Comments on: How’s that whole “Obama is the pro-life candidate” thing working out for you? http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2009/04/22/hows-that-whole-obama-is-the-pro-life-candidate-thing-working-out-for-you/ Religion, Politics, and other offensive stuff Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:11:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Chris http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2009/04/22/hows-that-whole-obama-is-the-pro-life-candidate-thing-working-out-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1115 Chris Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:26:55 +0000 http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/?p=531#comment-1115 If you buy into the abortion industry's redefinition of the word abortion, you're right, it's not an abortion pill. Problem is, I don't work in a world where words get redefined to make things more convenient and seem less bad. Throughout the website they don't do a whole lot of details about exactly how it works except to say it's a large dose of the same drugs as in regular birth control (which has abortafacient properties.) Regular birth control does 2 things: 1. inhibits ovulation (primary) 2. makes the uterus inhospitable to an embryo in case #1 fails. From what I can understand, Plan B primarily does #2. Now, I know Bill Clinton doesn't know what an embryo is, but I am trusting you do. For the peanut gallery, let's go through it. An embryo is a fertilized egg. It's an egg that has been united with a sperm and has begun growing into a human baby. Purposely making the uterine lining inhospitable to the implantation of the embryo results in that embryo passing from the body and dying. Hence, it's abortion. It's much "prettier" than chopping a baby up later on in pregnancy, and you don't really know for sure if you've just aborted a baby. Pretty or not, purposely preventing an embryo from reaching maturity is abortion. Your line about how making Plan B available to 17-yr-olds will not increase abortions is a red herring on many levels. First of all, since it prevents embryos from implanting it will increase abortions. Secondly, every time new and better contraception becomes available, everyone talks about how there will be far fewer unwanted pregnancies. Yet ever since contraception has been available the number of unwanted pregnancies has increased, thus necessitating the need for legalized abortion. Contraception leads to abortion, history proves it. If you buy into the abortion industry’s redefinition of the word abortion, you’re right, it’s not an abortion pill. Problem is, I don’t work in a world where words get redefined to make things more convenient and seem less bad. Throughout the website they don’t do a whole lot of details about exactly how it works except to say it’s a large dose of the same drugs as in regular birth control (which has abortafacient properties.) Regular birth control does 2 things: 1. inhibits ovulation (primary) 2. makes the uterus inhospitable to an embryo in case #1 fails.

From what I can understand, Plan B primarily does #2.

Now, I know Bill Clinton doesn’t know what an embryo is, but I am trusting you do. For the peanut gallery, let’s go through it. An embryo is a fertilized egg. It’s an egg that has been united with a sperm and has begun growing into a human baby. Purposely making the uterine lining inhospitable to the implantation of the embryo results in that embryo passing from the body and dying. Hence, it’s abortion. It’s much “prettier” than chopping a baby up later on in pregnancy, and you don’t really know for sure if you’ve just aborted a baby.

Pretty or not, purposely preventing an embryo from reaching maturity is abortion.

Your line about how making Plan B available to 17-yr-olds will not increase abortions is a red herring on many levels. First of all, since it prevents embryos from implanting it will increase abortions. Secondly, every time new and better contraception becomes available, everyone talks about how there will be far fewer unwanted pregnancies. Yet ever since contraception has been available the number of unwanted pregnancies has increased, thus necessitating the need for legalized abortion. Contraception leads to abortion, history proves it.

]]> By: Curt http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2009/04/22/hows-that-whole-obama-is-the-pro-life-candidate-thing-working-out-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1113 Curt Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:59:36 +0000 http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/?p=531#comment-1113 I understand your concern, but Plan B is NOT the abortion pill. It is an emergency contraceptive. The abortion pill is RU-486. Plan B is not RU-486. Please get the facts straight. That this is now available to 17-year-olds does in no way, shape or form increase the number of abortions worldwide. http://www.go2planb.com/ I understand your concern, but Plan B is NOT the abortion pill. It is an emergency contraceptive.

The abortion pill is RU-486. Plan B is not RU-486.

Please get the facts straight. That this is now available to 17-year-olds does in no way, shape or form increase the number of abortions worldwide.

http://www.go2planb.com/

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