I will add, because this is also a myth that’s getting traction, that there’s no reason to believe that female-controlled hormonal contraception works by killing fertilized eggs. It works by suppressing ovulation, and research testing if it’s possible that emergency contraception has a “secondary” effect of killing fertilized eggs shows that it does not. The fact of the matter is that fertilized eggs die on their own about half the time, and so a woman on the pill is actually going to lose far fewer fertilized eggs than a woman not on the pill, since she has few, and often no, fertilized eggs in her system ever at all. If you really cared about fertilized eggs and their deaths, you would want all women to be on the pill.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:51:54 +0000
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