S.A.F.E Decisions Wheel

S.A.F.E Decisions Wheel

When A Human Being Begins to Exist,
Key Health Decisions & Relevant Scientific Facts

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If you do not know when a human being begins to exist,
you cannot possibly make fully informed decisions about your health.

Your decisions are “informed” when you have all of the relevant INFORMATION you need to make a safe and healthy decision and to voluntarily consent. That way YOU are in charge.

When it comes to your health and human sexual reproduction, some decisions can result in serious and potentially harmful personal consequences. But given that most people aren’t scientists, and that scientifically accurate information about human sexual reproduction is not required (or even the standard), it is difficult to make a truly informed choice and give your fully voluntary “informed consent”.

The good news is that the Human Reproductive Processes and
When A Human Being Begins to Exist are long-known and documented SCIENTIFIC FACTS.

Contend Projects wants to get this objectively accurate science, e.g., the accurate scientific ‘facts of life’, into the hands of everyone.

Contend’s S.A.F.E Decisions Wheel can help you make more informed and healthier personal choices. S.A.F.E is an educational tool for consumers, which provides important scientific facts related to critical personal health decisions.

Life is complicated, but knowing the scientific
‘facts of life’ does not have to be…

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Scientifically accurate data points to empower you to make more informed decisions about

Sexual Intercourse
  • In normal human sexual reproduction, a new whole, individual human being (a Stage 1a human embryo) begins to exist (and pregnancy begins) at the beginning of the fertilization process, when the sperm makes first contact and penetrates the oocyte (or “egg”) .
  • Fertilization occurs (and pregnancy begins) in the woman’s fallopian tube, NOT at implantation in the woman’s uterus (“womb”).
  • Pregnancy (and a new human being) can begin as early as 30 minutes after having normal sexual intercourse.
  • From the very beginning of the process of sexual reproduction (fertilization, the moment when the sperm makes first contact with the “egg”) or of a-sexual reproduction (where the DNA in a mere cell is regulated back to that of an organism, as in identical “twinning” or other kinds of cloning or genetic engineering) until death, there is The Same Whole, Individual, Integrated Human Being.
  • The single-celled human embryo formed at the beginning of the process of fertilization is not just a “cell” – rather it is a whole human organism/being that is one-cell big.

Scientifically accurate data points to empower you to make more informed decisions about

Birth Control
  • In normal human sexual reproduction, a new whole, individual human being (a Stage 1a human embryo) begins to exist (and pregnancy begins) at the beginning of the fertilization process, when the sperm makes first contact and penetrates the oocyte (or “egg”).
  • Fertilization occurs (and pregnancy begins) in the woman’s fallopian tube, NOT at implantation in the woman’s uterus (“womb”).
  • “Birth control” or “fertility control” used to refer only to “contraception”, i.e., preventing fertilization and thus preventing the reproduction of a new human being. However today it refers to any drug, device, practice or surgery that controls or prevents the birth of new human beings WHO MAY or MAY NOT ALREADY EXIST.
  • Birth control includes many methods and some of these methods are “contraceptive”, while others are “abortifacient”. The key difference between contraception and abortifacients is WHEN the birth control method works – before or after a new human being has begun to exist.
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  • Contraception is birth control that prevents fertilization and pregnancy (i.e, prevents the sperm from making first contact and penetrating the oocyte or “egg”). There are many different types of contraception and they work in different ways (e.g., preventing ovulation, damaging/killing sperm, providing a barrier between sperm and the oocyte or “egg”).
  • Birth control that works at any point in time after the beginning of the process of fertilization (when a new human embryo begins to exist and pregnancy begins), is an abortifacient (a method that induces abortion – destroys the new human being and ends a pregnancy). For example, implantation occurs five to seven days after a new human being begins to exist (and pregnancy begins). Thus birth control that causes the new embryo to move too slowly, or too fast, or that damages the lining of the uterus (womb) is abortifacient – not contraceptive.
  • Many methods are both contraceptive and abortifacient. They work to prevent fertilization and pregnancy (human sexual reproduction, i.e., first contact between a sperm and an oocyte or “egg”), but also employ mechanisms to destroy a new human embryo and end a pregnancy in the event that fertilization occurs and a new human being begins to exist.

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Emergency “Contraception”
  • In normal human sexual reproduction, a new whole, individual human being (a Stage 1a human embryo) begins to exist (and pregnancy begins) at the beginning of the fertilization process, when the sperm makes first contact and penetrates the “egg”.
  • Fertilization occurs (and pregnancy begins) in the woman’s fallopian tube, NOT at implantation in the woman’s uterus (“womb”).
  • Birth control is any drug, device or practice that controls or prevents the birth of human beings, who may or may not already exist. Birth control that works before fertilization (when a new human being begins to exist and pregnancy begins ) is contraception. Birth control that works after fertilization is an abortifacient (a method that induces abortion – destroys the new human being and ends a pregnancy).
  • Emergency “contraception” (EC) is birth control that is used AFTER sexual intercourse. Emergency “contraceptives” include EC pills and the copper intrauterine device (IUD). EC functions in several ways: preventing ovulation, preventing fertilization and preventing implantation.
  • Since implantation occurs five to seven days after a new human being begins to exist and pregnancy begins, and since EC may prevent implantation, EC is not strictly contraception but also works as an abortifacient. This type of birth control may prevent the already existing human embryo who is traveling through the woman’s fallopian tube from implanting in the uterus, causing the embryo, the new human being, to die.

