[SeanG]

Gorgo, you said

If someone started giving out pills for free that ended pregnancies in the first trimester that was completely safe…

You will never be able to find a safe way to drastically stop a natural occurrence in a woman’s body that either evolution or creation made to be the natural order. For instance, the pill can cause lots of problems (an old response I did many years ago):

Now women were reporting a number of minor side effects, like: migraine headaches, depression, nausea, fatigue, skin rashes, inflammation of the gums, weight gain, breast tenderness, and irregular menstruation – (The Boston Women’s Health Collective, The New Our Bodies, Ourselves [New York: Simon Shuster, 1984], pp.242-44). Or how a number of medical studies began pouring in that the complications didn’t end there – for example: World Health Organization, Oral Contraceptives: Technical and Safety Aspects (New York: United Nations Book Shop), p. 20; Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, “[Oral Contraceptives and Venous Thrombo-Embolic Disease, Surgically Confirmed Gall Bladder Disease, and Breast Tumors,” Lancet, January 1973, pp. 1399-1404; O. P. Heinonen, et al., “Cardiovascular Birth Defects and Antenatal Exposure to Female Sex Hormones,” New England Journal of Medicine 296:2 (January 1977), pp. 67-70. These studies, and others, showed that women who use the Pill are susceptible to hypertension – abnormally high blood pressure. They have an increased risk of heart attacks, thromboembolism [the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.], and strokes. They are more significantly susceptible to various kinds of growths, cysts, and malignancies including ovarian cancer, liver cancer, and skin cancer. In addition, it appears that the Pill can make women more susceptible to diabetes, urinary tract infections, epilepsy, asthma, pleurisy, arthritis, eczema, urticaria, chloasma, and ulcers. – (The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, pp. 241-244. [from Grand Illusions : The Legacy of Planned Parenthood, by George Grant].) Did you need to know about the IUD, RU486, Spermicidal Jelly, Etc. How about other forms of birth control: Menstraul Extraction, Suction-Apsiration, Dialation and Curettage (D&C), Dialation and Evacuation (D&E), Saline Amnocentesis, Prostaglandin?

The FDA warned a company that makes Depo-Proverb (a new birth-control) that the commercial misleads consumers by excluding information making the birth control pill seem safer. The warning came in a letter to the company released by the FDA on Dec. 29, 04. In addition to the bleeding problems the pill's label warns that other side effects can include blood clots, heart attack and stroke.

You see, the woman’s body is a hormonal machine that when conception begins, it changes drastically. To stop this normal/natural process, one has to drastically attack this process. This is, and always will be, dangerous to the woman’s body and health. With this in mind, do you think that abortions, which are also equally as risky, should be reduced or increased? Do you disagree or agree with the Senators?