Think About It Thursday
June 26, 2008 > No Comments
Did you know that your local drugstore could be selling Plan B i.e. the morning after pill? Both our CVS and Wal-Greens sells this drug. Each pharmacy can choose whether to offer it or not.
As if it mattered, I discovered yesterday that the only requirement to be able to purchase Plan B is that you’re 18 or older. A prescription is not even needed. According to the website you can discreetly order using a printable card that you can just hand over to the pharmacist without ever saying a word.
Notice that the website admits this Plan B works in just the same way as the conventional hormonal birth control options such as “the pill.” Most Christians wouldn’t dream of purchasing a “morning-after-pill” but have no qualms taking the birth-control pill. Yet they both work in the very same way. The only difference I suppose would be with one you are deliberately trying to end a possible pregnancy, the other you would be hoping that the only way you were preventing a pregnancy is that you did not ovulate that month.
I have not met many Christians that when asked “When does life begin?” would say, “After fertilization when the ovum baby has attached to the uterus.” They almost ALWAYS say “Life begins at conception (fertilization).” In fact that is THE most common Pro-Life position.
If that is the case we should prayerfully consider these things and take responsibility for our actions. We should also make these things known to other Christians who may not know. For years we took “the pill” trusting our Doctors that it was a safe method. Coming off the pill was not an easy decision to make as we knew there would be more children and at the time that was not easy to accept, but I believe that if the Lord is working and dealing with you and your husband He will give you the grace and peace you need to do what is right.
Just some scattered thoughts to give you something to think about this Thursday.
If you would like to have a great booklet to hand out on this Randy Alcorn has a great booklet discussing the subject in depth “Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortion”
Interestingly our “Christian” President G. W. Bush supports the “Morning After Pill” (see here) but so does Hillary Clinton? Go figure…
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June 27th, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
WOW!!! I did not know that.
Thanks for the info.
June 27th, 2008 @ 1:20 pm
Amen! It’s hard in these days to trust the Lord sometimes, especially when it comes to the size of your family. The health hazards of the pill are serious. Since I’ve been saved , my thinking is that when talking to women about the pill, they say it’s no different than any other non-chemical method…you’re preventing a pregnancy either way. What I generally say then, is that, yes, you are trying to prevent conception, but with other non chemical forms, if they fail, you’ve still got a baby at that point. With the pill, if it fails and you do concieve and don’t know it…you can abort that baby. Sometimes it’s hard to know what’s right. That’s why we have to lean on the Lord for our guidance. It doesn’t ever matter what our opinion on something is…God’s word never changes.
AMEN! What I’ve found with Christian women is that they don’t WANT to know how the pill works. I guess it’s the old “What you don’t know won’t hurt you” mentality. I remember when I first heard the explanation of how the pill can work. I was in denial I guess and thought they were kooks. So I asked my trusted Dr. and he assured me that it was safe to take, that it only prevented ovulation. No worries. That emboldened us to take the pill another couple of years, until we prayerfully studied it out in depth. And then it wasn’t easy (easier for me than Dearest
) to decide to change our methods. And here we are now with 3 more children, twins and Baby Girl. Cannot IMAGINE life without them and you know what the LORD has provided for them in unbelievable ways!