I think your soap box is the right place to be. The aboritfacient nature of birth control pills is a life or death issue that very few Christians consider.

I don’t recall the dogma surrounding IUDs and BCPs when I was in nursing school but that might be because I pretty much a marginal Christian at the time wasn’t paying attention.

I do recall a big focus on “Healing Touch” and other New Age teachings. One of my professors was in on the Healing Touch” stuff back in the 1960’s.

Thanks for your comment.

David

The students in my class took it in like fools. Not one of them questioned her in this. But I did. And I finally got her to admit to the class that she was speaking with the assumption that pregnancy began at implantation, not at conception.

That’s a big difference!

With parsing of words like that, and with our ignorant youth listening, of course IUDs and MAPs sound like good, acceptable, moral methods of birth control. Even many Christians are okay with IUD’s and taking birth control pills because they don’t bother to question their doctors when they tell them that BCP’s and IUDs operate by PREVENTING pregnancy only.

I totally agree that abortion is 100% wrong. But many pro-lifers don’t pay attention to the (likely) countless numbers of “unwanted” abortions every year among well-meaning Christians. It’s too touchy a subject and so many don’t want to make waves.

But I am personally so glad that I discovered the truth about BCP’s in time to make an informed decision about whether I wanted to play Russian roulette with my unborn children. And I think a lot of other Christians would feel the same way. I’d much rather be informed than ignorant.

Sure, it might be a little more difficult to “plan” pregnancies or find an acceptable method of BC, but at least they wouldn’t be wondering if they were inadvertently killing their children.

Okay, I’ll get off my soap box now.

GN