WASHINGTON, May 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) – American Life League (ALL) has reacted to the announcement of a new so-called contraceptive patch which a recent Canadian-led study has said is as “good” as the birth control pill. According to the scientific write-up on the patch it uses estrogen and progestin which act in several ways, one of which is to hamper implantation of the embryo in the uterine lining. ALL President Judie Brown notes “That’s abortion. It kills a living human being in his earliest stages of development.”
The principal author of the Canada-U.S. study was Marie-Claire Audet of the Centre Médical des Halles de Ste-Foy in the Quebec City area. It is written up in the May 9 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association and was funded by U.S. drug giant Johnson & Johnson.
Brown decried the contraceptive mentality that views pregnancy as a malady to be avoided at all costs, and fertility as a condition in need of a cure. “Why do we want to mindlessly medicate millions of perfectly healthy women?” she asked. Pro-abortion groups are demanding quick Food and Drug Administration approval of this patch, “as if it were as benign as a Band-Aid,” she said. “This patch may not irritate skin, but it can destroy flesh and blood in the form of an already-conceived human person.”
See the Globe and Mail coverage: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/National/20010509/UPATCMSB.html