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My sister,who is 17,takes them because her periods wee very painful,so they can be beneficial.
I might take them for the same reason,as my periods are heavy and are affecting my iron levels.
IIRC, though, there are other medical applications for the Pill— I know it’s been used to treat severe gastronomical disorders, for example.
Bottom line is what is preventing a doctor from writing a prescription and the patient going to the pharmacy and paying a copay for the drug?
Morally I have absolutely no problem with the use of the pill. I have a hell of a problem with abortions of convenience. I also have a big problem with government deciding what a religious institution (the Catholic Church and their hospitals) must provide in the way of contreception and abortion for their employees.
This administration is the one that has crossed the boundary between church and state. That worked out real good for Henry the VIII in England. They are still fighting that battle today in Northern Ireland.
They keep learning strange new things about The Pill.
Messing with the hormones over a long period of time can’t be a good thing.
Here is one article about how it changes the chemistry of attraction....
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/pill-makes-women-less-responsive-720132.html
And the funny thing is....while women are being sold on the idea they need the pill in order to enjoy sex. The opposite is most likely true...that women who are not on the pill are the ones enjoying it the most.
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I’m not anti-birth control but I do think birth control pills are dangerously over used with safety far exaggerated. We know the effects on male endocrine systems from talking steroids how is it that similar side affects are ignored with birth control pills? They are ignored because of political expediency.
We have several credible studies showing that birth control pills not only can affect the physical well being of a woman negatively but also affect a woman’s mental state and skew a woman’s preferences towards men that are less likely to form long term relationships or be good fathers. Look at the increase in divorce etc and I have little doubt that birth control pills have played a direct role.
I know from personal experience that I just didn’t care for my wife much when she was on birth control pills. She was just a colder less pleasant person in so many ways. I do not know if they affect all women this way but if even a sizable percentage are affected it could explain the increase in many marital problems. Not that I blame the pill solely but they do suppress the excretion of Oxytocin
the so called hormone of love and vasopressin which plays a key role in sexual bonding. Some wish to blame shifts in sexual attitudes solely on the cultural change when it is increasingly looking like the cultural change has been driven by women reprogrammed hormonally in ways that make them more apt to be promiscuous, more apt to favor men who are less stable, less likely to form strong sexual bonds, and I would suspect less likely to form strong bonds with their own children.
The problem we have today is that there is such vested interest in the current birth control paradigm that any shift away from it is considered sacrilegious.
Birth control pills always made me sick to my stomach, worsened my migraines, and made me gain weight. So in my short stint on them, I felt like throwing up, had horrible headaches, and felt fat — I guess they were working to avoid pregnancy in that regard!
I still only have two kids, one adopted. There are other ways if you don’t want to get pregnant and I don’t mean abortion or avoiding your husband.
I agree with the headline, but not all of the other BS in the article.
When wife and I married in our late 20s, it was the 2nd for both of us and we each had daughters 6 years old. She was on the pill. About 6 years later, her OB/GYN told her there were possible signs of cancer and that continued use of the pill might be dangerous. We discussed, decided we did not want to have another child, and I agreed to get a vasectomy.
She is now 70 and we both have grandchildren from our daughters. (full disclosure... we divorced 16 years ago)
Great article. I hope that more women will become aware of the truth.
just type into your browser various combinations of: Lafranchi pill [and especially with keyword combo, though one doesn’t even have to close in quotes:] molotov cocktail.
You’ll be all day and more reading of the irrefutable studies. Many of these have come in the last five years and especially the last 2-3 years.
We were very fortunate to have Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., F.A.C.S. do a presentation at our local March for Life
Jan 2011. It’s she who has used the phrase “molotov cocktail” in regards breast cancer and the pill.