The Pill Kills?
by Karina
Web Editor
Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund
Via RH Reality Check:
On June 7th, the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that gave married people the right to use contraception, the American Life League, along with Pro-Life Wisconsin and Pharmacists for Life International Associate groups want you to join them in protesting in front of facilities that distribute birth control products. The national day against contraception, Protest the Pill Day '08: The Pill Kills Babies, was started to convince the American people of a simple and imaginative idea: attempting to prevent abortion is abortion too.
Jessica at Feministing pulled out some gems of misinformation off the talking points section of the anti-birth control campaigns website:
The birth control pill does not reduce the number of abortions. The only difference is that you are killing the baby earlier.
[T]he pill and other contraceptives can stop a tiny child's implantation in his/her mother's womb because the pill irritates the lining of the uterus so that the tiny baby boy or baby girl cannot attach to the lining of the uterus and the newly formed human person is aborted and dies. This is called a chemical abortion.
This is the kind of insanity that shows the importance of passing laws like the Birth Control Protection Act (which unfortunately was soundly defeated in SD this past legislative session). Apparently, scientific fact is not a factor for some anti-choicers.
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