BIRTH CONTROL PILLS AND IUD's...
SECRET KILLERS of UNBORN CHILDREN

If you conceive a child...
Whether it lives, dies or is aborted...
You are responsible for that child, and it's offsprings...
For six generations, that is the Law, there is is no such thing as death.
Young people, be careful not to conceive a life in lust, they are yours forever.
Source: Oahspe Bible

Baby Angel

Summary of the article below. Most birth control pills on the market have anywhere from four to ten percent chance of allowing "breakthrough" ovulation. This means that women using these pills have a four to ten percent chance of becoming pregnant and aborting their babies without even knowing it.

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The Physicians Desk Reference a variety of sources of information — all very specifically state what these oral contraceptives do.

They are indicated only for the prevention of pregnancy. However there are other mechanisms of how the birth control pills work... they are quite well established and they have been known for years.

The most commonly portrayed method is that birth control pills inhibit ovulation. So if you don't have a viable egg being produced, you're not going to get pregnant — this action is certainly a type of contraception.

However, when that fails, and it does fail, the "back-up mechanisms" by which pregnancies are avoided come into play.

The "back-up mechanism" changes the woman's body in such a way that if there is a new life, that tiny human loses the ability to implant, grow and be nourished by the mother and starves to death.

"What we are learning here is that the developing human child, created as Christians testify in the image and likeness of God, is in effect left homeless, not being able to implant in the uterus and is thus left to die an ignoble and secret death."

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The New Abortionists:
Chemical Abortion In Contemporary Culture
http://www.vitalsignsministries.org/vsmnewabort.html

An Interview with Dr. Thomas Hilgers & Larry Frieders.

The following is a frank and provocative discussion of one of the most critically important sanctity-of-life issues in contemporary culture.

The focus is on the "new abortionists", specifically on chemical abortion, and it includes an intriguing examination of those chemical abortions that masquerade as contraceptives. This presentation explores these crucial topics from both a spiritual and a scientific perspective.

The two gentleman featured in this interview are experts not only in their respective professional fields, but are also men of exemplary spiritual character.

Dr. Thomas Hilgers is an OB/GYN physician, an author, a pro-life activist of the first rank, and the Director of the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction in Omaha, Nebraska.

Larry Frieders is the Vice-President of Pharmacists for Life, a unique group of professionals with a compelling testimony about these issues. He is also a businessman and pharmacist himself.

The interviewer is Denny Hartford, the Director of Vital Signs Ministries, an evangelical pro-life agency engaged in various educational and activist services in behalf of the sanctity of life.

HARTFORD: Dr. Hilgers, can we begin by discussing first of all why Christians should be concerned about what I've referred to in this introduction as the "new abortionists"?

HILGERS: For a number of years chemical abortifacients have been available and, in fact, used extensively. But for the most part, people, not just Christians, but people of all faiths and backgrounds haven't been aware of it. There's a profound amount of ignorance out there with regard to the abortion effects of birth control pills and other chemicals that are on the market.

HARTFORD: Larry, I know that in your roles as a professional pharmacist and certainly as one of the leaders of Pharmacists for Life you agree that there is a tremendous amount of confusion and even misinformation on this subject. What do you think are some of the initial problems that we have to address with the issue?

FRIEDERS: Well, when you look at the literature and the information that's available on the birth control pill, for example, you find that the facts are there. The package inserts, the Physicians Desk Reference a variety of sources of information — all very specifically state what these oral contraceptives do.

They are indicated only for the prevention of pregnancy. And there are three mechanisms of how the birth control pills work and they're quite well established; they've been known for years.

The most commonly portrayed method is that it interferes with ovulation. So if you don't have a viable egg being produced, you're not going to get pregnant — this action is certainly a type of contraception.

However, when that fails, and it does fail, the "back-up mechanisms" by which pregnancies are avoided come into play.

Obviously, the one "back-up mechanism" that we're most concerned with is the one that changes the woman's body in such a way that if there is a new life, that tiny human loses the ability to implant and then grow and be nourished by the mother.

The facts are clear — we've all known them intellectually. I learned them in school. I had to answer those questions on my state board pharmacy exam. The problem is getting that knowledge from my intellect down to where it became part of who I am.

I had to accept the fact that I was participating in the sale and distribution of a product that was, in fact, causing the loss of life. So it's not that the knowledge isn't there, but rather that there's something keeping that knowledge from descending from one's intellect, down into the area of your heart where you can recognize the awesome tragedies that are happening.

