Actually it's probably a good thing that there is a male birth control pill now, since there's no worries with it that the reason it's working is by preventing impregnated eggs from implanting properly the way there is with the female birth control pills.
hmmmmmm. ok.......
Um, i duno i don't think that's true.. because the pill prevents you from ovulating.. so the egg never gets in the spot where it can be impregnated. And I was reading about this, and in order to use a regular birth control pill as "emergency contraception" (to prevent an impregnated egg from attaching properly) you have to take like 6 of them a day for two or three days. So... regular birth control pills do not kill impregnated eggs.
Ahhh..it's like having sex ed! So..we can still take birth control though..right, because it doesn't kill impregnated eggs?
as far as i know... yes. But there is a chance that I might be wrong, who knows. All I know is that you CAN still get pregnant on the pill, so it DOES NOT kill impregnated eggs. It prevents ovulation. If you forget to take the pill, even one day, you can ovulate, ergo, get pregnant.
I just really doubt that SOOO many sisters around the world would be taking birth control pills if it was a true fact that it was killing impregnated eggs, which is abortion. Right? I duno, I might be wrong.. it's a conscience decision.
Actually, I'm so silly..I know how it works! It tricks your body into thinking it's pregnant so that's why you don't ovulate anymore. For the three days (?? I'm not sure exactly how many it is) that you don't take the pills a month (or you take the fake ones that are sugar pills) then your body isn't tricked anymore and you ovulate..then you go back to tricking your body.
It's seven days that you don't take the pill.
Why do you know more about this then I do!!
Lol. That's a good question. Of course I could turn it around and ask why you don't know more about this than I do.
cause she's single...as in not married
So? I was under the impression that most girls (even in the truth) start taking the pill long before they get married just to get their bodies acclimated to it.
Seriously? Most likely if they're not in the truth and are taking birth control..even if they say its for another reason..it's because they're having mad relations. But birth control can be used for acne problems and stuff like that..but it can also make you gain weight so I don't know why anyone would take it if they didn't have to/want to. Also, what's there to get acclimated to?
Well, some girls have excruciatingly painful and irregular cycles, and BC regulates them, and makes them like 99% less painful. I've known of girls in the truth who start taking a very low dosage of BC (since they don't actually need the birth control part, but they need the hormones to regulate things) as early as age 14.
it also clears up acne...
OR to use Accutane u have to be using birth contol whether ur *active* or not. They are afraid of pregnacies that will have horrible birth defects, and the lawsuits that came later.
I don't know. I just remember having this discussion with my mom about it when I was 15 or 16 and I found out that my cousin was on the pill. (She's only six months older than me.) It kind of shocked me at the time, but my mom just said that it's normal for girls to start taking the pill even before they start thinking about dating and marriage just to get used to taking it.
Interesting. I'm not sure about this whole getting used to taking it, that's kind of weird. Though, it does making things a bit convenient even if your not married because it regulates everything.
Hey, are you calling my family weird? You wouldn't be the first...
i can understand girls taking it because they have irregularity problems...but for them to take it just to get acclimated to it or to clear up acne, i think that's a bad idea. It's playing around with your hormones, which is never a good idea. It increases your chances of getting cancer and it can cause a lot of other problems. So, I don't know...to each his own, but i'd rather use neutrogena for acne then mess around with my hormones.
yeah, you guys are right. BC is ok because the egg is never fertilized. Emergency Contraceptives that cause a fertilized egg to leave the body/die are basically abortion, because the embryo is alive since it's been fertilized.
Yeah, that would be the "day after" pill. Can't these stupid people just remember to take a pill the day of..how dumb are they. If you're really that stupid you shouldn't be having relations.
think how many people have had kids by accident...i think quite a lot of people forget...and the pills have a certain amount of error, dont they?
I'm not extremely worried about it. It's just that a few years ago I was reading up on the pill and I found a question from readers in the 6/15/1989 watchtower that troubled me somewhat. After reading that I looked one of the more popular pills (Ortho-Novum) up in my dad's copy of PDR and under the clinical pharmacology section it says the following:
"Combination oral contraceptives act by suppresion 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 likelyhood of implantation)."
That last sentence has worried me since I first read it, but, like that question from readers says, it is only a secondary action and it does not actually *prevent* implantation from occuring.
yeah... i gotta look into that I guess. All I know is I do not want a kid. Heh.
i heard something on the radio about this drug they're working on that decreases the amount of cycles women have to like 3 or 4 per year... anybody else hear about that?
yeah! But technically women can do that already.. like if they skip the "sugar pills" week and just go straight to the next pack of pills, they can entirely skip their cycle. Some women do this and NEVER get their monthly fun time. I duno if this is healthy tho.
yeah sounds a little scary. actually i know someone who was doing the shot thing. it lasted like 3 or 4 months.
healthy or not, it sounds good to me
hahaha i know right.
It's not a new drug. It's been known for a long time (at least since the early '70's) that if you increase the dosage on standard birth control pills that you can entirely eliminate periods. What they're working on is getting FDA approval for this new regimen that allows women to take a higher dosage of the pill for a while so that their periods completely stop for a few months, then cycle once and repeat.
so you just get your period every 6 months then?
More like every 3 or 4 months. It's not thought to be healthy to avoid it more often than that.
hmm, and they do think its healthy to avoid it that often? It sounds like a reaaaaaaaal good idea, but it seems like it would be very unsafe
There's arguments on both sides as to whether it's more or less healthy. Personally, I think it's a real bad idea since if it fails, then you'll end up taking the pill for a long time before you notice that you're pregnant, and that would be very bad for the baby. (Of course, I do understand why women like the idea of fewer periods.)