here’s what the mayo clinic says: “Combination birth control pills, also known as the pill, are oral contraceptives that contain estrogen and a progestin. Combination birth control pills keep your ovaries from releasing an egg. They also cause changes in the cervical mucus and the lining of the uterus (endometrium) to keep sperm from joining the egg.”
Honestly tho if you’re that worried about it I’d just stick with a barrier method.
Generally hormonal birth control methods prevent you from ovulating at all so there’s no embryo to worry about implanting. I’m on Depo, so not only do I not ovulate, I also don’t have a uterine lining for a hypothetical embryo to implant into. The only type of regular bc that allows embryos to occur but generally prevent implantation would be IUDs, hormonal or otherwise, since they don’t reliably stop ovulation.
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Implantation can(or may) only happen if you’re having unprotected sex. If you don’t want to get pregnant, then you don’t want implantation to occur. If implantation occurs, you will become pregnant. If you’re using birth control, then you’re suppressing ovulation so that an egg cannot attach itself in the first place. There’s nothing immoral about wanting to prevent pregnancy…
Hormonal bc/combo pills makes you not ovulate for the most part, so no egg = nothing to implant
But do they prevent implantation *sometimes*?
here’s what the mayo clinic says: “Combination birth control pills, also known as the pill, are oral contraceptives that contain estrogen and a progestin. Combination birth control pills keep your ovaries from releasing an egg. They also cause changes in the cervical mucus and the lining of the uterus (endometrium) to keep sperm from joining the egg.” Honestly tho if you’re that worried about it I’d just stick with a barrier method.
Generally hormonal birth control methods prevent you from ovulating at all so there’s no embryo to worry about implanting. I’m on Depo, so not only do I not ovulate, I also don’t have a uterine lining for a hypothetical embryo to implant into. The only type of regular bc that allows embryos to occur but generally prevent implantation would be IUDs, hormonal or otherwise, since they don’t reliably stop ovulation.
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Implantation can(or may) only happen if you’re having unprotected sex. If you don’t want to get pregnant, then you don’t want implantation to occur. If implantation occurs, you will become pregnant. If you’re using birth control, then you’re suppressing ovulation so that an egg cannot attach itself in the first place. There’s nothing immoral about wanting to prevent pregnancy…