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Honduran Congress bans morning after pill
The Honduran Congress has joined several other Latin American countries in banning the morning-after pill. According to Catholic News Agency, the law passed earlier this year has now taken effect. Carlos Polo, Latin American director of the Population Research Institute, told CNA,
In Latin America, where abortion is illegal, the only option left for the promoters of this pill was to misinform the people by denying the so-called ‘third effect.’ Now we see that pressure and misinformation can last a while but in the end, deceit fails on its own. We will certainly see the morning-after pill eradicated from Latin America, thus freeing ourselves from an inoperative and costly method that has grave adverse effects for women.
Abortion is illegal in Honduras, and advocates for the bill noted that the pill can cause abortions by preventing the embryo’s implantation.
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cool that is almost entirely good news!
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Some definitions: An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo, resulting in or caused by its death.
The morning-after pill is emergency contraception. Here’s how that’s defined: As its name implies, EC is intended for occasional use, when primary means of contraception fail. Since EC methods act before implantation, they are medically and legally considered forms of contraception.
Here’s how pregnancy is defined: In medicine, pregnancy is often defined as beginning when the developing embryo becomes implanted into the endometrial lining of a woman’s uterus.
No implantation? You’re not pregnant, and you’re not having an abortion.
More governmental control over women’s hoo-has. Next they’ll be strapping them down for 9 months and force feeding them vitamins like a foie gras goose.
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I spent some time in Honduras for the Army. I was award the Honduras Airgborne wings. These are great people, who needs our nation support but our Gov. has rejected the Honduran Gov. and the Honduran laws. I am sure this will just cause more reason for Obama to reject the Honduran people and support the former Pres. who will try to grab power.
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Thomas1 (2): Sorry, but you’re opining outside your expertise. Pregnancy and implantation are not the same thing. Pregnancy begins at conception. People who stand to profit from prevention of implantation have tried to redefine “pregnancy,” but it’s a recent invention.
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Now, as to the question of whether “morning after pills” work by preventing implantation, I’m not convinced. As is often the case in this area, reliable data are hard to find.
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Don’t worry I am sure that President Obama will step into the fray and declare this decision wrong just like when Honduras outsted their president for trying to change their constitution.
I think this is a fantastic decision and wish we could get some politicians in Washington DC that weren’t afraid of everything the minority fringe thinks we should have as a moral nation.
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yeah
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I thought that conservatives were vehemently opposed to the notion of looking to foreign law.
Besides, Honduras passed the law because of the influence of Papal teaching. Whatever happened to the days when good-thinking Protestants thought that the Pope was the anti-Christ?
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RSD, huh? We can say something is a good law without declaring that we ourselves are bound by other countries’ laws. And the idea that the Pope is the “anti-Christ” is pretty rare, and has nothing whatever to do with whether this is a good law. Your logic isn’t very good at all here.
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Cheryl, you’ve been around long enough to know that, when it comes to politics, there are only two kinds of posters on WMB: Liberals and the straw men they argue with.
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RSD: I thought that conservatives were vehemently opposed to the notion of looking to foreign law.
They also believe the government should be small and concern itself only with the essentials and stay out of people’s private lives. But it appears they’ll make allowances for moral meddling with which they agree.
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What does logic have to do with it? Attack and ridicule are more effective weapons. Logic is so …so…passe, is it not?
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THOMAS @ 2: What do your last two sentences have to do with the subject? Another example of attack and ridicule when one is unable to use reason and logic.
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CNA neglects to report the statutory penalty in Honduras for “the promotion, consumption, sale and purchasing” of the pill.
Notice the prohibition of “promotion.” Happy, everybody? Welcome to Christian totalitarianism. Your derfinition of free speech is their definition of murder.
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By brother in law is an ob/gyn, and his considered opinion is: no implantation, not pregnant.
Otherwise, every non-implanted blastocyst that naturally exits a woman’s body would have to be considered a miscarriage.
EC is contraception. It does not cause abortions. But since some conservative Christians must obsessively control the private parts of others using the state as a cudgel, why bother with the truth?
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Your brother-in-law went to a different medical school than I did, evidently. It isn’t a matter of “considered opinion,” it’s a matter of words with definitions. I’ve never met an OB/GYN who thought implantation and pregnancy were the same thing. Even if “pregnancy” was the same as “implantation,” nobody thinks that “conception” equals “implantation.” There’s no honest way to conflate contraception and prevention of implantation.
I can’t believe I’m bothering to argue about the definition of the word that singularly defines my career.
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I can’t believe I’m bothering to argue about the definition of the word that singularly defines my career.
All together now: WHO’S THE GREATER FOOL
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Steve: I fail to see the contradiction with advocating small government and opposing abortion. One of the powers everyone agrees the government should have is punishment of crimes like murder. Pro-life people by and large view abortion as murder. In fact, I fell pretty comfortable with saying that that is the basic pro-life stance.
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#17: All together now: WHO’S THE GREATER FOOL
I agree completely. It reminds me of the adage about arguing on the internet and competing in the Special Olympics.
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