Yes the title sounds like madness at first, but apparently it’s the latest trend among conservative instagrammers and I’m not on tiktok, so it must be much worse.
The claim is that the anti-baby pill would ensure that fertilization occurs and then the embryo is removed from the body in a hemorrhage.
It’s complete madness but today I came across the second post like this and please please please. Never take medical advice from instagram or tiktok. It’s clear that conservatives are spreading their ideologies extremely on these platforms at the moment and want to increase the birth rate by any means necessary.
If you have any questions, please talk to your doctors about the different options for contraception or if you are looking for information on the internet, please go to people like Dr. Fran who is actually a gynecologist and not to some conservative wellness influencers.
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Someone I went to school with told me this exact thing 30 years ago. She belonged to a Talibangelical church and that’s precisely what they are taught. It’s all in keeping with the movement to drive women back into the home and ban contraception.
They were saying this when I was in youth group 25-30 years ago. Extremely grateful that I have gotten out and deconstructed
Thank you for reminding me to take my birth control.
I was raised evangelical and left the church in my early 20s-dude I briefly dated in religious college years ago said this to me and I broke up with him because of it. It’s a long held belief in that community.
The used this argument when they made birth control free in the ACA bill. Didn’t fly then but I worry about the current environment.
If you’ve ever heard of the Duggars, you know this lie has been around for a long time.
Yeah, I know many people whose mom was on the pill. So no.
This isn’t the latest trend, it’s always been stewing in the background of the people who are anti-abortion.
My honest response to that information: good.
Got told this lie in Catholic school many years ago.
This belief is why I think algorythmic social media is largely populated by morons.
It is on the label for hormonal birth control that it may prevent implantation since the hormonal environment would not have the uterine wall in a good state to allow a fertilized egg to implant. The language has been on hormonal birth control labels for a long time and I don’t know if there has been much research to show whether it actually is capable of preventing pregnancy in this way. The primary method hormonal birth control prevents pregnancy is through preventing ovulation. For it to prevent implantation it would have to have failed to prevent ovulation. Studying whether a birth control regime that failed at its primary method succeeds in this back up way would be extremely difficult.
They are DESPERATE to make birth control illegal.
This was the natural logical progression in banning abortions and many people warned that this is exactly what would happen.
An egg can be fertilized on birth control, and the birth control stops it from implanting on the uterus effectively. So for those who consider life to start at conception, they would logically be against birth control and want it banned.
This is what happens when anti-science faith based opinions are allowed to impact legislation. It doesn’t just stop at the first change. Those changes just pave the way for more extreme changes based on the new precedent.
What nonsense they peddle.
Someone who knows their shit more than me please correct me.
But isn’t this an exaggerated truth about hormonal BC? That is, the primary mechanism is to prevent ovulation. But a secondary mechanism of the pill is to make the uterine lining thin and make implantation difficult/impossible, then the fertilized egg is shed during the period.
Disclaimer, I’m extremely pro-choice and roll my eyes whenever I hear conservatives bring this up
This has absolutely been their belief for decades, it’s just getting a platform more because of TikTok and Insta, unfortunately.
I remember explaining to my former gyno (when trying to convince her to approve sterilization after my red state made abortion illegal) that religious conservatives will go for my form of BC next because they think it’s an abortifacient. She scoffed and said it’s not, and I told her I know it’s not, but it doesn’t matter what the science says, it’s what the legislators believe. Lo and behold, some of my state legislators have been spreading disinfo that my preferred BC (Depo Provera) is an abortifacient (along with IUDs).
I ended up going to a different, way better gyno to get my sterilization done, but I hate when people like me who were raised in (and later broke off from) a hyper-conservative & religious environment and know the christian nationalist mindset and goals are dismissed as hysterical for warning folks who claim “that will never happen”. Talk to your doctor and don’t rely on the internet, but also drop doctors who are dismissive and disrespectful (and head over to the r/childfree sub for a list of doctors in your area if you want sterilization).
Well, like one of the comments said, it’s my understanding that sometimes hormonal birth control doesn’t prevent an egg from getting fertilized, but it does prevent it from implanting. However, you’d have to think that removal of a fertilized egg with an abortion – and since you’re not even pregnant before the egg implants, it seems really disingenuous at best to call that an abortion. So yeah, I guess the short version is that’s a bunch of crap made to stop women from taking birth control.
Tangent: We’ve been saying for decades that once they made inroads into removing abortion access that they would go after birth control too. Now we’re seeing that this is the case, despite the fact that I’ve been told that was paranoid. I don’t think you actually can be too vigilant at this point.
There is no pregnancy without irresponsible semen release. A woman can have one baby in a year, a man can have thousands. Seems like it’s time for a solution to control the semen, not the woman✂️✂️✂️✂️
Yeah my catholic school said this too. Plan B causes abortions. Birth control is bad because it confuses your body and doesn’t allow it to act naturally.
No, it prevents me from having a child I don’t want and cannot care for.
The reason they think birth control causes abortions is because it can prevent a fertilised egg from implanting, and since cons tend to believe that human life begins at fertilisation, they call this contraceptive mechanism an abortion.
In medicine, a pregnancy does not occur until implantation. And aborting an implanted embryo is not the normal mechanism by which contraception prevents pregnancy. So there is no pregnancy to abort, medically speaking. But that doesn’t stop cons from using inflammatory language to suit their purposes.
> anti-baby pill
German?
I attended Catholic schools my whole life until college and my Senior year in high school I had to give a presentation to the class on how hormonal birth control of all kinds, but specifically the pill, was an “abortifacient.”
As an adult it infuriates me that school felt this was appropriate. I have some anger at my parents as well for allowing it to happen, but my mother says she really didn’t know and thought that was the truth.
Edit to add: I graduated HS in 2010
Just start commenting on all these posts “Brought to you by the same people who told us nobody gets pregnant from a ‘legitimate rape’ and that ectopic pregnancies can be re-implanted in the uterus.”
Even for those who are trying to achieve pregnancy, over half of all conceptions fail to implant for whatever reason, so you cannot say that any form of birth control has altered the possibility of any fertilized egg failing to take root in the endometrial lining. Spontaneous abortion is as natural as pregnancy.
It just proves that there is no logic behind these “pro life” ideals. Logically, if someone was anti abortion, it would make sense to promote access to birth control. The best way to decrease abortion rates would be increased birth control and healthcare access, childcare assistance, and more WIC. But that isn’t what they want. They want control over women.
It’s amazing how fucking stupid these people are
Actually, isn’t this ‘belief’ the core reason why Conservative Evangelical Groupies have always been against the Pill? They preach birth control kills the babies not prevent the babies.
Science is important, People!!!
It’s more lies and disinformation from the tradcons, laying the groundwork for the banning of contraception to further control women’s bodies.
Hard to know how to counteract lies as thanks to these people, facts and science have lost their power. Kids are dying of measles and they still peddle anti vax garbage. Their own kids can die and they will still claim they were right.
Same crap they’ve been doing for decades.
Oh, this bs has been part of the conservative/evangelical canon for many decades. They teach that any birth control that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting is an abortifacient. With sexual education having been eliminated from schools, they’re counting on ignorance to prevail so women abandon birth control.
They taught this in my Catholic school religion classes circa 2015. Some real misinformation