LIfe Starts At Conception? Do you believe this?

[triptothezoo]

Why is it that most women who believe life starts at conception, are or have been, or plan to, be on hormonal birth control?

You do realize that most hormonal birth controls second or third method of defense is to make the uterus enviroment hostile to an already fertilised egg, right?

Of course, once they find this out they become "Life begins at implantation!" believers. How convenient for them.

Practice what you preach .

[crittercrazy3]

Apr. 3, 2007 at 9:12 AM I belive God send you a child when he's ready to. birth control or not. and when you ARE pregnant that means he meant for it to be that way and he has put a soul into that child, yes from conception.

[srachal9930]

Apr. 3, 2007 at 9:34 AM

i believe its a perfect world when you have options. i also believe its better to have children under the right conditions and not resent those said children because you cant afford/handle them.

[C-n-Imom]

Apr. 3, 2007 at 11:05 AM

Well, of course he or she is alive at conception, sperm and eggs are also alive. However, there are so often times that a fertilised egg will not implant, conditions must be right, the fertilised egg itself must be healthy enough etc. These things all happen regardless of whether one uses hormonal birth control. I got pregnant while on the pill. The pill is supposed to prevent ovulation and barring that make the lining of the uterous too thin for implantation. The thing is, if you had enough hormonal balance to ovulate, you likely have enough hormonal balance to achieve implantation. Both my kids were concieved during the worst possible time for implantation, right before or during when I was supposed to menstruate. I don't ovulate at the correct time. Also, just because you ovulate does not mean an egg will get fertilised. The little tadpoles have a lot to go through before they make to the big kahuna and even the ones that do make it, if they are not healthy they will not fertilise that egg.

I don't sweat hormonal BC for those reasons as well as the fact that phlosophically I don't have a problem with preventing implantation. I can try to prevent fertilization and implantation, but once the little guy or gal is implanted, then it is my job to make sure I don't do anything to hurt him or her for the next 9 months.

[triptothezoo]

Apr. 3, 2007 at 12:13 PM

C, I totally get it, but you have to figure that at some point HBC WILL be the cause of a pharmacuetical abortion.  So it doesn't make sense for "Life Begins at Conception" believers to take HBC.

Both my kids were concieved during the worst possible time for implantation, right before or during when I was supposed to menstruate. I don't ovulate at the correct time.

My DD was concieved the day after my period left!  I never ovulate at the normal time either! 

(Original Poster)

[C-n-Imom]

Apr. 3, 2007 at 1:30 PM

I guess I don't consider it an abortion unless you have already succeeded in implantation. It has to already be implanted for it to qualify as an abortion in my book. Maybe that is not the Websters definition, but it works for me philosophically and that is all that matters to me. I even continued taking my pill for a month after I got pregnant with Clifford because I was not sure I was PG, I thought I had skipped a period due to the stress of getting married and moving all in one month.

I technially don't consider myself to be a life begins at conception person either, excepting the fact that as I stated earlier the zygote is alive as are eggs and sperm. I'm more of a life begins at implantation person and I base this on not just personal philosophy but the science that tells us that so many never implant even under ideal conditions ie no bc, healthy mom, healthy dad etc and that so many things can happen in those early days like the chimera effect. If life begins at conception chimeras must have two souls and I just don't think that is possible.

[lindsaynedson]

Apr. 3, 2007 at 10:31 PM you know what? i never knew that until recently. i completely believe that life starts at conception. and when snickers 21 brought out to me what BC really does, i asked my dr about it, and she admitted it, but didn't want to, you could tell. i posted a blog about it. "ob apt today"
i stopped taking the BC. i refuse to be the reason that a life is ended. if someone else is comfortable with that, good for them i guess, but it seriously is not for me. i'd rather have 1-2 more kids and let hubby get a vasectomy.

[tonyswifey]

Apr. 10, 2007 at 1:44 PM It is all about how one perceives life. I believe that "life" begins when a baby takes their first breath away from Mom's umbilical cord. Of course that is just my opinion, and everyones entitled to one.

[MomsWhoThink]

Apr. 23, 2007 at 9:45 AM I believe life starts at conception. I haven't used hormonal birth controls since I learned they are abortificants. That was approximately 5 years ago. I do agree with you though. However, I think there are a lot of women who aren't aware of this fact though.

[MemawBrie]

May. 15, 2007 at 2:15 PM

Life at conception!! Did you know God knew you while you were being formed in your mother's womb?! He knew you by name before you were ever conceived!!

[triptothezoo]

May. 16, 2007 at 8:34 AM

Life at conception!! Did you know God knew you while you were being formed in your mother's womb?! He knew you by name before you were ever conceived!!

Do you even bother to read your bible?  Or just yak, yak, yak about stuff you have no idea about? 

Twice in the bible does God mention knowing someone in the womb, but He was talking to TWO SPECIFIC PEOPLE.  The "I knew you in your mothers womb" was not about knowing everyone from conception.

(Original Poster)