Yet Another Reason to Avoid Hormonal Birth Control
This story makes me sad. A 22-year-old mother of one died from a blood clot in her lung which may have been caused by the hormonal birth control method she was using (NuvaRing).
Hormonal birth control methods (ALL of them, as far as I understand--every brand and variety), as well as IUDs (both hormonal and copper) have the potential to prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg in a woman's uterus. If life begins at conception (and I believe it does), then that is abortion.
Here are a couple of informative sites:
A Short Condensation of Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions?
The Pill Kills
6 comments:
So sad, but I am thankful for articles that do get the info out there. The health risks (even aside from inadvertent/possible abortions) of hormonal bc are not a very popular thing to publicise, when it shakes the foundation of what we've made "normal." :(
Ash
I really do not agree with your article. I am a Christian stay at home mom and I have an IUD called Mirena. The risks are minimal and my husband wouldn't have let me put something in my body that would hurt me, nor my doctor. Yes, you can have an ectopic pregnancy but it is a very small percentage. In fact my doctor said two women have gotten pregnant while using Mirena and they had completely normal pregnancies and the babies were healthy & happy. I have researched every possible form of birth control. I agree about the pill and did not want to take it. I believe God when he said to be fruitful and multiply but he also told us to use common sense when having children. I would like to have more children but not right away so that is why my husband and I decided on the IUD. We had prayed about it and felt peace so we decided I could get it. I am not upset I just wanted you to see the other side of the IUD, they are not all bad. I love your blog by the way!
Wonderful post!
More women...husbands too, need to read the truth about this subject!
What's even scarier is how many teenage girls are on the pill, the patch, IUD, etc! That can have long term ill effects on her still growing body. :-(
Oh that more doctors and nurses would not hand these poisions out like candy, but inform their patinets of the dangers as well.
Sarah--Here is an excerpt from the physician's instructions for the Mirena:
Studies of Mirena prototypes have suggested several mechanisms that prevent pregnancy: thickening of cervical mucus preventing passage of sperm into the uterus, inhibition of sperm capacitation or survival, and alteration of the endometrium.
It's the "alteration of the endometrium" part that ethically concerns me. Since I believe that life begins at conception, I would not personally use an IUD because there is the possibility of it preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.
I'm not going to argue with you about when life begins, but I did want you to know that only combination hormonal birth control (those with both estrogen and progesterone) prevent implantation. Progesterone only birth control (like the mini pill or Depo Provera) inhibits ovulation and thickens cervical mucus but does nothing for implantation. FYI.
Molly--no, that is incorrect.
Here is information for a couple brands of progestin-only mini-pills:
Nora-BE (norethindrone)
Nora-BE progestin-only oral contraceptives prevent contraception by suppressing ovulation in approximately half of users, thickening the cervical mucus to inhibit sperm penetration, lowering the mid-cycle LH and FSH peaks, slowing the movement of the ovum through the fallopian tubes, and altering the endometrium [emphasis added].
http://www.contracept.org/docs/Nora-BE-labeling.pdf
Ovrette (norgestrel)
Progestin-only oral contraceptives such as OVRETTE prevent conception by suppressing ovulation in approximately half of users, thickening the cervical mucus to inhibit sperm penetration, lowering the midcycle LH and FSH peaks, slowing the movement of the ovum through the fallopian tubes, and altering the endometrium [emphasis added].
http://www.druglib.com/druginfo/ovrette/pharmacology/
There are several other brands of progestin-only mini-pills, but they all work the same way.
And regarding Depo Provera:
DEPO-PROVERA CI (medroxyprogesterone acetate), when administered at the recommended dose to women every 3 months, inhibits the secretion of gonadotropins which, in turn, prevents follicular maturation and ovulation and results in endometrial thinning [emphasis added]. These actions produce its contraceptive effect.
http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/depoprovera_cp.htm
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