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Do we have different ideas on the definition of "abortion"?

Birth control pills and morning after pills do not dispose of a blastocyst (the union of a sperm and egg), and are therefore considered pregnancy prevention (that is, they do not allow the sperm and egg to meet, so NOTHING DIES). However, many Christians insist this is abortion, and I do not understand why this is considered sane thinking when it is scientifically unsound.

Defend yourselves!

And for a short poll, if you believe birth control is abortion, do you also deny evolution?

Update:

GAH!!

It IS NOT A DEVELOPING EMBRYO!

None of you are answering the question. Proving stupidity. Answer the question and prove me wrong. But answer it in a world that is based in reality. Not just some made up propaganda crap

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  • 9 years ago
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    Murder

  • 9 years ago

    The definition of abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. I am a Christian and I believe that abortion is wrong. If there is no pregnancy, there is no abortion, simple as. As a Christian, however, I believe that there should be no sex before marriage. If I was married I think I would use contraception but perhaps not the morning after pill. This is not for any real justifiable reason, its just one of those things and, if questioned as to why this was, I admit I would not be able to provide an answer and I would not tell anyone else not to use it.

    I also feel I should tackle the evolution thing here but I will not go into great depth. Christians who say evolution happened really annoy me. The bible is quite clear in the fact that God created the world in six days. To believe in evolution is to discredit the very beginning of the bible, if you discredit the start then it makes it harder for non-believers to believe the bible if they think the beginning is wrong. Believing in evolution is dangerous. As you may of guessed I am a creationist. Does this make me unscientific? Not at all, I have just seen evidence in a different way to you. Look at this website and you'll see I am scientific as this is what I believe. www.answersingenesis.org

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    I do know I've mastered the potential to stroll, speak and browse. There may be nothing so much left to be taught in these fields, and i can do all of it with whole ease. Does not imply I under no circumstances stub my toe, slur a couple of words, or detect a sentence from time to time, however I've reached a point where it can be fully causal. I am not an olympic sprinter, or a public speaker, or a pace reader -- those are all utterly separate competencies -- but what I realized is plenty to get by way of existence. I on no account fail to remember that the martial arts are called an art, whether or not or now not that is an japanese interpretation, but within the West this does have a reason. An artwork could not be some thing you ideal. Tune, painting and sculpting all have near limitless potential, but phases of development that you'd have got to "master" to get higher. A black belt, as we have explained earlier than on right here, is ready having a organization working out of the basics, or "All normal actions and systems, will also be applied with increased drive and correct utility in common mixture." The keyword phrases here could be "all general actions and systems" and "accelerated force and right utility". I would say there's a mastery of having learned the standards and know the way to put them to make use of, simply no longer some thing extra from the fundamentals. I consider humans go a bit of too a long way with the word, utilizing it most likely erroneously, however the intent of without difficulty and casually using what you've got discovered is what they are all implying. As for the martial arts as a whole, that I feel is impossible, in particular as an artwork.

  • .
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Birth control is not abortion, though some people use abortion primarily for birth control.

    Abortion is the willful selfish killing (murder) of a fertilized egg in the womb. Whether the egg has implanted or not (or miscarries) is supposed to be up to God. If we have invented any method to stop a pregnancy from continuing, I would consider that abortion, including the various "morning after" or "week after" pills, even if based upon an over-dosage of traditional hormone birth control pills.

  • 9 years ago

    Your information is incomplete. Most so-called contraceptives contain a primary drug that is intended to prevent ovulation, plus a back-up drug that prevents implantation of the developing embryo if the primary drug fails, thereby causing an early abortion.

  • It's astonishing how many people conflate the morning after pill with the abortion pill, RU-486. But then again, it's easier to not educate yourself about the subject. That would take too much mental exercise.

  • Owl
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    No one claims not allowing egg and sperm to meet is abortion; the controversy is over whether or not one of the modes of hormonal contraception is to prevent implantation should egg and sperm happen to meet.

    "Combination oral contraceptives act by suppression of gonadotropins. Although the primary mechanism of this action is inhibition of ovulation, other alterations include changes in the cervical mucus (which increase the difficulty of sperm entry into the uterus) and the endometrium (which reduce the likelihood of implantation)."

    http://www.myortho360.com/sites/default/files/asse...

    "Labels inside every box of morning-after pills, drugs widely used to prevent pregnancy after sex, say they may work by blocking fertilized eggs from implanting in a woman’s uterus. Respected medical authorities, including the National Institutes of Health and the Mayo Clinic, have said the same thing on their Web sites."

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/health/research/...

  • 9 years ago

    If what you say is true, I agree with you. I thought the morning after pill killed an embryo, but I could be mistaken.

    Abortion is wrong, and yes, I deny evolution.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    the "morning after" pill does KILL after conception.... so it is an abortion..... EVERY abortion for convenience is a premeditated murder.... murder is the premeditated killing of a human being without just cause..... abortion for convenience is any abortion done with out a clear medical reason...... and that includes rape and incest.... because in both cases the child conceived is an innocent victim of a criminal act....and the killing of that child is IN NO WAY medically justifiable.....

    what does birth control, and/or abortion, have to do with evolution ?

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Standard answer to this one cos I'm sick of it...

    *******************Ignore what doesn’t pertain to you*******************

    EVERYONE is PRO-life... excepting maybe psychopaths.

    I am PRO choice and you are ANTI choice... let's call it what it is...

    Not some emotive term denigrating people who believe in freedom of choice.

    It sounds very much like you're another willing tool of the religious right, driven by misogynistic wrinkled old men.

    The modus operandi of ANTI choicers is to pick on the weak and vulnerable.

    The ANTI choicers' main tools of trade are FEAR, GUILT, lies and hypocrisy.

    I am against abortion BUT

    1. I am a man; I should have NO say.

    2. I am NOT that girl; I should have NO say.

    I'm pro-choice, not pro-abortion…

    Religion needs to stay out of a woman's vagina; it has no business there.

    Only the terminally gullible believe that making abortion illegal makes it stop... it just drives it underground and kills more women.

    There is nothing I can think of more barbaric than forcing a girl-woman to gestate unwillingly.

    AND…

    IF men could become pregnant, abortion would NOT be an issue and you know it.

    Tony Abbott (Australian Catholic sexist politician): Abortion is the easy way out.

    Yeah… right, Tony.

    http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/15384367/...

    Addendum: “Our tax dollars already go into welfare, child protection programs, and abuse counseling for underprivileged children.

    These are necessary programs, but wouldn't be great if they could be less necessary? If more children were wanted and were born to people who were emotionally prepared to be parents these and other programs would not be as flooded as they currently are by neglected, unloved children.

    I'd rather pay for someone's abortion, than pay for 18 years of child care.

    Giving women access to reproductive health choices, including birth control and elective abortion means healthier, happier families, and less strain on the tax payer.”

    ~

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    The termination of a developing embryo

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