Because this information has been suppressed by the pharmaceutical companies all these years, does this mean sharp lawyers can start suing the hegonomy of the culture of life, including insurance companies,  pharmaceutical companies, drug store chains and the Planned Parenthoods of the world for liability arising out of the pain and suffering, personal injury, physical injury and death brought about by their negligence?

All drugs today have side effects. Commercials on TV promote drugs for everything that could go wrong with your body.At the end of every single commercial, they list all of the side effects. Why would anyone take anything? The health food store has many natural aids to fix depression , sore throat, high blood pressure problems,etc. That should be looked into first. After all.it comes from Gods garden

I also would like to add,folic acid is great to ward off some types of cancer. They(scientist have just discovered this one about a month ago.  Take this before it becomes a problem

In 1968, at the hospital I worked in the packet that contained birth control pills was a warning of possible cancer link. Soooooo.
Why so long to get this out and why drug companies continue to hide the truth.

Thanks for reminding me of something I’ve known for a long time.  I agree, something has to be done.  On my wife’s side of the family two different sisters have dealt with lumps and in one case the removal of both breasts.
Thanks again!

On Mr. Dowd’s comment:  Sharp lawyers should sue participants in the CULTURE OF DEATH, not the “Culture of Life”.  Advocates of abortion who have knowingly swept these findings (on the link between abortion and Breast Cancer) under the rug have much (many deaths?) to answer for.
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The pharmaceutical companies did no more to suppress this fact than did feminist or abortion-rights groups. The right to have all the facts is important to them only if they support their template.

I wish that the religious would stop trying to pretend that they care in the slightest about women and their health. In a society without birth control and legal abortion (you know, the third world,the place where the religious wish to add our country if they get their way), one of the major killers of women is complications due to pregnancy, usually from women who have gone through too many pregnancies without a break. In addition, in every society where abortion is illegal, it still occurs but the rich go abroad while the poor and middle class mutilate themselves and often die. Study after study has shown that woman gain full human rights, greater education, and become financially independent ONLY when they have access to quality birth control. So please, religious people, stop pretending that you view us as anything more than walking uteruses.

Alright Jennigirl, if anything proves how much the religious community has supported women and cared about them, it should be this study. It proves that they were correct in being against contraceptives and abortion. This study shows how much these things hurt. The religious do not have anything financially to gain by sharing this info, but the pharmaceutical companies and abortion industry do have something to lose (financially)!!!!  So who’s really on your side, the ones after your pocket book or the ones after your eternal salvation?

To mom of 5, first about your comment “the religious have nothing financially to gain” by denouncing birth control and abortion. Not to be cruel, but you are trying to kid me or just yourself? We know for a FACT that religiousity increases with poverty and lower levels of education, both of which increase with the number of children a woman has. You obviously have chosen to have a large family; fantastic for you as long as you can afford and nurture all of your children, but in much of the world women cannot do this with the 10-15 children who would be born during a marriage without birth control. What is the Church’s solution to this problem? Easy:celibate marriage. I don’t know about you, but I enjoy sex with my husband. I didn’t get married to be a nun. As for the “eternal salvation” issue, I’m more concerned with what we know for 100%, which is that children should be wanted and loved before they’re even conceived, and not be born into poverty and neglect.

jennygirl, study your science. That pill you take so “religiously” every day has the potential of killing any tiny new life within you. The chemicals cover the lining of your uterus, like a lethal dose of an anti-acid would cover the lining of your stomach, so that he or she (already determined by God – again study your science) is unable to cling to the safety of (Mommy’s), your, uterine wall—and dying—, is washed away with your next menses.  Remember that image the next time you have your period. And then contact your local or online NFP (Natural Family Planning) provider. Again science—NFP is more reliable than any form of artificial contraception except Abortion.  By the way, contraception is a word anti-life physicians abhor because of the prefix “contra” meaning “against” and ask yourself “against what?”. “Birth Control” is a euphemism. At your next doctor’s visit try using the word contraception instead of Birth Control and ask why you have to come back for a check-up every three months in order to get another contraceptive prescription. NFP’ers only have to go annually until they’re ready to Choose Life again. Loving you and praying for you that you will have “eyes to see and ears to hear”.

jennygirl, p.s. And we are chaste but we are definitely not celibate!

