Posted on 12/23/2005 10:27:20 AM PST by billorites
And it's just another "today in the world of science" news story.
So what's talked about in this article would fall into the "not" category, right?
Is there some requirement I'm not aware of that you must believe any of the teachings of the so called Catholic Church to be on FreeRepublic?
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I shudder to think that any woamn would trust her gynecological care to this nut case!
Well at least she is suggesting taking something she has taken herself for over a decade.
"The elimination of periods -- politely called menstrual suppression -- is an objective the pharmaceutical industry has been chasing for several years."
Female gynocologists who take the pill have been doing this for years. Taking monophasic birth control pills without interruption does the same thing that these pharmaceutical companies have supposedly just invented. Really what they have done is find a new way to market birth control pills.
Maybe we should have listened to Paul VI back in 1968.
Consequences of Artificial MethodsThe pope was prophetic, but he wasn't making a slippery slope argument. His argument is based entirely upon the natural law.17. Responsible men can become more deeply convinced of the truth of the doctrine laid down by the Church on this issue if they reflect on the consequences of methods and plans for artificial birth control. Let them first consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards. Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law. Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection.
Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone. [See China, UN populatin control, gov't funding of Planned Parenthood] It could well happen, therefore, that when people, either individually or in family or social life, experience the inherent difficulties of the divine law and are determined to avoid them, they may give into the hands of public authorities the power to intervene in the most personal and intimate responsibility of husband and wife.
If they further reflect, they must also recognize that an act of mutual love which impairs the capacity to transmit life which God the Creator, through specific laws, has built into it, frustrates His design which constitutes the norm of marriage, and contradicts the will of the Author of life. Hence to use this divine gift while depriving it, even if only partially, of its meaning and purpose, is equally repugnant to the nature of man and of woman, and is consequently in opposition to the plan of God and His holy will. But to experience the gift of married love while respecting the laws of conception is to acknowledge that one is not the master of the sources of life but rather the minister of the design established by the Creator. Just as man does not have unlimited dominion over his body in general, so also, and with more particular reason, he has no such dominion over his specifically sexual faculties, for these are concerned by their very nature with the generation of life, of which God is the source. "Human life is sacred—all men must recognize that fact," Our predecessor Pope John XXIII recalled. "From its very inception it reveals the creating hand of God."God-sent wisdom.
Any young woman contemplating this pill needs to read and re-read this part of the article. I have no scientific evidence to back up this up but I totally believe that long-term birth control pills are devastating women's fertility by suppressing cyling in their ovaries. I don't think the increase in infertility is due solely to delaying pregnancy until later in life. It may affect some women more than others. Anyway, with this new pill, the cycling of the uterus is disrupted too. Who knows what the long-term effects will be?
Depends on the circumstances and the precise nature of the drug.
The pill as normally used is often an abortifacient because there is the possibility that a zygote may be killed by hormonal action in the active/placebo rhythm of the dosage.
But if the dose is so continuous that no ovum ever becomes fertilized (i.e. no zygote is conceived) then it is not abortifacient.
When my husband and I got married (18 years ago come this Monday), we wanted as many children as God would give us. We tried for almost 2 years before I became pregnant with my son. I then became pregnant 2 more times in the next year and a half, but lost both children due to early miscarriages. For the next 7 years I suffered monthly due to severe endometriosis, and during all this time I never became pregnant again. Because my periods were so miserable, I asked my Dr. to help me suppress them so I could enjoy my 10 year anniversary trip with my husband. I did the birth control pill "trick" for 6 months, and those 6 months were the most wonderful of my life. I didn't think every single month that I was pregnant (infertility is one of the most emotionally draining experience a couple can face), and I didn't suffer from the monthly pain of a period. After that, I made the decision that, we as a family of three, were as happy as we could be, and my emotional health was more important to me and my marriage than an unanswered prayer of more children. DepoProvera has allowed me to do this. For me my period was truly a "curse".
OH, By the way, we are Catholic, and I believe that God did put me on this path, and helped me answer my prayers (not in the way I thought I wanted, but in the way HE wanted). Although I do not use DepoProvera as a contraception (I was pretty much considered infertile), that is in the end what it is, so I am going against my Catholic upbringing, but MY health is important too. So please, please think before you make blanket statements.
PS. Merry Christmas
I hate menstruating. I would love to never experience it again (I'm pregnant with #4 now, so I have a few more months off). I would never take the pill to stop it, though. I will admit to being on the pill for three years at one point but will not go back on it, again. Adding hormones to your body that aren't meant to be there is NOT what God or nature intended (for those that don't believe in God.) In addition, for all the liberals on the pill, it messes with the environment. Women urinate out the excess hormones, which goes into our water supply, and has impact on fish and other animals.
I wonder how much breast cancer has increased since the pill. I hear of more and more women who have it.
"I think it's more likely that women and men both use it as an excuse/explanation whenever a woman is in a bad mood. Just mho."
Exactly. That way men don't have to confront the real reason a woman might be upset with them. They can just deprecatively state, "You must be on the rag." Easier than dealing with it, right?
LOL!!!
will these women always be pre-menstrual?
Perhaps she has pets that she dotes on as if they were children.
She may be of Jewish heritage but she certainly doesn't believe in God or practice Judaism except when she shows up for family events.
She has never been married.
She used to date, but not for the past several years because "there are no good men out there."
She is an ardent environmentalist, but only leaves Manhattan to go on vacation or to a beachhouse somewhere on Long Island or Connecticut.
She votes Democrat or possibly Green, but her one hot-button issue is "a woman's right to choose" to murder her own children.
The highlight of her week is a weekend brunch with other middleaged, unmarried professional women where she dishes gossip, complains about the President, the South, the GOP, Christians and men and discusses the latest NYT bestseller or Oprah Book Club selection.
"And as an added bonus, since Anya provides a steady stream of hormones, it promises to quash a woman's usual cyclical fluctuations, virtually wiping out all the irksome symptoms of PMS."
THIS IS THE ANSWER TO MY PRAYERS, IT'S A MIRICLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What?! How much time does it take to... oh, never mind. Almost got myself in trouble.
The hubris of Man continues to amaze me.
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