Life is so beautiful, so magical. It is hard to believe that it begins with the act of one man and one woman coming together in the ultimate show of love! When the sperm and egg unite to create a new human being something greater than words can express takes place.
Unfortunately we have lost sight of this beautiful act. With the advent of contraceptives, we mercilessly kill our preborn children before they have a chance to even start their long journey in life. But do not take my word for it. See for yourself how contraception manufacturers and scientist have twisted words over the years to fit their own agendas.
Prior to the mid-1960s, medical personnel appear to have had at least some belief in their Hippocratic Oath of “do no harm.” At least scientist and doctors saw “the instant of fertilization” as paramount to the beginning of life. The U.S Department of Health Education and Welfare published the following in their Public Health Service leaflet No. 1066 in 1963:
“All the measures which impair the viability of the zygote at any time between the instant of fertilization and the completing of labor constitute, in the strict sense procedures for inducing abortion.”
Clearly health workers viewed newly created humans, fertilized eggs as they are called today, worthy of our attention and care. However, this did not last long. Just as everything else in the psychedelic 60s broke every fad, manner and rule, so too did doctors break their oath to the most innocent of humans.
In 1965 the American Academy of Obstetrics and Gynecology redefined pregnancy by saying, “Conception is the implantation of a fertilized ovum.” They published this quandary of a statement in their Terminology Bulletin No. 1, “Terms Used in Reference to the Fetus.” ACOG once again “clarified” their warped idea of pregnancy by changing the definition in 1972 to, “Conception is the implantation of the blastocyst.” A truly impersonalizing and dehumanizing definition, this head-scratcher was published in the Obstretric-Gynecologic Terminology handbook, ‘Gametogenesis and Fertilization.’
What is a blastocyst? The most common definition I found was “a hollow ball of cells filled with fluid.” This, however, is just another attempt to completely dehumanize newly created life!
With this new definition of pregnancy, the makers of oral contraceptives were free to create their pills with an eye to not only preventing ovulation and thickening cervical mucus, but also changing the lining of the uterus. The last mechanism - changing the lining of the uterus - makes it difficult, if not impossible, for a preborn child to implant in the womb. When he cannot implant in the womb, he is denied necessary nourishment and is expelled from the body during menstruation.
This is a chemical abortion!
Oral contraceptives recognize this third mechanism in their own full-patient prescribing information. They do not advertise this point openly, but they have gone on record for noting the abortifacient properties of the pill. As quoted in the booklet ‘Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions?’ by Randy Alcorn, a representative of the Ortho-McNeil said, “If you end up with a fertilized egg, [the baby boy or girl] won’t implant and grow because of the less hospitable endometrium.”
The makers of oral contraceptives and ACOG have known for decades that life begins at conception. They have even gone out of their way to change the definition of pregnancy just to legitimize their work. If they can see that when life begins, why can’t the rest of society? Why don’t we stand up to the pressures of pharmaceuticals and ACOG and demand that they treat life, all life from creation to natural death, with more dignity and respect?