Dear JMJ2in1,first of all,I have no problem with the word “contraception”.At this point,yes,I am against the possibility of conceiving every time I have sex with my husband.We have 3 children and are in the process of adopting another.If I had given birth every year we have been married(sorry,but going a week every month without sex simply doesn’t work for us.If does for you,lovely,but each to his/her own)we would have 10 children by now and would not be able to give a homeless child a family.As for your belief that the Pill causes abortion,I understand where you’re coming from,but I don’t agree.A fertilized egg is not a fetus.I know it’s not popular opinion here,but a woman’s life is more important than a few cells.
I have one quick question:if the issue is about hormones and cancer risk as this article claims,what about tubals and vasectomies?They are safe,quick,and without artifical hormones.If you are against nonhormonal forms of bc then the issue is simply control of women’s bodies.Peace.

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I’m still waiting for a response to the question about nonhormonal forms of birth control. If anyone is opposed to these (tubals, vasectomies, condoms, etc.) then please present some reason OTHER THAN this is simply what the Church teaches. Please present a SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL reason why you do not support the use of these life saving and enhancing devices.Realize that one of the leading causes of death in the third world is complications of pregnancy, often due to too closely spaced pregnancies and births. Thank you in advance.

There is breast cancer link to birth control and abortion.  Sex has consequences-physical, emotional, relational, sexually transmitted diseases/exposure.  We must take care of each other.  There is natural family planning for married couples that is safe for women and women feel valued.  No one would volunteer for poisoning, chemical injections in the heart, pulled apart in pieces, vacuumed in pieces, slit on back of heads, etc and if survive left to die so no one should volunteer innocent children.  It is a natural instinct for parents to protect their children.  Enough lies and coercion and exploitation of women and daily killings, over 3,300 daily, of children, over 50 million since 1973, none will ever be justified.  Just like slavery legal and wrong so is abortion.

Tubals and vasectomies, simply put, contribute toward the attitude that people are objects that can be used for pleasure, not as persons deserving only of love.  I can’t tell you the number of people who remark that my husband and I have such a great marriage, that we seem so happy, that we are so lucky, etc. etc.  Why?  It’s not because we are just super lucky or something.  It’s because when he looks at me, he’s not thinking of me as an object of his pleasure, or as someTHING that makes him feel good, but as someONE who deserves love, respect, etc.  The attitude that people are mere objects to be used for pleasure is what contributes, more than anything, to the divorce rate in our country.  If I think that your purpose in my life is to make me feel good, and then I find someone else who has “better moves,” should I leave you for them?  Wouldn’t it be better if I loved you for WHO YOU ARE AS A PERSON, not just for how you make me feel in bed?  Pleasure comes and goes… true love is forever.

Dear Natalie, thank you for responding to my question and, while I am happy that periodic abstinence is working in your marriage, please know that for the majority of people (including the majority of Catholics)this type of marriage simply would lead not to a more loving, deeper relationship but to frustration and possibly cheating. A strong, healthy sex life often bonds a couple and makes the marriage stronger and provides for more communication. You seem to feel that sex desire in some way devalues the person and objectifies him/her; I believe the exact opposite. A man who looks at his wife with lust and desire is a man who is very happily married and vice versa. My husband and I have been married for ten years, have daily contact, and our marriage is the envy of everyone we know, so that is what works for us. I’m not saying that others should follow that, but that everyone must works with what works in their own marriage.

As for your belief that contraception has increased the divorce rate, I suppose in some round about way you have a point, but not for the reason that you believe. With fewer children, a woman can become educated, more independent, have a job, and not have to live with abuse or neglect that she would otherwise have to deal with if she had ten children at home, little to no education and job skills, etc. Fewer children have also allowed men to stay with their wives not out of guilt but out of love and respect. An independent wife also allows the husband more freedom to be pursue happiness himself, the children to be better educated and loved,and not to have the burden of the support of the entire family on his back. Are modern marriages perfect? Not by a longshot, but nothing human is. The point is that a woman who is using birth control often becomes more of an equal partner in her relationship rather than an adult child.

