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It was a best-selling book that used casuistry to argue that the birth control pill is similar to the rhythm method, as it mimics pregnancy using the same hormones.
The chemical substance in these pills acts in the body exactly like progesterone, which the mother's ovary produces.
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It was a best-selling book that used casuistry to argue that the birth control pill is similar to the rhythm method, as it mimics pregnancy using the same hormones.
The chemical substance in these pills acts in the body exactly like progesterone, which the mother's ovary produces.
It has the same effect on the regulating mechanism for ripening eggs and for releasing eggs.
If a woman takes the pill month after month after month, and continuously, not missing any day at all, she is in effect establishing just a pseudo-pregnancy, a make-believe pregnancy.