Call to Action for Women

Hi, Dani! If you do release an egg and it gets fertilized while on the pill, you will be pregnant. A certain percentage of women do get pregnant on the pill. The dosage of hormones in the pill is too low to cause termination and the baby is unlikely to be affected even if you remain on the pill until you realize you are pregnant. Your risk of getting pregnant on the pill stems mostly from not taking it correctly.
 
Thanks Bobbi. It's not the getting pregnant that scares me, it's the pill preventing the fertilized egg implanting in the uterus that scares me. For my own moral reasons I wouldn't want to kill a fertilized egg without even knowing it.
 
Dani...

Dani,

Yes, this is a view that some people take regarding hormonal contraception. It is really a question (or argument) of defintion, which can ignite heated debates. :) So, here are documented facts about how the hormones in oral, transdermal, and injectable contraceptives prevent pregnancy:
1) Inhibiting ovulation (Primary)
2) Thickening cervical mucus making it difficult for sperm to pass through the cervix
3) Producing an endometrium (lining of the uterus) that is not receptive to implantation

This information is documented in medical books (Contraceptive Technology, Clinical Gynecology Endocrinology, and Infertility, etc.), the web (http://www.plannedparenthood.org/bc/bcfacts11.html#PILL), and can be found on the package insert of various hormonal contraceptives. For example,
http://www.ortho-mcneil.com/products/pi/pdfs/cycltri.pdf
http://www.orthomcneil.com/products/pi/pdfs/orthoevra.pdf
http://www.yasmin-us.com/Physician_PI.pdf
http://www.pfizer.com/download/ppi_depo_provera_contraceptive.pdf

The statistics regarding how often implantation is prevented related to contraceptive use will vary, but family planning experts usually report that this rarely occurs.

Let me add that I provide family planning services, so I support reproductive choices. However, I am familiar with the moral/religious implications of this issue, because I am Catholic and have faced many “firing squads” :). I see both perspectives.

Hope this helps!

Autumn
 
Thank you Autumn!!

I just wanted to thank you for all this info!! It really helps! I never new that this was even a possibility.

Thank you Bobbi for your email too.

I really appreciate it!!!!

;)
 
I just want to say thank you to all of you who replied to my post, and with such passion, too!
I have been a Cathe devotee since 1995 and have just been a lurker, but this issue just made me so upset that I finally decided to post. My husband was actually the one who suggested that I post here because of the exposure it would get and I am amazed at the response!
I hope that you each tell someone else about this issue. Imagine how many letters CVS and your state representatives will get if we each spoke our mind! I sincerely hope that you'll take the time to write or e-mail to your state reps especially if you live in Arkansas, South Dakota, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington or Wisconsin.
I have written to the CEO and I will forward the response to you when I get one. I live in New Hampshire and fortunately my state is NOT one currently considering the "conscience clauses", but I am going to write my state reps anyway and let them know how strongly I feel about this issue.
I really feel strengthened by the way a grass roots effort can be started on this forum.
Thanks for all your support!
Lisa:D
 
Oh my!!! What an control freak!

I'm Roman Catholic and never used BC myself but geez whiz I have no rights at all to impose that on anyone else, not even on RC's that use BC!!!

Love
Edith
:+
 
>If you do release an egg and it gets fertilized
>while on the pill, you will be pregnant.
Delurking to make a tiny clarification. Fertilized eggs pass through our bodies without implantation all the time. However, pregnancy occurs at implantation, not fertilization. The Pill can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting, but it cannot harm an already implanted egg. The distinction seems tiny, but it's the difference between the birthcontrol Pill, which sometimes prevents pregnancy/implantation, and the RU486 pill, which is designed to terminate pregnancy. Of course, if one's belief is that any fertilized egg, whether fertilized in the womb or in a petri dish, should be implanted, then this distinction may not matter, and I respect that. However, I'm only posting to make sure that a clear distinction between preventing pregnancy and terminating pregnancy is maintained.


Thanks, luvtoglobetrot for making this informative post. Imagine being lectured and having your presciption turned down, then having to pharmacy-shop to get it filled. What an outrage.
 
You make a very important point that I did not get into in my post. It goes back to the defintion of pregnancy, which is a matter of opinion. The scientific defintion has pregnancy begining with implantation not fertilization. That is one of the reasons some religions, and some people for that matter, find hormonal contraception immoral (I hate to use that term). I, like you, can respect that view.
 
Hi, lollaleeloo! Thank you. I did a little more web searching found additional information on the subject, which I passed onto Dani. The first site I looked at was very general and with further delving, I realized that I was incorrect about my first statement but rather than go into it-it's so complex- I emailed Dani the information I found. I am sorry I inadvertantly misinformed everyone. The female reproductive system is far from simple and so, I guess, is birth contol!! :)
Bobbi http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/chicken.gif "Chick's rule!"
 
I will stay away from.....

the whole pregnancy debate. I will say the pharmacist should just do her damn job or go work somewhere else. If her beliefs interfere with said job then she's got to go....
And yes our freedoms are and will continue to disappear, believe me. You would not believe the stuff I read about from various sources or hear on the radio.
Did you know that Toyota has a prototype car which you start by inserting your driver's license into it? The car then checks your driving record and if it has some speeding violations on it, guess what? The car limits it's horsepower while you drive.
Did you know that Baja Beach Club of Madrid uses embedded microchips from a company called Veriplan, I believe, to identify you as to whether you should have access to VIP treatment at the club? Think of the misuses for that.
Plans are in the works to have chip readers on highways that will read a plate installed on all cars and will record your speed and other pertinent info.
In England, the old red light camera is being used to track down people with unpaid bills....
Did you know that under the Patriot Act, you can be thrown in the slammer without just cause?
These are but a few.....
So yes everyone, your rights and freedoms are disappearing faster and faster every day.
Trevor :)
 
RE: Thank you Autumn!!

>I just wanted to thank you for all this info!! It really
>helps! I never new that this was even a possibility.
>
>Thank you Bobbi for your email too.
>
>I really appreciate it!!!!
>
>;)


Duh! I meant never "knew" not "new". That's what happens when you type too fast! Oh and thanks lollaleeloo for your clarification!! I appreciate all this info. I have an appt. next week, to talk to my doc about my future choices/alternatives for BC.
 
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