“Absolutely no hormones, and we don’t have to worry about pregnancy for another 10 years!” I came in late to a conversation in which a fellow theology master’s student was extolling the benefits of her newly-placed copper IUD. Alarm bells rang in my head. Don’t IUDs prevent implantation? I thought to myself. In the next breath she laid that concern to rest, reassuring us all that her doctor had been clear: IUDs are not abortifacient.
I didn’t question her at the time, assuming I had somehow been mistaken. After all, she was an intelligent, passionately prolife woman pursuing a master’s degree. Surely she had done her homework.
This story came back to me as I was researching my upcoming book, Reclaiming Motherhood from a Culture Gone Mad. Chapter Four provides an in-depth look at the devastating effects of contraceptives on women’s health, societal status, and marriages. In reviewing the research, I was disturbed anew. Not only was I right about IUD’s “preventing” pregnancy through early automatic abortion, this is an integral mechanism of all hormonal contraceptives as well.
Barrier methods such as diaphragms, condoms, and even spermicides work solely to prevent conception. When they fail, conception occurs and, because they have not actively worked to undermine the uterine environment, there is no artificially-created barrier to implantation that causes early miscarriage.
The same cannot be said for the various iterations of “the pill,” “the patch,” “the ring,” the monthly injection Depo Provera, or IUDs hormonal and nonhormonal. For example, Paragard is a hormone-free IUD made from copper which is toxic to sperm and eggs. It also prevents implantation, as disclosed on their website.
Rather than preventing conception, virtually every form of hormonal contraception “prevents pregnancy” by creating conditions within a woman’s body that cause early miscarriage. Can we call this abortion? After all, the pill or shot was taken prior to conception, and the conceived life ends without the mother’s awareness. Pregnancy cannot even be detected until after implantation.
Sadly, the answer is yes. Intentionally or not, these medications function not only by preventing conception, but by ensuring that conceived life cannot continue. It is a “fail-safe,” a kind of pre-abortion ensuring that if conception happens, the mother doesn’t even know about it.
Full story at Faith and Bioethics.
A theology master’s student approves of contraceptive IUDs in her own body?
What the hell school is she getting a degree from? LMU?
Lol, probably. She’s definitely not going to a Newman Guide college that’s for sure.
Yes. LMU.
IUD’s can cause severe infections, too. When a relative of mine was much younger and still alive, she got an IUD and got a very bad infection. She asked the doctor if the IUD was causing it several times, and he said, “No”. Although she was not Catholic, she finally went to the Catholic doctor her family used when she was younger. He did not give out any contraceptives. He told her the IUD was causing her infection, took it out and the infection cleared up completely.
Some doctors lie.
“Some doctors lie.”
Anne TE, as usual, you are too kind.
Much of the medical profession lies now. They lie about LGBT, they lie about Covid, they lie about abortion, they lie about Biden being mentally well, they lie about Trump being derranged, they lie about ivermectin. they lie.
Too bad the author doesn’t know how birth control pills work. They work by preventing ovulation. No ovulation, no fertilization. The author makes a fool of themselves by demonstrating such ignorance.
“Too bad the author doesn’t know how birth control pills work. They work by preventing ovulation.”….what affect do they have on the lining of the uterus?
Contraception is intrinsically evil, but that’s like saying that it’s always wrong to put a battery in the wrong way. It’s not the worst thing in the world to do. If your marriage would be strained by having kids, then for the good of the marriage you shouldn’t have kids. That girl in the class who got the IUD didn’t want kids for ten years. I mean, she’s in school and that’s expensive and her husband and she might just have been starting out in life. Sometimes people need some slack or need a break. That’s called being pastoral. Maybe you could call it chill pill theology. If more people would take a chill pill we’d all be happier and get along better. Communion is supposed to be a chill pill, kind of, but too many people treat Communion like it’s red pilling but only the right people get to take the red pill. So you have red pill versus blue pill, but we should all just chill.
The Matrix is sent to the Bullshed