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"The Texas judge [Mathew Kacsmaryk] who could take down the abortion pill "We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse "Georgia Just Criminalized Abortion. Women Who Terminate Their Pregnancies Would Receive Life in Prison.""
4/20/2022 by Mimi Zieman
A religious minority is emboldened with the current conservative makeup of the Supreme Court, forging a battle on the front lines of statehouses, not just against abortion—but against contraception.
Participants at the Capital Pride parade in 2012 in Washington, D.C. (Adam Fagen / Flickr)
Insert: She, the nurse, either doesn't know that most, if not all, contraceptive methods actually cut the number of failed embryos. So if she believes an embryo is 'life' than using contraceptive methods saves 'embryonic life.' Same for the faulty logic of the anti-abortionists of the Supreme Court.
In the Hobby Lobby case, the religious lobby articulated their beliefs, similar to Strader’s, that life begins at conception, the moment when a sperm fertilizes an egg to produce an embryo, and they define an “abortion” to include the failure of an embryo to implant in the uterus after fertilization. They then argue, inaccurately, that some methods of birth control including IUDs work by preventing embryos from implanting in the uterus, thereby causing what they call “abortions.”
I will call these embryo abortions, as opposed to the medical term for abortion, which is the loss of a pregnancy after an embryo has attached to the uterus. The medical establishment only considers someone pregnant after the successful attachment of an embryo to the uterus because only then can we measure the pregnancy hormone HCG thus diagnosing, or confirming, someone as pregnant.
[This post was ignored by livefree_ordie, February, 2023: Nonsense. A zygote has no feeling and suffers no loss if aborted. You have no thought there but selfish authoritarian, patriarchal ideology. If you cared beyond that you would appreciate much more about respect for women. And about life. See: Texas’ restrictive abortion law previews a post-Roe America "Making Abortion Murder "How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement .. bits .. Without Birth Control: 6 zygotes will “die” With Birth Control: 2 zygotes will “die”"" https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171298938]
The scientific fact not addressed, or not known, by the religious right is that embryo abortions are much more common when no birth control method is used. Researchers have estimated .. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12206468/ .. when a couple does not use birth control (the default when contraception is less accessible) 30 percent of embryos created never implant and another 30 percent briefly implant before being passed from the body without the woman even noticing, adding up to a majority of embryos formed. In other words, the default state of sex without contraception is embryo abortions—or what the right sees as a large loss of potential life.
Anyone holding religious beliefs about embryos deserving protection should actively support the use of birth control in general, specifically IUDs, to prevent these embryo losses as much as possible. Birth control prevents embryos from forming in the first place and therefore prevents failed implantation and embryo abortions.
A religious person may argue that when embryos are formed and lost without using birth control, it is part of God’s plan. It seems it would then still be part of God’s plan if embryos are lost with an IUD in place. There would just be fewer losses.
" Increasing access to and use of effective contraception can reduce unintended pregnancies and further reduce the number of abortions performed in the United States. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Regarding IUDs, it’s important to note all current scientific evidence supports that they work primarily by preventing fertilization, rather than interfering with the implantation of embryos. Since fertilization does not occur, the argument about “preventing implantation” of the embryo is moot. As researchers Ortiz and Croxatto wrote in a review article .. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17531610/ , “The bulk of the data indicate that if any embryos are formed in the chronic presence of an IUD, it happens at a much lower rate than in non-IUD users. The common belief that the usual mechanism … is destruction of embryos in the uterus is not supported by empirical evidence.”
Given this evidence alone—that fewer embryos are formed and subsequently lost in the presence of contraception—there would be a strong argument for religious employers to support access to all contraceptives. IUDs do more than prevent embryo abortions, they also effectively prevent medically recognized abortions. In a study .. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23168752/ .. by J.F. Peipert and colleagues, when no-cost IUDs and implants were widely used in St. Louis, abortion rates in the city plummeted to less than half of the national rates. A Colorado Family Planning initiative .. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bfk7CS8I5W92iCS0g8_COTBmi8a-JxZ4/view .. made long-acting contraceptive methods (IUDs and implants) affordable, which resulted in a 50 percent drop in teen births and abortions, saving the state 70 million dollars.
As the CDC summarized in recent research .. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30462632/#affiliation-1 , “Increasing access to and use of effective contraception can reduce unintended pregnancies and further reduce the number of abortions performed in the United States.”
The misinformation that birth control users “abort” more embryos than nonusers—or IUDs cause abortions—affects countless women trying to find the best methods of birth control to manage their health. These inaccurate beliefs underlies Strader’s refusal to provide birth control and motivate employers to make choices that run counter to their values. This is a critical time to support birth control access and prevent unintended pregnancies since abortion access is under threat.
With greater knowledge of the facts surrounding contraceptive methods, employers and other stakeholders can act with integrity and in accordance with their actual values—and women will be the beneficiaries of greater healthcare access, not less.
Sign and share Ms.’s relaunched “We Have Had Abortions” petition .. https://secure.everyaction.com/vHwGbWEOKEGn8oRohNE-EA2#! —whether you yourself have had an abortion, or simply stand in solidarity with those who have—to let the Supreme Court, Congress and the White House know: We will not give up the right to safe, legal, accessible abortion.
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