The birth control pill, for example, prevents pregnancy in three ways: The pill thickens the cervical mucus to make it more difficult for sperm to reach the egg; it suppresses ovulation by mimicking pregnancy - level hormones in the body, preventing eggs from being released from the ovaries; and finally, as a fail - safe, the pill makes the lining of
the uterus inhospitable to any fertilized egg that might slip through.
It's the metal itself that prevents pregnancy by making
the uterus inhospitable to sperm.
3) If that fails, the third action is to change the uterine wall to make
the uterus inhospitable to the fertilised egg.
Not exact matches
They also create an
inhospitable environment within the
uterus, which means that it is not a suitable environment for fertilized eggs to implant and grow.
It works in almost exactly the same way (by decreasing motility in the Fallopian tube and creating an
inhospitable environment within the
uterus), but it is hormone - free.
In turn, that causes an
inhospitable terrain in the
uterus and then the feedback to the pituitary is wrong.