I informed my OB/GYN that I could not take Birth Control pills for hemorrhaging periods. There are many other hormone pills to take, because that’s what they are, hormone pills.
I even had Progesterone suppositories made at a local pharmacy.
“The pill” is just the easiest to write on a script. If a woman is not given the option to get a little plastic pack, she will be given a script for another pill. It’s in the marketing and not the ingredients.
DON’T let the libs fool you.
A few years back I have a divorced neighbor friend that would have the most extreme mood swings (like bi-polar) that I saw personally during PMS/period, and she eventually went on what she said was the ‘birth control pill’ and it effectively softened the swings making her life manageable. At the same time she wanted have unmarried sex (being recently divorced) with different men with the pills protection. And she is a non-practicing Catholic yet. Better yet, she told me she believes that Mothers should put their teenage daughters on the pill.(standard where I live.)
So in her case it was both at least in her view.
I am 100% against Obama-care mandates. Have been. But I think this is an easy battle for Republicans to lose if they are not careful. And they are on a losing streak. If Pelosi becomes Speaker again then 2010 was a waste, and she will try to overturn DOMA.