Rachel Maddow - IUD is not an ongoing abortion in your body
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Here's Why Hobby Lobby Thinks IUDs Are Like Abortions
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This case has gotten a bit confusing because Hobby Lobby already covers 16 types of birth control, including birth control pills. The company’s resistance is specifically to two types of emergency “morning after pills”—Plan B and Ella—as well as a more long-term form of birth control, a T-shaped widget known as a intrauterine device, or IUD.
There are two major types of IUDs: hormonal and copper. Both kinds work by making it harder for the sperm to reach the egg (more on this later), and they are very effective—only about one woman out of 100 will get pregnant with one. IUDs are the most common form of birth control worldwide, but only about 8.5 percent of American women use them.
A copper IUD (Ho/AP)
So why are they these little baby-proofing contraptions the subjects of a Supreme Court case?
Hobby Lobby claims that IUDs and morning-after pills are more like abortifacients, meaning they kill fertilized embryos, than they are like contraceptives. And their reasoning rests on the fact that, with the exception of condoms, we don’t know exactly how most forms of birth control work, every time they work.
Okay, flashback to sixth grade: A pregnancy requires a very delicate ballet to unfold inside the reproductive system. The sperm must find its way to the egg and chassé its way inside it, a process called “fertilization.” (Here’s a very dramatic video of this process, if you’re interested.)
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http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/craft-store-disagrees-with-science-on-when-life-begins/284382/