That's great, Russ <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Some people either don't want to know or don't want to upset people i.e. my post on this to a group once was rejected incase it upset women on the pill.

It's tough. I don't want to upset women, but if they don't know the truth, they can't make an informed decision.

It's amazing in the arena of pro-life how ignorant the general public are about the unborn child and believe everything they are told i.e there is no life pre-implantation. That is not correct. New life begins at conception - that is scientific fact - it starts to grow and develop immediately as it travels down to the womb and then implants.

Birth control pills work by

1. Preventing ovulation
2. Preventing conception if ovulation happens
3. Preventing implantation if conception occurs.

There is some dispute over when/if number 3 happens. some pills like the combined oral contraceptive pill are thought to be very good at preventing ovulation, so it's thought that IF implantation is prevented, it's very seldomly i.e once in eight years on the pill. Others like the mini-pill which do not reliably prevent conception can abort up to 40% of the time.

This happens by making the womb hostile to the zygote. Some manufacturers do state on the boxes that the pills can prevent implantation of a "fertilized egg". I don't know if all do. It isn't exactly a fertilized egg, though, as by the time it comes to the womb, it's developed into something else.

The same goes on with abortion. They often tell women it's "Product of conception" , where as by six weeks, when most abortions happen, the baby has a beating heart and limbs. Also they don't always talk of the risks, physical and mental.

Women who chose to end their pregnancies should be fully informed, but sadly that is often not the case.