I am already educated, and I contribute to the support of our family by working/teaching from home.  I do not feel in any way that my children are somehow holding me back… rather, they contribute toward my enrichment and growth as a person… as a woman… as an equal with my husband.  I have difficult pregnancies and so we have a good reason for spacing our children as we do… but whether I had one child or ten, it wouldn’t matter. You may find it interesting that couples practicing NFP have a LESS THAN 1 PERCENT divorce rate… again, I believe (and the feedback from these couples is consistent) that it is because they have learned that there is so much more to marriage and to love than just sex.  Oh yes, sex is so very beautiful, wonderful, and essential to marriage!  But the attitude a couple has toward it IS so critical toward the development of their lasting love… not just “love” that lasts while the sex is good.

I do NOT believe that the sex drive devalues a person in any way.  But, if my husband were to approach me merely with the desire for what I can do for him, or make him feel, THEN I would feel devalued… an object… not a person.  What would the difference be, then, between me and a sex toy?  Or why shouldn’t I just go get a “battery-operated boyfriend” if he’s not “pleasing” me?  What would that tell him?  That I think he’s less desireable than a piece of plastic?  The sex drive is an intrinsic part of every person, but it is very clearly not something to be used at will.  Isn’t this why we imprison rapists?  Because they have (wrongly) believed that they can use another person as a sex object?  Mutual objectifying does not make it much more “right.”  And what would happen if you got sick for a long time and couldn’t be intimate with your husband? Do you think he, who has not had to practice self-control, would suddenly practice self-control until you were well?  Or, especially if this were a very lengthy time, do you think he might be tempted to find someone else to satisfy his desires?

Also, you seem to suggest that we don’t have a strong and healthy sex life b/c we abstain part of the month… we do!! :)  In fact, that honeymoon period each month is particularly amazing. :) Most couples who practice NFP feel the same way.

for thous of us who make to much testosterone and cant cycle without the pill, will not stop taking. the fact that we are not cycling rases cancer concerns as well, and will happen much sooner then thous caused by the pill down the road.

Nice. As a medical student i got something from this blog. Thanks for writing something on this topic

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women and the second leading cause of cancer deaths after lung cancer for women in the United States.
Every year, 1.3 million women in the world are diagnosed with the disease, which takes the lives of 465,000 annually around the world, according to the American Cancer Society.

Early detection by physical breast examination and mammography are the most important tools in the fight against the disease.

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To the person who wanted scientific data about why tubal ligation and other forms of sterilization are not healthy, check out John R. Lee, M.D.‘s work, e.g. What Your Doctor Might not Tell you about Perimenopause.  Basically, when women’s natural ovulation process is interrupted, it has serious hormonal implications on her entire system.

Also, I have read that vasectomies increase the risk of autoimmune conditions such as allergies, etc., because the men’s bodies have to re-absorb the sperm and this causes it to start attacking itself.

TNM is another staging system doctors use to provide more details about how the cancer looks, how it grows, how aggressive it is etc. Doctors normally use the number staging system but they might mention the TNM staging to describe breast cancer.Breast Cancer Symptoms

“Naturally occurring estrogen and progesterone have been found to influence the development and growth of some cancers. Because birth control pills contain female hormones, researchers have been interested in determining whether there is any link between these widely used contraceptives and cancer risk.

The results of population studies to examine associations between oral contraceptive use and cancer risk have not always been consistent. Overall, however, the risks of endometrial and ovarian cancer appear to be reduced with the use of oral contraceptives, whereas the risks of breast, cervical, and liver cancer appear to be increased (1). A summary of research results for each type of cancer is given below.”

~Oral Contraceptives and Cancer Risk by National Cancer Institute~

In short, yes it increases the risk of some types of cancer, but also decreases the risk of others. The claim that birth control causes cancer is as ridiculous as the claim it prevents it. It is a trade off.

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