Originally Posted by Tom
Originally Posted by Newman
I got ya. Thanks. I agree with you that it is too broad to say that 50 years ago, Catholics and Protestants stood arm in arm against contraception. Maybe 80 years ago that was the case, (and certainly before then all the way back to the Reformation) but between 1930 and 1960 it seems Protestant Churches and Pastors became ever increasingly accepting of barrier methods and the divide grew pretty significantly. I've never heard before what you said about somewhat universal opposition to abortifacients at the time. As I say, that's pretty interesting to me, especially since the pill is an abortifacient and yet is pretty widely accepted by Protetants today, I think. I don't know if there were any Protestant objections to the pill along those lines 30 or 40 years ago. Probably not, would be my guess.

Unless I have been told wrong by the medical community, the pill can come as a abortifacient, or non-abortifacient.

Tom

There are actually no birth control pills that can guarantee not to be an abortifacient. The way birth control pills work is by setting up a gauntlet to prevent pregnancies. The combination of progestogen and estrogen works to suppress the production of egg cells, then to change the mucus in the cervex to make it difficult for sperm to reach the egg, and then, if those two fail, the uteral wall linings are suppressed from developing so that a fertilized egg can find purchase in it. None of these measures alone can fully assure a prevention of pregnancy and figures vary as to how many eggs are expressed in spite of the pill and become fertilized only to die for lack of assylum.

Last edited by via_dolorosa; Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:55 PM.
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