Isn't the contraceptive pill, morning after pill and abortion all the same thing? Destruction of a life? Just asking...
I'm not looking to start a fight or upset anyone, I'm just interested in your view.
Do you feel they are all the same or different?
As a catholic I think they are all the same and so are condoms.
21 Answers to "Isn't the contraceptive pill, morning after pill and abortion all the same thing? Destruction of a life? Just asking..."
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Thinking they are all the same is denying scientific fact. The contraceptive pill, the morning after pill and a condom all do the same thing; PREVENT the creation of life in the first place. There is no destruction of life if it doesn't exist. Please don't interpret my response to mean that I don't think that the life that is created by sex is invaluable. But the scientific reality is that if the egg and the ***** never come into contact, life cannot be created. These stories you hear about the contraceptive or morning after pill killing tiny fetuses is perpetuated by people that have never opened a biology book and learn all their science from the pulpit. These are not my opinions, but absolute facts that have been proven by real scientists over and over for at least a century.
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There are certain pills (the morning after and some kinds of birth control) that will destroy an egg that's been fertilized. But as for condoms, and the birth control pills that don't destroy a fertilized egg, then no. It's just like choosing not to have sex, or choosing to get your tubes tied. You're not destroying a life, because no life exists for you to destroy. You're just making sure you don't accidentally create one.
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Very well said, I enjoyed your view very well explained.
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Nope.
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If you are just asking the question and not trying to start an argument I assume you won't be arguing with anyone's opinions, which is cool.
I don't consider any of it destroying life. Before the zygote starts to grow it's merely a cluster of cells with the potential to become a living being. At the point that contraception is being used to prevent egg and sp*rm from uniting, it's not even that.
Having a child that you can't support, that you resent and or abuse---now THAT'S destroying a life, imo.Like (2)
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No I won't be arguing Just interested in people's views and thoughts Thankyou for yours I believe that in listening to others in an intelligent nice way not through arguments we can learn different views and perhaps adapt some of them
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Absolutely not! Not even close.....as a bitter ex-Catholic, I say that these are just the kinds of false comparisons that they're always shoving down people's throats to rationalize their inane, medieval dogma. Contraception is just that - - prevention of conception in the first place. How can you call that taking a life that isn't being created in the first place? The morning after pill, I suppose, if you were really hell bent on having a surprise pregnancy, you could say was taking a life. Then again, that would assume you knew for certain that you actually WERE pregnant from the night before, and if you were that certain you were going to wind up pregnant, then why in the he1l wouldn't you have used contraception in the first place??? It's for women who make a mistake with their contraception, or succumb to simple passion and human frailty, or are rape victims, and choose to decide for themselves whether to let a single unintended incident determine the course of their life for the next 20 years, not to mention the course of a possible child's life, rather than a bunch of celibate old crones who have a documented, long standing record of misogyny, anti-semitism, and a pronounced preference for the interests of pedophiles over the welfare of children. Interesting that those who insist every woman who has any form of sex, regardless of how or even if it was her choice, bear the child, when they stand ready to do everything in their power to protect priests who rape and molest children.
As for abortion, that's another matter. Yes, it is taking a life. No, I would not be party to an abortion or counsel anyone to have one. But I am pro-choice; the only sane approach, in my opinion, is for that terrible decision to rest with the person who's going to have to live with it.Like (2)
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No, they're all different.
How is a condom destruction of a life?Like (2)
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Essentially depending on your definition of when a fetus is in fact a fetus.
But a contraceptive pill is in no way the destruction of life. It is the prevention of a life.Like (2)
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or u could wait until they are 18 and dump flaming napalm on em
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I think it's the destruction of the potential for life (with the exception of abortion, which I disagree - to an extent - with), but the potential for life and life itself are very different things, in my opinion :)
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I'm leaving this one alone, I'm not up for a religious debate right now. Thanks for the 5 points though.
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So by your definition when I swallow I am also murdering billions of babies?
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Not even close. You do have a bunch of great answers here already.
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don't forget about ************
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Don't worry about condom discussions.
Natural Selection will end that discussion eventually.Like (1)
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How does that work? Surely the one thing you can be sure about people who don't use condoms is they're likely to have a lot of offspring...Like (1)
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Well being Catholic I know that it would be asking too much for you to have even a elementary understanding of Biology, but don't Fret, several congressmen on the Science and Technology committee also had a hard time understanding reproductive biology so you are in good company. But just so we can be clear the contraceptive pill is not the destruction of live, because the egg has not been fertilized... why because there is no egg being released from the fallopian tube to become a zygote. Also if one is using a condom then the egg is not being fertilized because the ***** is trapped in the condom. So unless you believe that a woman is committing murder by having a period and a man by ************, this seems like a rather silly question.
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Fair enough
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Technically no. The latter two you could say where, but for this discussion ba
sed purely on definition, contraceptives work by preventing life. Not destroying them. Like (1)
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A life would have to be created, in order to be destroyed. Abortion is the only one that is destruction of life.
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Depends on how you define life. The pill keeps a woman from ovulating. The morning after pill keeps the fertilized egg from attaching, abortion removes the fetus once it has attached.
Either way, life does not equal humanity. Ending life is not the issue, we kill bugs every time we drive down the road. The question is, when is the destruction of humanity. In my mind, humanity begins at birth. I am perfectly fine with others definitions of once the fetus can live outside the womb (so 5th month), but either way, to me a fertilized egg is NOT a human.Like (1)
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Another no.
Preventing conception is quite different from an abortion.Like (1)
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Posted by Wolfpeen Mar 13th, 2013 at 8:30PM
Contraceptive pill, no. It prevents ovulation. No ovulation, no CHANCE of conceiving. Morning after pill, maybe. Depends on if you conceived which you will never know. Abortion, yes. That fetus has a soul. Condoms are a sin in my opinion because there is a passage in the Bible which states; "better to plant your seed in the belly of a ***** than spill it on the ground." (Or words to that effect). Where does the condom go after it is used? Trashcan or toilet..
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Reply by Brokencloud Mar 13th, 2013 at 8:41PM
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