P.S. Nulliparity definition: A medical term used to refer to a condition or state in which a woman has never given birth to a child, or has never carried a pregnancy.
Did you know that the Catholic Church says it’s OK for a doctor to use a knife? Read more…
I’ve done a few articles of similar nature, and have decided to create the definitive documentation of said contraceptive suckage. For those of you currently on The Pill: I in no way condemn you, I only wish to inform you. Keep an open mind. Read more…
Recent research is pointing to the fact that the pill could increase a woman’s risk of heart attack and stroke long after discontinuation.
During the late 1960s when it came to light that the pill was causing blood clots leading to heart attack, stroke, pulmonary embolism, and death, Congress enacted laws requiring patient packet inserts for all drugs to ensure patients were informed about the risks that accompany medications. Ironically, each decade has revealed a new risk for the pill (like breast and cervical cancer), but in spite of the informed consent laws, many clinicians and most women are the last to know what is being published and debated in the medical literature. This decade is no different.
The U.S. is contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS among African women by its reckless distribution of hormonal contraceptives of all kinds in so-called “reproductive health” programs.
The world’s deadliest killer, HIV/AIDS, and the Birth Control Pill have been carrying on a secret and deadly “love affair” for decades. While women swallowed their “freedom” with the morning orange juice, studies that should have made global headlines yellowed in medical journals, unknown to the general public. Only doctors learned about the pills deadly affair with HIV/AIDS, and they were too busy writing prescriptions for hormonal contraceptives to talk. Read more…
Contraceptives are polluting women’s bodies and the environment, but who cares?
There is a huge effort today to protect the physical environment from the unintended effects of human activity. We have international agreements and national policies to reduce global warming by curbing excess carbon, produced as human beings pursue their material wellbeing. Read more…
This is a short excerpt from an outstanding chapter in the Women, Sex and the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching anthology, to which I am a contributor. Angela Franks, Ph.D. contributed the chapter on contraception. As you know, the prohibition on contraception is one of the most controversial teachings of the Catholic Church. My arrangement with the publisher prohibits me from just posting the whole chapter. I’m giving you a short extract that gives a small taste of what Dr. Franks tackles in her chapter. Read more…
Here’s more from the author of ‘Plan C for Conscience,’ since that post garnered so much attention here and elsewhere. Here’s her take on the reactions her previous article received. Be sure not to miss the last few paragraphs. They’re key.
Pharmacists dispense advice to a colleague who will not sell the morning after pill.
I recently wrote an article expressing my delight that Washington State pharmacists will no longer be forced to dispense products or provide services they find morally objectionable. My elation at the Washington victory was quickly numbed, however, when an edited version ran as a “Point of View” on the Canadian Healthcare Network website. It is one thing for the public to oppose our freedom of conscience, quite another for pharmacists to be shooting themselves in the foot. Read more…
The contraceptive pill could make women better gossips but no better at reading maps, if research carried out in Austria is anything to go by.
The first ever study of the effect of the pill on women’s brains found that it increased areas linked with memory and conversation skills — parts of the brain already better developed in women than in men, the Daily Mail reports. However, the contraceptive appeared to have little effect on areas more dominant in men, including those associated with spatial skills such as map reading. Read more…
I think this is fair. People who want the pill can simply go to a different pharmacy. Big deal. This reminds me a little of the counseling student issue. Surely they could have worked something out there, too. But perhaps I’m naive about people’s open-mindedness going both ways.
by Cristina Alarcon
One American state has thought better of its policy to browbeat pharmacists into selling the morning after pill. Read more…
Wowsers. Well, I guess it’s about time it happened…or is happening. It will be interesting to see how this affects men and society. Though I wonder how many men would really be willing to use it.
by Carolyn Moynihan
Why has there never been a male contraceptive pill? Probably because, knowing that women have stronger reasons to carry this burden, nobody was trying very hard. But now, 50 years after women started risking their health and happiness by swallowing synthetic hormones on a regular basis, Israeli scientists have announced that a male pill is in sight. Read more…
by Carolyn Moynihan
Women are losers in the modern sexual relationships market. What will it take for them to break out of this dilemma?
