Preventive Medicine? Health Risks & Birth Control

Never before has the US government mandated that private companies must provide services and it adds insult to injury when this mandate includes substances that harm women and cause them to unknowingly self-abort their babies a certain percentage of the time when they are using these substances.

How is it possible for women to self-abort when birth control is meant to prevent pregnancy?  It is possible because many of these birth control methods still allow the woman’s body to ovulate every month.  If sexual relations occur during that time, it is possible to get pregnant.  Recently doctors tried to figure out why some women could not get pregnant using artificial insemination.  They conducted a study which discovered that the lining of a woman’s uterus must be at least 8mm thick in order for a baby, in its tiniest form, to implant and grow in the womb. They found that the use of hormonal contraception (in any of the forms mentioned above) generally keeps the uterine lining below 6mm.(10)  To be clear, if a baby is conceived by a woman on hormonal birth control the embryo  cannot  implant and grow to full gestation of 9 months if the integrity of the uterine lining is too thin.  Instead the baby, in its tiniest form, is unknowingly self-aborted by its mother.  This is what is meant by the word “abortifacient.”  It isn’t just the “morning after” pill or “Ella” that is in the abortion inducing drug category.  It is nearly all of the hormonal birth control that is being mandated.

Since Roe v Wade there has been over 55 million surgical abortions.  These chemical abortions add an estimated 250 million additional abortions to our nation’s holocaust. (11)

This is not information that should be kept from the public.  Women deserve to be told the truth.  They are not being warned that birth control methods are causing breast, liver, and cervical cancer.  They are not being told about the “silent killer” effect which is causing them to unknowingly abort their babies.  They are instead being told that they are healthier on birth control because it decreases ovarian and uterine cancer.  According to the American Cancer Society, out of 100 women with cancer, 31 have breast cancer, 6 have uterine cancer, and 3 have ovarian cancer.  This is not a healthy tradeoff of risks that is worth taking. (12)

If, indeed,” it is cheaper to prevent than to treat” then it is time for the White House, Kathleen Sebeilius, and all health agencies within the government  to sound the warning trumpet to warn women on hormonal birth control  about these devastating medical consequences.

Clearly, birth control does not help women at risk, it places women at risk.

 

Jenn Giroux has been a Registered Nurse for 26 years where she has seen both the physical and spiritual harms of contraception.  She also founded the “Speaking of Motherhood” project in an effort to educate women of the harms of birth control and to elevate the profession of motherhood.  She and her husband, Dan, live in Cincinnati, Ohio and have 9 children.

(1) http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html ;

(2)  Jones RK, Darroch JE and Henshaw SK, Contraceptive use among U.S. women having abortions in 2000–2001, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2002, 34(6):294–303.

(3)  International Pharmacists for Life 2003; http://www.prolifephysicians.org/abortifacient

(4) www.cancer.org

(5)  Kahlenborn et al., “Oral Contraceptive Use –as a risk factor for pre-menopausal breast cancer: a meta analysis”, Mayo Clinic proceedings 2006 pp. 1290-1320, 2006

(6)  Bosch, et al, “Effect of oral contraceptives on risk of cervical cancer…” International Agency of Research on Cancer, 2002

(7)  International Agency for Research on Cancer, a research arm of the World Health Organization, 2010

(8)  http:www.mayoclinic.com/health/performance-enhancing-drugs/SM00045

 

(9) New York Times, Oct. 19, 2010

(10) Rabe T etal The Effects of Monophasic and triplasic Oral Contraceptives on Ovarian Function and Endometrial Thickness Eura J Contra Reproductive Care 1997 2, 39-51

(11)) Kuhar et al,”Infant Homocides through Contraceptives”, International Pharmacists for Life, 5th Edition 2003

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