervical mucus so sperm cannot navigate through the cervix as well as usual. Third, they alter the lining of the uterus, the endometrium, so that it becomes inhospitable to the embryo, the newly developing human being.

If ovulation occurs, as can happen when using birth control pills, fertilization may take place in the fallopian tube. The newly formed human, called a zygote, develops quickly into an embryo, then passes down the tube heading for its first home in the uterus. The thinned uterine lining makes attachment very difficult, however, and an early, chemical abortion takes place.

I don't believe this happens a large percentage of the time. But with the millions upon millions of contracepted cycles occurring each year in the U.S., the number of such abortions could be large.

Possibly in response to this concern, some years ago the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists unilaterally redefined the start of pregnancy as successful implantation in the uterus. This, of course, was a thinly veiled, rhetorical sleight-of-hand that allowed them to claim that any agent acting prior to implantation was contraceptive and not abortifacient.

Shame on them and shame on all of us who have perpetuated the false dichotomy between contraception and abortion. They are truly fruit of the same evil tree. The sooner we and our Protestant brethren realize this, the sooner we will advance in the preservation and protection of life. "

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There was also an article on huffington post last Thursday but I can't find it. It's mostly catholics, and southern republicans who are trying to re-classifly specifically the pill, but in general contraceptives.