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Originally Posted by Lightdemon  The biggest problem I think is that birth control pills will be seen as "killing a human life" every time the pill stops the reproductive process in the woman's body.
I might be wrong, so please correct me if I am, but doesn't birth control pills decieve the body into thinking that the fertalized egg is a foreign object, therefore sending antibodies and other disease fighting cells to eliminate that foreign object? Like a bacterial infection? |
No.
BC pills contain a small amount of synthetic hormones (estrogen and progestin).
Hormonal contraception works in three ways: first, these hormones- in theory- stop the ovaries from releasing an egg (although sometimes an egg is released anyway).
Second, hormonal contraception thickens and alters (by acidifying) the pH balance of cervical secretions, making it difficult for sperm to travel through the cervix and get to an egg.
Third, hormonal contraception thins the endometrium (uterine lining- the blood and tissue that is shed each month via menstruation) so that if all else fails, and an egg is released and fertilized, it can't implant in the uterine lining, and is simply expelled along with the menses.
So, no, nothing "attacks" fertilized eggs.
BC simply makes the uterine lining "inhospitable" to them (because it's not thick enough for them to implant).
Hardly a crime, I'd say. There's no law saying one
has to make one's body 'hospitable' to unwanted invaders.