When we examine these issues of birth control the methods are all important. With every article you read in this series remember to ask yourself about your own motives. These are hard questions to ask, but they are necessary. For that reason I will continue to let facts concerning the methods speak for themselves. I will offer some personal thoughts, but in the end only you know where your heart lies.
Conception is when the sperm fertilizes the egg somewhere along the fallopian tube.
From the point of conception there are still a few days that pass before that growing fertilized egg settles into the uterine lining where it continues to grow. There are those who teach that though an egg is fertilized and growing, it is not a pregnancy until it implants in the uterine lining. The first stage of life, of course, is that point of fertilization which we refer to as conception. During that fist stage the fertilized egg goes through a continued process of cell division and growth. The fertilized egg enters the next stage hen, as it grows, it implants itself in the uterine lining.