[Pyro7480]

The hormones contained in the pill such as oestrogen "are present everywhere... in plastic, in disinfectants, in meat that we eat," added Flavia Franconi, of the Society of Italian Pharmacology.

Quite true, and what she's not saying is that it's contributing to the problem.

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[marajade]

this has got to be a joke right

[eclecticEel]

pah-leze.

We get it, they don’t like birth control; just be honest about it because we don’t need the theatrics.

[Bon mots]

It worked for Al Gore...

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

There was a group of scientists that came up with this study almost a year ago. Yes, it was posted on FR.

[Brilliant]

It encourages sex, and sex causes heavy breathing, which increases greenhouse gases.

[SolidWood]

[littlehouse36]

The real bugaboo in The Pill is progestin.

Google “progestin breast cancer.”

[DBrow]

Hmmm...even without The Pill humans must dump tons of hormones into the environment. And add to that animals and their urine, and it adds up to a large number!

Then there are all the insects dumping pheromones into the air, and people emit pheromones too, as do most animals.

Plants use ethylene gas as a hormone and as communications.

Life really must mess up Earth!

I’d like to read some papers on just how much BC hormone is excreted in human female urine and what it’s environmental fate is, before I decide if this is a problem.

Any of you researchers find some backup data to refute or prove this claim?

[Greysard]

Here is another story on the subject.

[DBrow]

An analytical procedure was developed that enables routine analysis of four estrogenic hormones in concentrations below 1 ng/l in surface water and waste water. The recovery was 88–98% with a limit of detection of 0.1–2.4 ng/l depending on the compound and the matrix measured. This method was used to determine the occurrence of 17β-estradiol, 17α-estradiol, estrone and 17α-ethinylestradiol in the aquatic environment in The Netherlands. The data show that estrogenic hormones can be detected at low concentrations (up to 6 ng/l) at some locations in surface water. In selected effluents of waste water treatment plants estrone and 17β-estradiol were detected in concentrations in the ng/l range. Concentrations of 17α-estradiol and the contraceptive 17α-ethinylestradiol were in most of these samples below the limit of detection. Hormone glucuronides were not detected in most surface water and effluents. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V78-3Y9RKF0-B&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=9359869a830b3072a4cac346607b05b5

[Arizona Carolyn]

True and not just birth control pills, but other drugs — all of which end up in our water and is affecting fish and other animals along with humans.

[Liberty Wins]

Various studies indicate that unregulated chemicals released into the environment are causing male animals and humans to take on feminine characteristics.

Does this explain why the Republican party has become so timid?

[Tidbit]

the contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility

Wow this must have man-hating environmental whackos in a dither. Save the environment...sterilize men...save the environment...sterilize men...save the environment...

[Arthur McGowan]

The epidemic of diabetes appears to be linked to the presence of Persistent Organic Pollutants—i.e., The Pill and some other pharmaceuticals.

I’m ready to join a class-action suit against the Pill makers, because of their reckless, negligent activity.

[Alia]

1994, was when I first read of this via a science community. Makes sense. There is also statistical evidence that long-term takers of The Pill have a much harder time conceiving after stopping The Pill, than women who have not used The Pill.

Since the time when I was a girl, the Catholic Church has been encouraging organic means (e.g., "rythym method") to not getting pregnant. Always made perfectly good sense to me.

The U.S. West is predominantly Catholic. And it never ceased to amaze me how many far lefties scorned the Catholic Church.

[cmj328]

through female urine

And also through flushing pills down the drain.

[NYer]

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[GonzoII]

Related: The Pill: What You Might Not Know

[steve8714]

So, we need a “cap and trade” on female urine?
Kidding aside, this shows too graphically that the Natural Law, the law of God, is not broken with impunity.