While watching a little TV and working on a paper, a commercial for "Plan B" came on the TV. It's claims were amazing. If your birth control failed you - condom broke, forgot to take a pill, or whatever else - just take some "Plan B."
And, don't worry, it will not cause an abortion the commercial assures you.
Unless, of course, you bother to read the fine print, and you happen to believe that human life begins at the moment of conception - the moment the embryo has all the chromosomes necessary to be identified as human.
Read for yourself from their "Patient Pamphlet" available here, or just take my word for it.
The pamphlet states, "Plan B® contains a dose of the hormone levonorgestrel that is higher than in a single birth control pill. Levonorgestrel has been used in birth control pills for over 35 years. Plan B® works like a birth control pill to prevent pregnancy mainly by stopping the release of an egg from the ovary. It is possible that Plan B® may also work by preventing fertilization of an egg (the uniting of sperm with the egg) or by preventing attachment (implantation) to the uterus (womb), which usually occurs beginning 7 days after release of an egg from the ovary. Plan B® will not do anything to a fertilized egg already attached to the uterus. The pregnancy will continue."
Did you catch that? Plan B has redefined pregnancy. For them, a woman is not pregnant from the moment of conception but from the moment of implantation. Therefore, their drug does not cause an abortion. If abortion only means killing an embryo after it is implanted, they are accurate. However, if abortion includes killing an embryo before it is implanted, Plan B does cause abortion. It is all a matter of who gets to define the terms.
Christians know and DNA evidence confirms that human life begins at conception.
Plan B does not call what their drug does "abortion."
Abortion or not, it is still murder.
Interestingly enough, virtually all birth control pills on the market do the same thing from time-to-time. While it is not the first-line defense, the pill does prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg - a boy or a girl whom God allowed to be brought into being - if only for a few days before the drug takes the life we had thought it was impossible for the pill to take.
How do you feel about "PlanB" now? How about the pill?
Can we keep on taking the pill as Christian couples on the one hand while scolding Obama for allowing experimentation with human embryos on the other?
Discuss.
2 comments:
Dear Sir, you are no "wannabe theologian" you are a theologian par excellance. Stick with the stuff. From another quasi theologian.
I'm glad you enjoyed the post. I would argue that I'm still in the wannabe stage, but I do hope my posts prove beneficial from time to time. Thanks.
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