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well...hormonal birth controls ARE/CAN BE abortive. I don't think any person should be required to dispense them.
My OB/GYN is prolife. I know for a fact he will not and does not perform abortions (part of the reason I chose him and drive a little further etc) but I do know he prescribes birth control. I guess some view them differently.

I agree with the proposal.

Good for Bush.

I agree 100%. And this made me think about it - isn't abortion a violation of the Hippocratic Oath?

Thing that has be concerned is that the administration is considering the birth control pill to be a form of abortion.

They are...

Some forms of contraception, specifically the intrauterine device (IUD), Norplant, and certain low-dose oral contraceptives, often do not prevent conception but prevent implantation of an already fertilized ovum. The result is an early abortion, the killing of an already conceived individual. Tragically, many women are not told this by their physicians, and therefore do not make an informed choice about which contraceptive to use."

That's because the pill is "not widely known" to cause abortions... no one wants to talk bout it, but that's why we no longer use the pill, because of even the slightest risk of it causin an abortion in the first place.

Info if interested

I do like Bush for his social conservatism, even if I'm cynical about his motives for the war.

I've heard that birth control pills used to be labelled as "abortifacients" (i.e. abortion-causing) until the 1970s, when the drug companies slyly, or deceitfully, removed mention of it from their packaging, for marketing reasons to be sure.

As convenient as using the pill, or other hormonal birth control, may be, we all need to be educated that they can block implantation of a newly conceived person, causing him or her to be flushed out of the system and die in a sewer or trash can somewhere. I'm not trying to be dramatic here, but that's an accurate description, without using cold medical jargon, like zygote, blastocyst, fetus, termination, etc.

:thumbsup: Exactly..

A while back I read that it was on the package insert that comes with the pills listed under the ways that the pill works: By thickening cervical mucous to inhibit sperm motility, inhibiting ovulation, and preventing implantation. When the pro-life groups began protesting implantation prevention as a method of abortion the pharmacutical companies took it out of the insert.

Sometimes women do in fact ovulate while on the pill ( me for example--) and sometimes those eggs do get fertilized. If the endometrium has been thinned out enough by the hormonal BC pills, then those fertilized eggs, those new lives, will die and pass with shedding of the uterus. The endometrium becomes a hostile environment rather than the nourishing place it was created to be. That is how the pill can cause an early abortion. And if you believe life begins at conception then taking the pill is not an option.

Unfortunately people often confuse conception with implantation.

So SF49erFan...are you still concerned? Thoughts?