HARTFORD: Dr. Hilgers, when we mention chemical abortion many people will think of RU486 or they may even think of a third world country with some witch doctor or native medicine practitioner giving an expectant mother drugs for abortion. But, the issue is much, much broader. We're talking about a whole new generation of drugs that are killing unborn children.

HILGERS: Indeed. Of course, the use of oral contraceptives and intrauterine devices are the main two abortifacients that have been here in the United States for many, many years. I wrote a paper, 20 years ago now, detailing the abortifacient effects of the intrauterine device.

The basic facts about life or death involved in that issue have not changed at all. And what Mr. Frieders has said about the long-standing knowledge of the birth control pills' adverse effects on the lining of the uterus is certainly true.

Now we've seen the recent FDA approval of Norplant, one of the newer implantable, so-called "contraceptives" which has as one of its primary mechanisms the disturbance of the lining of the uterus.

When this lining is injured, it is done for the specific purpose of destroying the new life that is created if ovulation occurs — and with Norplant, ovulation probably occurs at an alarming percentage of the time.

HARTFORD: Larry, in order to understand these things fully, we may have to go back to some basic biology, specifically the scientific facts surrounding the beginning of human life. What is conception? And at what point in the process of the development of the child do these drugs and devices actually interfere to end a human life?

FRIEDERS: The science is actually pretty well known, Denny. Life begins at the beginning. There is only one point in time when a new life is created. And that's when there are 23 chromosomes from mom and 23 chromosomes from dad that come together, miraculously, and create a new cell containing 46 chromosomes. It is an organism unlike any that's ever existed in the past and totally unlike anything that will ever exist again. It is a human being. [Human life begins when the sperm enters the egg]

It is not part of the mother's body. It is a cell of 46 chromosomes made up of two other half cells. It is human life. It doesn't become life until something magical happens to it, because the magical thing has already happened! God took two unique things and created something totally unique from those two things.

Now, during the seven to ten days that this new life is progressing down the fallopian tube, it is growing in size continuously — it is doubling and doubling and doubling, until it reaches a point where it needs to attach to the mother's uterus in order to gain additional nourishment from her blood supply.

But at no time does this still very tiny human child ever become part of the woman's body. Nor is the mother part of the child. The mother is a vessel in which this child is growing. The mother is providing nourishment, and providing a safe and warm place for the baby to survive.

The blood supplies are totally different. They do not share chemical activities of the body. Mother may be sick, baby may be healthy, there is not a one-to-one relationship. So at no time does baby become a part of mom.

That's the physiology that so obviously contradicts the rhetoric of abortion when people are talking merely about the rights of women. I believe strongly in peoples' rights, it's one of the gifts the Lord has given us, the right to choose.

But that little life is not a part of the mother; therefore, the mother does not have a moral right to have the other person killed.

HARTFORD: Dr. Hilgers, at what point then do we see the drugs interrupting this process? I know that the American Medical Association attempted a few years ago to actually redefine conception in order to allow for an easier acceptance of these drugs. Could you discuss that and tell us exactly how abortions are occurring through the use of abortifacient chemicals?

HILGERS: The chemical abortions we are speaking of here take place at the point where implantation occurs, that is, in the lining of the uterus. That is, as Mr. Frieders said, seven to nine days following conception. And, yes, the American Medical Association and other organizations did try and redefine the beginning of human life specifically to help sell abortifacient devices and drugs.

What they did was reject the traditionally-accepted and scientifically-authenticated definition (namely, conception) and substitute a belief that life did not "begin" until implantation or even later. It was a purely political decision and obviously it was not based on fact.

The re-definition of the beginning of life was actually done to re-define abortion in hopes that these devices like the IUD and drugs like birth control pills would no longer be thought of as abortive.

It's interesting, to note, that the redefinition began in the sixties with the intrauterine device and the concerns about the religious groups in Pakistan and India particularly which are non-Christian religions but which have a deep respect for life and are very much opposed to abortion.

The manufacturers of the devices (and their friends) were worried these devices would not be well accepted in these cultures and so the "sales pitch" ignored science and centered on changing language instead.

HARTFORD: What we are learning here is that the developing human child, created as Christians testify in the image and likeness of God, is in effect left homeless, not being able to implant in the uterus and is thus left to die an ignoble and secret death.

Through the chemicals and the IUDs, we therefore have the termination of a life — we have an abortion. Gentlemen, why is this not common knowledge?

You both have said that this information has been around, that it is in black and white in the Physicians Desk Reference and even in the literature of the manufacturers. Why then is there so much misinformation even from Christian physicians, the clergy, and others about these crucial matters?

