{"id":177323,"date":"2018-01-28T10:41:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T15:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=177323"},"modified":"2021-01-07T14:33:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T20:33:44","slug":"women-risky-hormonal-contraceptives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-risky-hormonal-contraceptives\/","title":{"rendered":"Women deserve better than risky hormonal contraceptives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For decades, women have been putting artificial hormones in their bodies to prevent pregnancy, disrupting their natural fertility. They’ve been told that that these artificial hormones may even have benefits: that this is what they must do in order to be successful and ‘unburdened’ with children. But as modern research continues to reveal, hormonal contraception is dangerous for women.<\/p>\n

The world at large is waking up to what pro-lifers — and the World Health Organization<\/a>\u00a0— have been saying for years now: hormonal birth control has adverse effects and even significantly raises a woman’s risk of breast cancer. A recent study revealed that using hormonal birth control<\/a>,\u00a0even the lower dose hormonal types, raises a woman’s risk of breast cancer by at least<\/em> 20 percent. Depending on other lifestyle and genetic factors, some women’s risks are much higher.<\/p>\n

Predictably, contraception advocates told women not to worry and certainly not<\/em> to just “go off the Pill.” But it was something the media couldn’t ignore. Even local news stations, like this one in Minnesota<\/a>, brought on experts to speak to the “16 million American women” who use hormonal birth control. Oncologist Dr. Michaela Tsai tried to reassure KSTP ABC Channel 5 Eyewitness News viewers by saying that women in their teens and 20s probably don’t have to panic, but women in their 30s and up who have been using hormonal contraception for years may want to rethink what they’re doing. For women who have trusted contraception pushers like Planned Parenthood<\/a>, the abortion<\/a> industry, and Big Pharma for decades<\/em> on this matter, this is frankly frightening.<\/p>\n

The rule of thumb when it comes to hormonal birth control should be, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” While the Pill itself has ugly side effects for women, other, more long-term forms of contraception — which are pushed with greater intensity so women don’t have to “worry” about taking a pill every day — are, to put it simply, a disaster for many women who have become human guinea pigs for the reproductive pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n

Let’s review just a few:<\/p>\n

NuvaRing<\/strong><\/p>\n

While not considered a long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC), the NuvaRing, with its happy, peppy, very yellow ad (below), is made to sound like a great thing. “It’s a small, comfortable, once-monthly vaginal ring that delivers a continuous low dose of hormones. It’s as effective as the Pill, but you don’t have to take it every day!” the ad cheerily states. “Break free from the pack!” the ad suggests, referring to the daily hormonal birth control pill. At the very end, while watching smiling women trade their one-piece swimsuits for more revealing ones and then climbing into a relaxing pool, viewers hear a laundry list of possible risks. But the seriousness of those risks is, again, overshadowed by the carefree picture painted by the 2008 commercial:<\/p>\n