Wednesday, April 2, 2014

The unspoken truth of birth control...

There seems to be a lot of controversy about Hobby Lobby and their stance on birth control. Most birth control and the morning after pill work in several different ways, one of which is by preventing implantation of a fertilized egg (it says so on the insert you get with your birth control).

Hobby Lobby is founded on Christian principles and many Christians disagree with hormonal birth control because it could dispose of a fertilized egg which is already considered a baby by many Christian or pro life folks.  It all comes down to if you believe life begins at conception or not.

Agree or disagree, read the facts in the insert and decide for yourself what you believe. If those employees want birth control it shouldn't be the job of their employer to provide them with it... Especially if they disagree with the way it works. You wouldn't ask a Jewish person to provide pork for their employees.

Why is it that if a Christian disagrees with the worldly view of something we are ignorant, stupid, hateful or any other number of things but when the world disagrees on a Christian view of something it's totally okay?

I've kept my opinion on birth control very private for a few years now because it isn't the popular opinion and because I didn't want to make my friends and family, that do use birth control, uncomfortable.

The truth is, a friend brought it to my attention a few years ago and I felt betrayed by my doctor for not telling me this! How could I have been on this for so long without knowing!? I cried as I wondered how many fertilized eggs (mine and Chris' babies) had been "absorbed by my body" as my doctor put it. It broke my heart! I haven't been on traditional birth control since then.

Here is information on the birth control that I was using until I actually took time to read and understand how it was working. Knowledge is power.