HILGERS: I must say that a large amount of it comes from the physicians themselves. Physicians, for the most part, have simply denied that these devices are abortive. With regard to the birth control pill, for example, they will argue that most of the time they act as contraceptives, which is probably true.

But at the same time they deny that at least some of the time they are clearly abortive. This denial has become a part of their practice to the extent where it is no longer a part of their ethical sensitivity.

When talking to women about any of these devices and chemicals, their presentation avoids telling the patient about the possibility that they might be abortive.

So the physicians, in order to justify their own practices, have kept this information from people. Part of our responsibility is to bring that information to people so they can begin to look at this more carefully and make moral and ethically-true decisions.

HARTFORD: Larry, I know that you have undergone a spiritual conversion when it comes to dealing with chemical abortion. In your own practice you came to the decision that you no longer were going to oppose so-called birth control pills in an abstract way, but you were not even going to sell them in your store. Could you tell us briefly how that conversion occurred in your life?

FRIEDERS: Well, Denny, I'm happy to talk about that. My thinking was first challenged around 1986 or 1987. At that time there had been a convict executed in Texas and I read a letter to the editor in one of the pharmacy journals from a person who was condemning the act of using medicines, things that are supposed to heal, to kill.

You see, they have to have a pharmacist prepare the compound and administer it. The person who wrote this letter of opposition was a man named Bo Kuhar, who I learned was the President of a group called Pharmacists for Life.

I contacted him about that issue. In subsequent conversation, he made me aware of the fact that involvement with birth control pills also created alarming moral problems.

Even though I knew the science in an intellectual sense, the ramifications of the truth started to become clearer to me. At that time I was still selling birth control pills.

I figured even if they were bad that if customers don't buy them from me they would buy them from someone else, and it's not my job to impose my morality on these customers, etc., etc. — all the line of basically illogical rhetoric that people use.

But I had people praying for me, and I was attending church on a regular basis at that time. It became more and more obvious that the more I sold these things, the more I felt torn. I knew I was doing something contrary to my Christian beliefs.

Then I was put in touch with more pharmacists who had the same experience and who had stopped selling the pills. Mr. Kuhar stopped selling them in his store, a fellow named Paul Reckenbauck in Ohio discontinued the sale of them in his store, another fellow named Phil Brooks, and I contacted them all and talked to them.

Not once did anybody order me to stop, they all kindly said that was a decision that was mine to make. They all did say, however, that they would pray for me. They promised to ask God for wisdom and courage for me.

The last conversation I had was in a small prayer group just sitting around talking with some people, and someone said , "Well you know what you have to do". So we discontinued the sale.

We were filling anywhere between 100-200 prescriptions a month for the pill, and we prepared a letter to physicians and customers letting everyone know what we were going to do and when we were going to do it and then we did it!

The first contact I had with someone coming for a birth control pill was a young family, a newly married Jewish couple. They tentatively handed me their prescription, and I thought "This is it; this is my first consultation telling someone I can't do this".

So I got my packet of information and I asked the young couple to go with me to my desk area in the back. I began to explain to them why I no longer sold the pills and I had my information on natural family planning that I was ready to offer, when the young girl broke down sobbing almost hysterically.

At that time I felt I had perhaps made a mistake. I shot up a quick prayer — "Lord, this is not a good start for this change in my life. It could have been easier, couldn't it?"

But, as it turns out, the girl explained that her mother had breast cancer, and her aunt had died of cancer. She did not have all the knowledge, but she believed that birth control pills somehow had contributed to certain types of cancers.

And so she had been really afraid of them. The tears were actually tears of relief, and she was very happy to know that somebody said "I don't think you ought to take these things". After that point it was all easy. I had critics call and complain, I had letters written, but essentially it got easier.

HARTFORD: Dr. Hilgers, many people would say that Mr. Frieders, overreacted in his decision not to sell any birth control pills. They might argue that their own doctor prescribes birth control pills but only the types that do not endanger the unborn. Are there any birth control pills out there that do not have this potential to abort a developing child?

HILGERS: Denny, thanks for the plain question. Let me give you a plain answer - there are none!

At my last count in looking at the Physicians Desk Reference, which is the big book that all doctors possess which describes all the medicines that are on the market, there were 44 different types of birth control pills.

You see, when we talk about the birth control pill we are not talking about the same pill. At least 44 different ones exist, and they have different concentrations of chemicals that make them work.