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Pregnancy
  • In normal human sexual reproduction, pregnancy begins (and a new whole, individual human being, a Stage1a human embryo, begins to exist) at the beginning of the fertilization process (when the sperm makes first contact and penetrates the “egg”).
  • Fertilization occurs (pregnancy begins and a new human being begins to exist) in the woman’s fallopian tube, NOT at implantation in the woman’s uterus (“womb”).
  • Pregnancy can begin as early as 30 minutes after having normal sexual intercourse.
  • There are companies developing over-the-counter tests so that women will more easily be able to know if they are pregnant within 12-24 hours of fertilization (EPF “early pregnancy factor” tests).
  • In artificial sexual reproduction in labs and clinics, the new embryo begins to exist immediately at fertilization in the test tube, but the woman is not pregnant until several days or a week later when the already existing embryo is implanted into her uterus by a clinician.
  • From the very beginning of the process of sexual reproduction (fertilization, the moment when the sperm makes first contact with the “egg”) or of a-sexual reproduction (where the DNA in a mere cell is regulated back to that of an organism, as in identical “twinning” or other kinds of cloning or genetic engineering) until death, there is The Same Whole, Individual, Integrated Human Being.
  • The single-celled human embryo formed at the beginning of the process of fertilization is not just a “cell” – rather it is a whole human organism/being that is one-cell big.

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Abortion
  • Abortion is the termination of pregnancy and a human being – even if that human being is only one or a few cells big.
  • In normal human sexual reproduction, a new whole, individual human being (a Stage 1a human embryo) begins to exist (and pregnancy begins) at the beginning of the fertilization process, when the sperm makes first contact and penetrates the oocyte (or “egg”).
  • Fertilization occurs (pregnancy begins and a new human being begins to exist) in the woman’s fallopian tube, NOT at implantation in the woman’s uterus (“womb”).
  • Pregnancy (and a new human being) can begin as early as 30 minutes after having normal sexual intercourse.
  • During the 8 week human embryonic period abortion involves the use of abortifacients. An abortifacient is any drug, device or practice that destroys an already existing human embryo and ends a pregnancy, at any point during the human embryonic period (from the beginning of the process of fertilization – about five to seven days before implantation – to the end of the eighth week post-fertilization (Carnegie Stage 1a to Carnegie Stage 23).
  • From the very beginning of the process of sexual reproduction (fertilization, the moment when the sperm makes first contact with the “egg”) or of a-sexual reproduction (where the DNA in a mere cell is regulated back to that of an organism, as in identical “twinning” or other kinds of cloning or genetic engineering) until death, there is The Same Whole, Individual, Integrated Human Being.
  • The single-celled human embryo formed at the beginning of the process of fertilization is not just a “cell” – rather it is a whole human organism/being that is one-cell big.

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IVF
  • In vitro fertilization – sexual reproduction outside the body in labs and clinics
  • The new human being/human embryo begins to exist immediately at fertilization in the test tube.
  • Although the woman is a mother immediately at fertilization, she is not “pregnant” until several days or a week later when the already existing embryo is implanted into her uterus (“womb”) by a clinician. By the time the embryo is implanted he or she is already up to 200 cells big.
  • From the very beginning of the process of sexual reproduction (fertilization, the moment when the sperm makes first contact with the “egg”) or of a-sexual reproduction (where the DNA in a mere cell is regulated back to that of an organism, as in identical “twinning” or other kinds of cloning or genetic engineering) until death, there is The Same Whole, Individual, Integrated Human Being.
  • The single-celled human embryo formed at the beginning of the process of fertilization is not just a “cell” – rather it is a whole human organism/being that is one-cell big.

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ARTs
  • Artificial Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) mostly involve a-sexual reproductive technologies (without the immediate use of fertilization).
  • The new a-sexually reproduced human being begins to exist when the DNA in a mere cell is regulated back to that of a human organism.
  • This includes human embryos a-sexually reproduced by cloning (identical “twinning”, pronuclei transfer, mitochondrial transfer, somatic cell nuclear transfer, germ line cell nuclear transfer), genetic engineering, synthetic biology, using “in vitro derived gametes” in “fertilization” by deprogramming/reprogramming “stem cells”, gene “editing”, etc.
  • What is being implanted into the woman’s uterus is an experimental human embryo of some sort who has been a-sexually reproduced using various forms of cloning, genetic engineering, etc.
  • From the very beginning of the process of sexual reproduction (fertilization, the moment when the sperm makes first contact with the “egg”) or of a-sexual reproduction (where the DNA in a mere cell is regulated back to that of an organism, as in identical “twinning” or other kinds of cloning or genetic engineering) until death, there is The Same Whole, Individual, Integrated Human Being.
  • The single-celled human embryo formed at the beginning of the process of fertilization is not just a “cell” – rather it is a whole human organism/being that is one-cell big.

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Informed decisions are better about promoting this aspect of your health too.

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