If a woman doesn't ovulate while taking birth control then what happens to her eggs?

Answer:
they leave your body when you menstruate ( have your period)

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In the old days the pill was strong enough to prevent ovulation. Now, the new birth control pills are low hormone so they don't always prevent ovulation. If a released egg is fertilized, by the time the blastocyst travels down to implant, the hormones in the pill drops and it causes the period to start, blighting a very early pregnancy.

Doctors don't tell women the pill might be abortive. I was shocked to learn it doesn't always prevent ovulation, just implantation.

"Some forms of contraception, specifically the intrauterine device (IUD), Norplant, and certain low-dose oral contraceptives, often do not prevent conception but prevent implantation of an already fertilized ovum. The result is an early abortion, the killing of an already conceived individual. Tragically, many women are not told this by their physicians, and therefore do not make an informed choice about which contraceptive to use." [1] "

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I was told a women does NOT ovulate on birth control, so your period is completely artificial. Kinda scary huh?

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The eggs simply remain in the ovary. They age, just like the rest of your eggs, and become less receptive to fertilization over time, so you won't stay fertile longer than most women. Since women are born with all of the eggs they'll ever have, the unused eggs just "die" and get reabsorbed into the body.

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When you're on birth control you don't ovulate and you don't produce more eggs either. You have what they call "withdrawel bleeding" when you have the inactive pills in your birthcontrol pack. It is bleeding which occurs due to the radical change in hormones, because you're going from being on the artificial hormones to no hormones at all.

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OK...I have to interject. We covered this topic recently in college human biology and I also did a bunch of reading about it when I went on a new pill. It is true that birth control pills do not always prevent ovulation...they work in several ways...inhibiting (but not completely stopping) ovulation, changing the female reproductive tract environment so it is less receptive to sperm and effecting the lining of uterus so that it reduces the possibility of implantation if an egg happens to be released and fertilized. (Obviously some people think this is "killing a baby" but I think that is absurd.)

Anyway, if you don't ovulate, an egg is not released. It most likely has not even matured, so it just kind of waits like it has been all of your life. We are born with all of the (immature) eggs we will ever have.

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