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Re: Santorum campaign suggests Mitt Romney may have done deal to make Ron Paul his running mate *** EDITED ***

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Decomp,

"When 'The Pill' is taken daily, there is no ovulation. No ovulation means no egg. No egg means no fertilization. No fertilization means no baby."

When I was younger my world was black & white.
As time has passed my world has more grey.

Many women get pregnant & don't even know it because for whatever reason the egg doesn't stay attached & it expels early on. This has occured to my neice 4 times, (she was trying to get pregnant & tested herself early to find out so she knew she WAS pregnant)She is finally holding her second child & expecting him next month.

How could she get pregnant while on birth control pills?

By Courtney Humphries
May 17, 2010

Q. I got pregnant while on birth control pills — how could that happen?

A. The birth control pill turns 50 this month, and although it’s famous enough to simply be called “the pill,’’ there are still misunderstandings about it. Many women have heard that the pill is 99 percent effective, but they assume that the reason it doesn’t achieve a perfect score is because women skip pills or don’t take them at the right time. In fact, says Robert Barbieri, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, birth control pills “are FDA tested in general to achieve a 99 percent success rate with very good use.

So we’re using a medication that tends to have failure of at least one in 100 even if it’s used perfectly.’’ In such cases, the reason for the failure is that the hormone levels are kept low enough to reduce side effects like blood clots, while slightly sacrificing effectiveness. 

For a given individual, it’s difficult to know why her birth control might have failed. Skipping pills is certainly a common reason. But some people also metabolize the pill more quickly than others, which results in the medication being cleared more quickly from the body. Certain medications, particularly the tuberculosis-treatment drug rifampin, can potentially interfere with pill metabolism.

Body weight could also have an effect. Barbieri says that birth control pills are not tested on women who are obese, and some observational studies of women taking the pill have detected a slightly higher failure rate in those women.

Women who have experienced pill failure might benefit from newer types of pills that require spending fewer days off hormones than the typical seven days. Barbieri says that women who miss pills often do so at the beginning of a cycle, which can be a problem when they have already spent a full week without hormones. If you’re not willing to live with that 1 percent chance of pregnancy, he recommends using condoms in addition to the pill, or choosing an IUD, which has a failure rate as low as 0.1 percent.

© Copyright 2010 Globe Newspaper Company.
http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2010/05/17/how_could_she_get_pregnant_while_on_birth_control_pills/




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Re: Santorum campaign suggests Mitt Romney may have done deal to make Ron Paul his running mate *** EDITED ***
By: Decomposed in ROUND
Fri, 24 Feb 12 10:32 PM 		Msg. 39140 of 45651

clo,

I *do* wish you'd explain the comfort you find in Ron Paul's words.

What I mean by that is that the morning after pill does prevent zygotes from attaching themselves to the uterine wall. They then die. The pills don't cause ABORTION, per se, but only because abortion, by definition, is killing and removing an ATTACHED baby.

Where's the comfort in that?

Attachment is meaningless from an ethical perspective. It isn't what makes a baby a baby. Fertilization is.

If the detached zygote were removed and inserted into a different woman's uterus, the same baby would result.

So... why would a SINCERE woman be happy Ron Paul stated that the pill doesn't ABORT anything? He was pretty much just scoring an easy debate point by noting that Newt Gingrich had used an incorrect medical term to describe what the pill does.

Let's not forget that, when he said this, Ron Paul was on stage debating a non-doctor on a medical issue. I'm sure Ron was only too happy, as an OB-GYN, to show Newt up by pointoug out that Newt had strayed into an area where he had no competence. In a debate, you WANT to embarrass your opponent when you get the chance.

But, the pill is a baby killer. There's no denying that. It kills babies in their earliest stages. Neither Ron Paul nor anyone else who actually knows what he's talking about ever says otherwise.

Hormonally, it may resemble 'The Pill.' But in what it does, there's no comparison. When 'The Pill' is taken daily, there is no ovulation. No ovulation means no egg. No egg means no fertilization. No fertilization means no baby.

The morning after pill, on the other hand, is used when there may already be a baby. If there is, it kills it.

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