None of these so-called birth control pills have a mechanism which is completely contraceptive; put the other way around, all birth control pills available have a mechanism which disturbs or disintegrates the lining of the uterus to the extent that the possibility of abortion exists.

HARTFORD: Regarding the chances of "breakthrough" ovulation, Dr. Hilgers, just how high could that figure be?

HILGERS: I would say that most birth control pills on the market have anywhere from four percent to ten percent chance of allowing "breakthrough" ovulation.

There are pills called mini-pills which contain only a progesterone-like hormone where the percentage of ovulations are probably more in the 50 to 60 percent range. But those are not used as commonly. So, the most common birth control pill probably is in the range of two to ten percent.

HARTFORD: It can hardly be disputed that local pastors encounter a dramatically different attitude to children in their premarital counseling than what existed even a generation ago. I'm sure that both of you have encountered this in your own fields as well.

You certainly have had to deal with men and women who expect from you advice on birth control, Dr. Hilgers. How do you deal with what is, at its base, an anti-child bias? What do you say to them?

HILGERS: Denny, my job is rather easy in this respect because in about two minutes I can describe for them how a woman's body itself can tell them with remarkable accuracy when she is fertile and when she is not fertile.

In fact, I can assure them that by improved methods of natural family planning, they can know effectiveness ratings at least as accurate as the birth control pills or other devices that they may be relying upon.

For the most part, my patients are like men and women throughout the West; that is, they are unaware of the inherent dangers of birth control pills and devices AND they are equally unaware of the more healthy, more spiritually-sound options represented by the modern methods of natural family planning.

People often have this notion that's been sold for many years that the much-derided "calendar rhythm" method of some forty years ago doesn't work. But that's irrelevant to a discussion of modern methods.

Indeed, contemporary methods of natural family planning, which carefully define the times of a woman's fertility and infertility are very, very effective for both achieving and avoiding pregnancy.

Incidentally, they're not methods of contraception at all. They give the couple the freedom to choose, if you will, whether to have a child or not to have a child.

So again Denny my job is pretty easy because it involves good news about their health, their emotional and spiritual lives, and their responsibilities.

They're often rather startled because nobody's ever told them this before but generally they are very happy to learn the facts and we then build on that secure foundation.

I explain in detail, for instance, about natural family planning, particularly the Creighton model system which we've been involved in researching for so many years now. This is a sort of a gynecologic health-maintenance system.

HARTFORD: Your advice must be unlike that of many OB/GYN doctors, is it not?

HILGERS: I'm afraid so. It has occurred to me recently that birth control pills are probably the major medicine that gynecologists prescribe.

People usually think of the pill as just for contraceptive purposes, but doctors prescribe them for ovarian cysts, to eliminate unusual bleeding, to regulate the cycle when the cycle might be too long or too short, to treat endometriosis, to treat pre-menstrual tension syndrome, and so on.

There's a whole variety of conditions that brings a patient into the gynecologist, and that doctor will often put them on the birth control pill to solve it.

But you see the birth control pill doesn't solve any of that! It only suppresses the system — it only covers it up or disguises the underlying cause of all these different kinds of problems. This is a tremendous tragedy.

Since I haven't been involved in the prescription of birth control pills for many years, I have instead been studying all of this, so that now we can offer genuine treatments for these disorders.

By using this health-maintenance system, we can tell if women have ovarian cysts, we can tell if they have unusual bleeding and what the causes are. If they have pre-menstrual syndrome, for instance, we can cooperatively treat their menstrual cycles and ovulation cycles in a way that's not suppressive.

So it's a whole new way, really, of practicing medicine and it is very exciting and very rewarding. It uses the skills and talents that I've spent a lot of time trying to learn over many years in a way that's really constructive to my patients. And when they hear about that they're very pleased.

HARTFORD: Larry, you also take a position on the pill which is unpopular with many in your profession. You argue effectively, however, that since the pill is not a medicine, it is actually a strange thing for pharmacists to prescribe.

FRIEDERS: You're right, Denny; let me address that for a moment. Dr. Hilgers' point is a very important one. Not one of the maladies for which the pill is commonly prescribed is documented in the official literature or in the package inserts.

So to use those pills for something other than it's only indication, which, of course, is to prevent pregnancy, is to use it inappropriately and, one might argue in this litigious society might even be to use it illegally.

Again, the FDA is very specific about what the pill can be used for, and there's only one indication. So it puts the pharmacist in an unusual situation. Here we are dispensing things in good faith, on the orders of a doctor, and in some cases the drugs are being used inappropriately.

HARTFORD: What about the commercial strength of the birth control industry? The dollars involved here must be incredible.

