[ Answer this question ] Want to answer more questions in the Sexual Health and Reproduction category? Maybe give some free advice about: Abortion? Dragonflymagic answered Sunday July 26 2015, 2:16 pm: No hon, the birth control pill doesnt work by aborting young fetuses.
It's actually quite ingenious how it works.
Hormonal contraceptives like the pill, patch and cervical ring all use a small amount of man-made estrogen and progestin hormones. These manmade hormones work to simulate a womans real hormones were she to become pregnant. These inhibit the body's natural cyclical hormones to prevent pregnancy. Pregnancy is prevented by a combination of factors. It depends on the type of hormonal contraceptive as to whether it just inhibits producing an egg, "Ovulating", or does more.
Hormonal contraceptives also change the cervical mucus to make it difficult for the sperm to go through the cervix and find an egg. Hormonal contraceptives can also prevent pregnancy by changing the lining of the womb so it's unlikely the fertilized egg will be implanted.
So modern technology's pill with the synthetic equivalent of those natural hormones 'trick' the body into not producing an egg. However, along with it, many women also get some of the other side effects of pregnancy, weight gain, loss of libido, tenderness in breasts, etc.
To know for sure exactly what combination of steps trigestrel uses in preventing pregnancy, I suggest asking your doctor or better yet, a pharmacist. I don't know for sure and couldn't find a pharmacist assessment of trigestrel on line.
I do know that some people have religious views against the part of a contraceptive changing the lining of the uterus so a fertilized egg can not attach to the uterus and they consider this an aborting of a fetus. Not enough time has gone by for the fertilized egg to have grown into a fetus at the point its unable to attach. Even with the pill or various other methods of birth control, there is a small percentage of failure rates. I got pregnant while using a diaphragm and spermicide. If a child is meant to be born, I believe it will happen, no matter what. I thought 2 kids was enough. The oldest child told me she was praying for a baby brother. I got pregnant and she got another sister who is very much loved and wanted...it was merely a financial reason we didn't want a lot more kids. Once a couple has had all the kids they want, the marriage is stable and they'll remain together for life, I see no reason why the husband couldn't get a vasectomy or the women, her tubes tied so they can't produce another pregnancy. then no birth control is needed and one can't become pregnant. [ Dragonflymagic's advice column | Ask Dragonflymagic A Question ]
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