THIS is why the Religious Right wants to take away our access to birth control. Because of the unproven POSSIBILITY of an fertilized egg not implanting in the uterus.
I've heard this information time and time again from ardent anti-choicer groups to try to justify why they think birth control pills are the devil and why using contraceptives makes us all baby-killers, but I've never seen it put quite so.... um.... "scientifically"? One message from the video with which I agree is that people should know the truth. So here are some of the things this video (or any of the propaganda that comes from the compusory pregnancy movement) will not tell you:
First of all, it is estimated that about half of embryos never implant in the uterus anyway, instead naturally leaving women's bodies completely undetected. Second, it is incredibly misleading to call such an occurrence an "abortion" or a contraceptive that may or may not cause it an "abortifacient." "Abortion" is actually the termination of a pregnancy, which does not commence until the embryo implants in a woman's uterus and begins to develop with the help of the woman's body. There mere presence of a fertilized egg floating around inside a woman's body is NOT a pregnancy. Third, if hormonal birth control really does prevent an embryo from implanting, doctors and scientists have no way of knowing if or how often it occurs. (The video quickly states this but tries to dismiss it as unimportant.) A fertilized egg is completely undetectable unless or until it implants in a woman's uterus. And finally, even if studies could be done to detect these elusive un-implanted embryos, and even if they happened to show (however unlikely) that TONS and TONS of eggs were being fertilized despite birth control but never turning into pregnancies, this is NOT a valid reason to EVER take away a woman's right to control her own body.
Hear that? Not ever.
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