Earlier, in a thread about birth control when the question of weighing the risks of pregnancy in choosing whether to use birth control came up, one commenter said:
It’s one thing to be aware of the risks of pregnancy – and more importantly how best to look after your health and diet to minimise any health complications you might suffer – but it’s quite another to try and scare women out of having children.
My grand-aunt delivered her own baby. In the dark.
I came across this short video tonight on maternal mortality, which pretty effectively communicated that there’s more to weighing the risks of pregnancy than scare-mongering. A lot of other women gave birth in the dark by themselves and died.
Cyn 10:51 pm on December 22, 2009 Permalink |
This bears repeating: The birth control pill, Yaz, has been linked to a number of adverse reactions, including strokes and lawsuits are growing over these issues. Here is some good information: http://www.yaz-may-cause-strokes.com/
raffaelo 6:29 pm on February 14, 2010 Permalink |
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willow 1:07 pm on February 16, 2010 Permalink |
You talk like chemical birth control is the only BC option out there, John. I lost so much bone mass when my doc put me on depo provera that I am a full quarter inch shorter today than I was before. Needless to say I will never touch the stuff again, or anything like it. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of safe non-chemical birth control alternatives.
Don’t make this into a false either-or choice between chemical BC and death in childbirth. Women have the right to demand a higher standard of care (the history of the chemical birth control vetting process is extremely sketchy and lawsuits are common to this day) than what they get now. Notice that the *male* birth control pill has not yet made it out of the FDA, irony of ironies, though plenty of female bcps and bcis have been rushed through with tragic results. Being critical of that disparity is not the same as condemning the whole enterprise. Chemical birth control needs a much, much better vetting process before it can truly be called safe.
johnpi 9:04 pm on February 16, 2010 Permalink |
I’m not seeing where I presented a strong or exclusive case for chemical birth control means – perhaps from one of the sources linked (Heather Corinna or the video above).
The points you make here about chemical risks should be a part of any birth control decision, and so I’m glad you weighed in on it. The safest, easiest form of birth control is a condom.