Do Birth Control Pills Cause Abortion?

Quoted from: Focus on the Family Magazine

December 14, 2001

AMA Disavows Warning on 'Pill'
By Mark Cowan, correspondent

You might be surprised about what some doctors think their patients don't need to know.
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently voted not to inform women that birth control pills may cause the abortion of an a newly conceived baby.

The proposal urged AMA members to tell women that oral contraceptives could cause an abortion by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb. The doctors overwhelmingly rejected the suggestion.

"I'm highly disappointed," said Dr. John Diggs, a medical issues advisor to the Family Research Council. "For them to intentionally say that (they) are not going to inform American women about the real function, the real mechanism (by which) birth control pills work is extremely disappointing."

Dr. John Nelson, an AMA trustee and practicing obstetrician-gynecologist, said the majority listened to the opinion of a reproductive health specialist.
"While there are many concerns about which persons, in fact, should take oral contraceptives - and absolutely they should be fully informed . . . (the claim that birth control pills can cause abortion) is not backed by the current knowledge of science," Nelson said.

Diggs said there is evidence.
"The manufacturer of the birth control pill (itself) says that the pill works, one mechanism being by preventing a newly fertilized human from implanting in it's mother's womb," Diggs said. "That's an abortion and not really a contraceptive effect." ….
The entire article can be found at: http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0018915.html

Two other links with very, very well documented information:

Walter L. Larimore, MD, DABFP
Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, University of South Florida
http://www.epm.org/pilldebate.html

By Randy Alcorn
Excerpts from his comprehensively documented book
http://www.epm.org/bcp3300.html

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