Mother’s Day in the United States (and some other countries) had an ironic twist to it this year: the powers that be chose to observe May 9 as the fiftieth anniversary of the public debut of the contraceptive pill, the twentieth century’s chief weapon against motherhood as a serious vocation. Read more…
Sixties sex symbol Raquel Welch has blamed the contraceptive pill for the breakdown of sexual morality.
Welch believes the use of oral contraception, which became available in the 60s, has encouraged promiscuity and young people no longer care about the institute of marriage, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Read more…
by R.J. Snell
The fiftieth anniversary of oral contraceptives is a reminder of all the things the Pill lets us forget.
The Pill turns 50 this month. Such a significant anniversary prompted cover stories, histories, celebratory remembrances, and calls for expanded access. None of this attention is surprising: the Pill was and continues to be an enormous source of social change in demographics, sexual activity, social mores, divorce, gender roles, and the economy. What is surprising is how mixed some of these assessments have been. Read more…
Here’s another good one to commemorate the anniversary of The Pill.
By Daniel J. Flynn
Fifty years ago this June, the Food and Drug Administration granted approval to the birth-control pill. Because the FDA had announced on May 9, 1960, that it intended to approve the drug, and because May 9 conveniently fell on Mother’s Day this year, The Pill’s celebrants seized on Mother’s Day to mark The Pill’s anniversary. In contrast to the perfect timing that links a drug to prevent motherhood with a holiday celebrating it is the bad timing that witnesses The Pill’s 50th anniversary coinciding with a study whose findings suggest birth-control pills have worked better in theory than in practice. Read more…
(CNN) — It was 50 years ago that the U.S. FDA approved the birth control pill, an anniversary the agency is celebrating this Sunday, which (coincidentally?) happens to be Mother’s Day. Here are a range of opinions CNN.com gathered on the significance of The Pill’s introduction, and the cultural ripples it set in motion.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin is a founding editor of Ms. Magazine, a founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus, and the author of nine books, most recently the novel, Three Daughters. Read more…
Janet Smith is the bomb.
Detroit, Mich., May 7, 2010 / 07:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Responding to a recent Agence France Presse (AFP) article that criticized Catholic teaching on contraception, well-known professor, Dr. Janet Smith, said that in her opinion, the poorly researched piece “was inaccurate and slanted from the beginning.” Read more…
Great article made even better by the fact that it features our very own Dr. Jennifer Morse!
It has been hailed as one of the greatest public health breakthroughs of the 20th century. It enjoys overwhelming approval in public opinion polls. But the ripple effects of the pill – approved for general use 50 years ago this weekend by the U.S. government – are still a hot topic of debate. Read more…
As mentioned in previous posts, Time Magazine is spotlighting America’s 50 Years on the Pill through somewhat rose-colored glasses. Really? No negative effects? Even sliced bread can’t compete with that prognosis.
As part of Dr J’s series on 50 Years of the Pill, we’ve included a podcast of her interview on Issues, Etc., where she discussed the topic. Has the Pill accomplished what its defenders promised? What other effects has it had on the way we view sex, fatherhood, babies, careers, and families?
This podcast is also available on our podcast feed or through iTunes.
Interesting. Verrrrrrrrry interesting. It only makes sense that there would be consequences to putting foreign chemically junk in your body, right?
Why does HIV/AIDS strike more women than men globally? Why is sub-Saharan Africa the home of the world’s largest heterosexual HIV/Aids epidemic? Why does Thailand have an HIV infection rate of over one-in-100 adults, while Japan’s rate is 0.01 per cent and the Philippines’ 0.02 per cent? One answer to these questions can be found in an article published this week by the Population Research Institute deeply implicating hormonal contraception in the AIDS epidemic. Read more…
Cristina Alarcon Holy Post
I met Martha a few years ago, a beautiful young woman. She started frequently visiting the pharmacy, nearly every month, just to purchase a home pregnancy kit. Her hands always trembled, and there was fear in her eyes. Finally I decided to ask her whether she was okay, if not, what was the matter. She looked at me tearfully and confided, “I don’t want to go through another abortion and if I get pregnant I know he will leave me.” Read more…
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