What if you become pregnant?

[fredandwilma200]

"How much does cigarette smoking affect birth control pill effectivness? A partner of mine is a heavy marijuana/cigarette smoker on birth control, this thread has started to worry me a little"
I was told when I was on Birth Control Long ago, that smoking not only had more health risks but also was not as effective! I dont know if that was just the doctors oppinion or it was medical facts! However, I can say that I was on Birth Control and smoked and It was about eight and a half years ago and I have a beautiful and wonderful child that will turn 8 soon!

[Elusive BiFem]

Originally posted by fredandwilma200
"How much does cigarette smoking affect birth control pill effectivness?

You can do a simple google search on smoking and birth control and get lots of information. Here is an excerpt:

An excerpt from the Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR), a text describing prescription medications and the risks associated, reads as follows:
WARNING: Cigarette smoking increases the risk of serious cardiovascular side effects from oral contraceptive use. This risk increases with age and heavy smoking (15 or more cigarettes per day) and is quite marked in women over 35 years of age. Women who use oral contraceptives should be strongly advised not to smoke. More specifically, risks increase for heart attacks, blood clots, stroke, liver cancer, and gallbladder disease, although the risk is very small in healthy women without underlying risk factors.


- EBF

[tazzie_n_truck]

With us we take strong measures to avoid pregnancy, but if something were to happen say Tazzie got pregnant, we would raise the child. Right now, she is pregnant, and so we don't have to worry about it right now. lol

As far as using abortion as an option of birth control, the 2 of us are very strong opponents to aborting unborn babies, and we personally believe abortion should be illegal.

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[wildchld97]

Originally posted by CuriousElders
It amazes me how many swingers here are abortion adverse. It's another form of birth control - perhaps the ultimate method. We've know quite a few single women who have had a abortion for any one of a number of reasons - mainly that having a baby was incompatible with other life ojectives or the realization that parenting is a demanding job and single-parenting even moreso. Pregnancy is just one of the many possiblities of fucking. It would seem that people who do it with a number of other people had best have an answer for this contingency. Luckily abortion is an option. Women still have a choice. Best of all, if you don't believe abortion is an option, don't have one.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean when you say that you are amazed at "how many swingers HERE are abortion adverse." From what I've read on the whole thread, most of the people who responded are FOR abortion. There were only a few of us *here* on this thread who would choose to raise a child from an unplanned pregnancy.

I for one am personally against abortion but I don't tell others how to live their lives and they can legally choose abortion as a form of birth control if they want...it's just not for us.

[b_and_sc]

We actually had a scare last year. I was 6 weeks late and very scared. However, we had already talked to our play partners in the 'what if' discussions. If a pregnancy was created, the couple would keep and raise the baby as their own. The 'donor' would know about it, but not have any legal claims to it.

We personally are against abortion

I have no idea what we'd do if it happened with a different race...we talked a bit about it before we went to Hedo, figured we'd tell our family that we got very drunk at a party and well...things happened...thank goodness it never became a situation

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[SnSnLex]

Originally posted by BettyAnnMBSC
But; I'm on the pill and will trust them for now.... Even though, I've seen some very pretty bi-racial babies. hmmmmmmmm I can't say that I've never thought about getting PG on purpose with a playmate...

It might just be us, but the above statement is just totally off the wall. That's just asking for tons of trouble in our honest opinion.

If it happened to us, there would be only one solution, abortion. No if's, and's or but's about it, it is a womans choice to do what she wants with her body, be it a face lift, tummy tuck, tattoo's, piercing's or abortion, nobody should be able to tell someone what they can do with their body, ever!!!soapbox

I'm sure people will disagree, but tell me this, do the lawmakers own you?? If not, (nobody should be able to answer yes to that question in the USA) you should be able to do anything you like to do your body without remorse.

[wildchld97]

Originally posted by SnSnLex
If it happened to us, there would be only one solution, abortion. No if's, and's or but's about it, it is a womans choice to do what she wants with her body, be it a face lift, tummy tuck, tattoo's, piercing's or abortion, nobody should be able to tell someone what they can do with their body, ever!!!soapbox

I'm sure people will disagree, but tell me this, do the lawmakers own you?? If not, (nobody should be able to answer yes to that question in the USA) you should be able to do anything you like to do your body without remorse.

Dammit...if we can get the lawmakers to stop controlling a woman's body concerning abortion...why can't we do the same thing with drugs? It IS my body and if I want to smoke a joint, do cocaine, or any other party drug....I should be able to. The women's movement made a great argument when it came to abortion....it's HER body...she should be able to do whatever the heck she wants with it. They badgered the government and they WON! I think we need more pot smokers to vote so we can win the next war of the "it's my body and I'll do what I want."

Hell, I'd settle for being allowed to drive without a seatbelt at this point.

[Alura]

Originally posted by meowkittyhascla
This will sound selfish, but chasing after a teen when in my 50's is something I wouldn't want.

I'm chasing after two in my sixties and, I gotta tell ya, it's the best time I've ever had. Of course, I didn't do it in my thirties, either...

Mr. Alura

[Alura]

Originally posted by wildchld97


I for one am personally against abortion but I don't tell others how to live their lives and they can legally choose abortion as a form of birth control if they want...it's just not for us.

I applaude your stand, Wildchild. The government has no place telling us what moral stands to make.

Mr. Alura