When someone gets pregnant while on birth control and then continues taking it daily until realizing they are pregnant, how does this not harm the fetus? Are there notable side effects from this?

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When someone gets pregnant while on birth control and then continues taking it daily until realizing they are pregnant, how does this not harm the fetus? Are there notable side effects from this?

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Most birth control works by increasing levels of hormones that tell the body it is pregnant already, basically fooling it.

Those hormones would, by necessity, be present during a real pregnancy. A fetus is expected to be exposed to them.

Birth control pills aren’t some anti-baby poison.