in defense of womanhood

My response on a facebook discussion recently If anyone here cares, please just go get a package insert for birth control. Really. "The use of oral contraceptives is associated with increased risks of several serious conditions including myocardial infarction, thromboembolism, stroke, hepatic neoplasia, and gallbladder disease, although the risk of serious morbidity or mortality is very small in healthy women without underlying risk factors. The risk of morbidity and mortality increases significantly in the presence of other underlying risk factors such as hypertension, hyperlipidemias, obesity and diabetes." One paragraph later, this piece goes on to state: "The effect of long-term use of the oral contraceptives with lower formulations of both estrogens and progestogens remains to be determined." It then goes on for about 8 pages to enumerate the possible negative effects. This comes right fromt he FDA: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2005/021690lbl.pdf I work in an ER and most of the unintended pregnancies I have seen happen while on the pill. It gives women a false sense of security and makes them and their obgyns lazy about learning what their bodies are doing and why. Furthermore, many of those abortions that someone mentioned earlier as a reason to support birth control happen exactly because birth control failed! 1.5million abortions DOES NOT sound like birth control is actually doing it's job. kids are stupid but there's no way you can convice me that even a majority of those are teen pregnancies from kids who didn't know hat they were doing. This is not a new issue, either. birth control and abortion have both been around for thousands of years, and Christians have been against it right from the start...with one early Creed stating that people would not use birth control. Ancient Rome and Greece, the pinnacles of civilization, frowned on abortion only because they didn't know the sex of the baby or if it was defective. they were all for infanticide. I personally don't see a difference between in the womb andout of the womb. If you can kill it inside,you should be able to kill it outside. It's just a mater of geography, and geography should not dictate ethics. It's perfectly legal for a 28 week (6 month) abortion to take place...but I've seen babies who have lived and are born at 24 weeks. As for Catholics and cancer rates, I don't think anyone has studied that. In any case, a large percentage of those who consider themselves Catholic use birth control and go directly against the teaching of the church. We do know that those who use natural forms of "family planning" such as the Creighton System or the Billings Model are more effective than the pill, right about 98.5% if I recall correctly. One of these methods is even accepted by China as a method of enforcing their 1 child policy! p.s. the "brainless blob of cells" argument is horribly out-dated. it's really bad science and most intellectuals realize that now. heartbeat on day 21-22 after conception (that is after the sperm and egg become one, not when implantation occurs) and it has been my experience that the heart rarely does that sort of thing wihtout a brain around. so what if it aint fully developed yet...doesn't stop developing until you are in your 20s anyhow. As a medical person, I think that the cancer risk from oral birth control is more than most people realize, and so are the other bad effects, most especially the infamous headaches. (so she's not fertile but her head hurts to much to make love...sounds like a loose-loose situation to me). I'm against it more or less because it is tearing women apart and demeaning both sexes to a terribly great extent. It makes women the slaves of men so that she is now available for his pleasure any old time. He doesn't need to be responsible for her either because he can just leave....no hard feelings...no kid int he picture any way.