FRIEDERS: Well, look, you have 28 little pills; they're very small and I'm sure that they do not cost much to make. However, they sell for around $20 or more. I've extrapolated that and it runs to about 3 or 3.5 billion dollars a year in the United States.

That's right - 3.5 billion! So we're up against a very large financial interest indeed.

I would think gross profits on these products are probably in the range of 75% or more. So when you make a decision not to sell pills, or when you make a decision not to prescribe pills, or, for that matter, when you make a decision to unequivocally avoid using the pill, you are opening yourself up to an awful lot of powerful criticism.

And what you become to your peers then is a very powerful mirror. Once somebody sees you responding positively to the truth, in step with the will of the Lord, it hurts them. And they can turn that hurt into anger and, before long, they're coming after you!

HARTFORD: So, one of the reasons for the misinformation and the confusion, is that we're actually opposing a very powerful and entrenched industry. Obviously, there is a very lucrative market there that the industry doesn't want disturbed.

HILGERS: It influences the medical professional's practice significantly, Denny. Several years ago I did a study on the amount of advertising dollars that went into the professional journals.

We looked at the five major journals of obstetrics and gynecology. Twenty-five percent of all the advertising in those journals was provided by the contraceptive industry.

Millions of dollars go to those journals to support those advertisements, and of course support the journals and the staff which, in turn, promote contraceptives in their reporting and editorial policy.

The numbers of dollars and the international contraceptive industrialization that has gone on in the last 25 or 30 years is really incredible. This is really big-time business, there's no question about that.

HARTFORD: Debra Evans, a prominent evangelical author who deals extensively with medical ethics in her work, made the statement recently that it's going to be very difficult to picket a woman's medicine cabinet.

Her point was to emphasize the tremendous difficulties facing the pro-life community as they seek to protect the unborn from the waves of chemical abortion that are now upon us.

It seems that groups like Pharmacists for Life, and researchers and physicians like yourself, Dr. Hilgers, may well end up being key warriors in a new battle for the sanctity of human life.

HILGERS: Over the last several years the threat posed by RU486, which has been talked about a lot and is recognized by everybody as an abortive chemical, is that it will change the whole abortion industry to a microscopic abortion industry and actually eliminate the need for surgical abortions.

The sort of odd thing about that is this microscopic abortion business has been around for a long time. And our role, it seems to me, is primarily to provide education, but also to be able to provide moral leadership to our colleagues.

Men and women need to understand that Christian decision making must be in full accord with the truth. Education is very important, because, as we've said, we're looking at a profound amount of ignorance on these issues.

HARTFORD: Gentleman, thank you so much for your provocative and inspiring remarks. Let me quickly sum up here.

Through surgical abortion, just in the United States alone, we are destroying over 4,000 children every day [1 million 460 thousand a year]
— precious babies created in the image and likeness of God.

And there has developed in our nation (as well as in Great Britain, Germany and elsewhere) at least a theological consensus against this slaughter of the innocents. Churches have begun to decry the violence, the barbaric inhumanity represented by the knives and suction machines of the abortionists.

However, what you have learned here is that the devil is destroying other innocent victims but through more secret and subtle ways. Make no mistake; however, what we have been exploring here is also abortion. It is no less sinister a crime, not only against man, but certainly against God even though the weapons employed are the more socially-acceptable ones of chemicals or devices.

We want to encourage you before God, to look very carefully at both the scientific and the spiritual evidence, and make certain that your personal and public witness to the sanctity of all human life is comprehensive.

If there has been sin, confess to the forgiving Christ of the cross and sin no more. If there has been cowardice and willful ignorance, forsake them now and walk in the healing light and love of the Savior. Human life is not something with which we can gamble. We must not "play the odds" when the stakes are His children. [Bold emphasis mine, Pete]

Prepared by Vital Signs Ministries

Dr. Thomas Hilgers is the director of the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction, an institute dedicated to research, education and service in the areas of human reproduction within the context of the teachings of the Catholic Church.

He was previously on the faculty of medicine at St. Louis University School of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine in their department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is the author of more than a hundred books, book chapters, articles and videotapes.

Lawrence J. Frieders was the owner of the Northern Illinois Home Health Agency and vice president of Pharmacists for Life.

Denny Hartford is the Director of Vital Signs Ministries, a Christ-centered, comprehensive pro-life agency that has been a "voice for the voiceless" since 1982.

Vital Signs Ministries
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P. O. Box 34278 Omaha, NE 68134 (402) 341-8886
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