The pill is politically correct. You can’t bring up facts when discussing it. Bringing up facts is misogynistic and phallocentric.
Nobody ever questions the effects of tens of millions of women pissing extra estrogen into the water stream for decades. Meanwhile, fish are all turning female and homosexuals seem to be everywhere. No connection, there, right? Has anyone even checked to see if there is?
We banned DDT for less.
Not only everything you mentioned in your post, but another little understood part of the pill is that it is not exactly fool proof either. For example, if you take anti-biotics, you can get pregnant even though taking the pill. ANd what people in general don’t realize is there is only about a 10% chance in any given month of becoming pregnant. So what it really does is cut that 10% chance down by 98%. The drug makers don’t want you to know that it isn’t really worth screwing up your body chemistry to take the thing. I took it for awhile when I was first married and had to stop because it would give me raging migraines for a week at a time....so bad that I would be vomiting and dizzy. Totally not worth it. And yet, even after I went off it, my husband and I managed not to get pregnant until such time as we wanted to.
We live in a pill driven culture. Most women figure the risks are slim and worth it...... I’ll stick with the birth control God provided me with - natural family planning.
Now, having said that, it seems to me that Breast Cancer has a very strong political component. By that I mean that it has high profile advocates, high profile fund raising events, and lots of political baggage. The pill contributes to breast cancer. Abortion contributes to breast cancer. The feminists wail and gnash their teeth over the devastation of breast cancer -- and yet these same feminists push the Pill and Abortion relentlessly.
And to top it all off, as the Left seizes more and more control of the health care industry, the guidelines for early detection of breast cancer are tightened, meaning that more women will die young from this disease to which the "sex positive" views of the Left have made such a contribution.
They are blind to the consequences of their immoral ideology.
I tried to go back on the pill after I had my son, but stopped taking it after three days. Not only did my milk production plummet, but I felt like crap! I had been on the pill since sixteen because of irregular periods. Later I was diagnosed with PCOS and my obgyn told me that the pill would help my condition. The problem is that it doesn’t cure the condition and I had to take fertility meds to get pregnant. After searching for alternative treatments and regular chiropractic treatments, I finally have a regular cycle. The pill is the devil.
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Here’s another possible, theorized problem:
http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/news/20080812/bad-sex-pill
The reality, IMO, is that physicians and drug companies have no idea what the long-term affect of most drugs is. They’re testing drugs on smaller groups for shorter periods of time. Physicians blow you off when you report side effects. Check out the website: www.askapatient.com or read the FDA report on your medications. The insert, that comes with the drug, is only part of the story.
Type in the name of the medication and see what side effects hundreds of patients have experienced. The majority tried to report the side effects to their physicians and were blown off. Buyer beware! In my experience, physicians listen to you for about five minutes, hand you two or three prescriptions, and send you on your way. They have no idea what is wrong with you and you end up taking poison while supporting drug companies. All this before DeathCare starts. Just imagine the horror of DeathCare when your visit is cut to one minute.
If the regular old pill can do this, I have to wonder what kind of damage is going to be done by these new contraceptives that reduce menstruation to just 4 times a year.
Then, of course, there is the added benefit of birth control and poverty prevention!!!
What I find most interesting is that the promise of the “pill” has not materialized. Was the goal to increase promiscuity which greatly expands the spread of sexual disease and the rate at which new venereal diseases evolve?
We have even more out of wedlock pregnancies and broken families. The cost it can be argued is far greater than had we just kept with the idea of controlling oneself sexually and dealing with the consequences. We have more abortions than we ever did before which you would think would not even be necessary.
The pill also has been found to mess with women’s natural hormone balance and make them less likely to choose men who are good for forming families. The pill has benefits but it has been one of many things that is is destroying our culture and eroding our civilization.
I think the pill makes sex less enjoyable. There have been studies that show this. I don’t like my wife much when she is on the pill. Not because I want her constantly barefoot and pregnant it is just she is more moody, demanding, and less intimate. People get all up in arms about about men taking steroids but women taking something that screws with their natural hormones is fine because it gives them “power” over their bodies. We live in a culture of denial on sex and it isn’t for lack of openness it is because of a lack of the reality of it and its purpose. The left has used it as a wedge to divide and a wedge to shape the culture towards one that is more dependent on bureaucrats and experts where our forbears had no necessity that they be sex educated they seemed to work it out with strong communities and a little thing called shame.
This has been ignored for quite some time...