The Major Reason That We Have Yet To End Abortion - And Response (5)

  • Monday, January 13, 2025

In 10 days we will remember the evil Roe v. Wade decision that legalized nationwide abortion in 1973. While more restrictive, the Dodds v. Jackson Women's Health Organization issued in June 2022 still allows babies to be killed. But why have we made so little progress in ending abortion?

One afternoon I was visiting with a Christian doctor and his wife in the doctor’s office. For years the doctor (I’ll call his name Terry) and his wife had fought abortion. I brought up the subject of birth control pills because the doctor had just met with a pharmaceutical saleswoman, and I heard her make a pitch to him about birth control pills. I made the statement that unless God’s people addressed the fact that birth control pills cause abortions at a week to two weeks after conception, we were never going to see an end to legalized abortion.

The room went silent. When it became apparent that Terry wasn’t going to challenge this statement, his wife leaned forward in her chair. She looked straight at her husband and in a pleading voice said, “Say it isn’t so, Terry.” The implications of her request flooded the room.

The doctor sat in his chair, dropped his eyes slightly to avoid his wife’s gaze, and gave no answer. The doctor’s wife leaned further forward so she could look into her husband’s eyes again and still more earnestly said, “Terry… say it isn’t so.” The doctor dropped his head and looked down at the top of his desk. She waited. Finally, he spoke… “It’s so.”

Charles F. Wysong

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I am very proud of my father for writing the opinion piece: The Major Reason That We Have Yet To End Abortion.

The information that he touched on is not a hidden or secret. The internet has all kinds of information on the fact that birth control pills cause abortions by preventing fertilized eggs from implanting: “Birth control pills work by 1. using hormones to prevent ovulation, 2. thicken cervical mucus to block sperm, and 3. thin the uterine lining to prevent implantation of a fertilized egg.”

A number of videos show the abortive nature of pills. One is at Nucleus Medical Media.

Matthew Wysong

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I read with dismay the opinion piece noted above. Clearly, the Chattanoogan is not employing fact checkers. Birth control pills do not work by causing an abortion two weeks after conception, and any physician who prescribes them should know better. See below for a quote from Mayo Clinic’s online education:

How do the different birth control pills work? Combination birth control pills prevent your ovaries from releasing an egg. They also slow an egg's progress through the fallopian tubes, thicken cervical mucus and thin the lining of the uterus (endometrium). All of these actions help keep sperm from joining the egg.

The minipill slows an egg's progress through the fallopian tubes, thickens cervical mucus and thins the endometrium — all of which help prevent sperm from reaching the egg. The minipill sometimes also suppresses ovulation.

Publishing completely inaccurate information on a topic related to health, especially birth control, at a time when so many people are divided over issues around women’s health and abortion, is irresponsible journalism.

Lisa McClane, RN, MSN, NEA-BC

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No, Ms. McClane, a publication is not responsible for " fact-checking" the opinions expressed by its readers. Besides, I become angry when I think of the biased fact-checking done in recent years.

As the Babylon Bee so brilliantly spoofed last week in the article about Facebook, "Guy Who Said Facebook Was Not Suppressing Free Speech Announces Facebook Will Stop Suppressing Free Speech."

Do your own fact-checking, Ms. McClane, as every responsible adult should when questionable facts are presented to them.

Sam Taylor

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Thank goodness a credentialed medical professional chimed in. Birth control pills are not an abortion pills.

Women can decide when they become pregnant by deferring with birth control pills. It is a woman’s choice to take or not take birth control pills. Stay out of their private business.

In my opinion, the Chattanoogan.com allows un-censored dialogue, true freedom of speech where differing views are allowed. Chattanoogan.com is a beloved news venue.

We need free and open dialogue, because all the censorship about COVID the government wanted off Twitter and Facebook turned out to be true.

Thank you nurse, I just love medical professionals.

April Eidson

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Access to family planning and contraceptive resources was identified by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention as one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the last century. The benefits of contraception access and reproductive autonomy include improved health and well-being of women and their families, reduced maternal and infant mortality, advantages of pregnancy spacing on the health of mothers and children, an increase of women in the work force, and economic self-sufficiency for women. 

The opinions expressed by Charles and Matthew Wysong in their separate letters underscore the fact that a major barrier to contraception access is the lack of knowledge and misconceptions about birth control methods and their use. For the elder Mr. Wysong to claim that birth control pills cause an abortion a week or two after conception is blatant misinformation and almost as comical as his narrative about Dr. Terry’s distressed and disappointed wife. 

As dedicated foes of abortion, I think both father and son would be aware that the most effective way to reduce abortion is to prevent unwanted pregnancy by increasing access to effective birth control.

Elisabeth Zachary

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