CONTRACEPTION
Some dictionaries simply define contraception as ‘birth control.’ Planned Parenthood’s website says “birth control is how you prevent pregnancy before it begins,” which is certainly not accurate. As you’ll discover, some contraception methods end a human life after your child is conceived.
This may be the most important information you ever read. Your health, even your life, and especially the life of your future child, depends on your willingness to be informed on what you put in your body.
This information is based on far-ranging scientific studies, for which we provide attribution. In other words, the real risk contraception poses to your health and life isn’t based on opinion. It is based on science.
KINDS OF HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION
- Combined estrogen/progestin: These formulations use two types of artificial hormones, estrogen and progestin, to disrupt the normal healthy functioning of a woman’s fertility cycle. The most common forms of these preparations are orally ingested pills taken daily, such as Lo Ovral, Loestrin, Yaz®, and Seasonique; patches changed weekly such as Ortho Evra; and vaginal rings worn 3 weeks, then out for 1 week, such as NuvaRing®.
- Progestin only: These formulations do not contain any estrogen. Rather, they have only one of several types of progestin, which can be taken either orally; by injection; via implants worn under the skin for three years, such as Implanon; or via an intrauterine device worn up to three years, such as Mirena®.
How contraception works
Hormonal contraceptives disrupt your fertility using three recognized mechanisms, according to FDA labeling for Mirena®, NuvaRing®, Ortho Evra, Ortho-Cyclen, and Seasonique:
- They prevent ovulation, which is the release of an egg from the ovary into the fallopian tube.
- They cause mucus in the cervix to change so that if sperm reaches the cervix, it is more difficult for them to enter.
- They thin the lining of the uterus so that if the first two actions fail and a new human being is created, the baby will die before he/she can attach to the lining of the uterus.
Is it safe?
- The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified combined hormonal contraceptives as Group 1 carcinogens.
- Side effects include susceptibility to the AIDS virus since the Pill weakens your immune system.
- WHO research also identifies an increased risk of cervical/breast cancers, stroke, blood clots, death, heart attack, liver cancer, ectopic pregnancy, and infertility for women using hormonal contraceptives.
- It provides no protection against sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs).
Studies
- Women who started hormonal contraception before age 18 have a 90% increased risk for breast cancer and a 370% increased risk for “triple negative” breast cancer.
- Women who use hormonal contraceptives before their 1st birth have a 44% increased risk of breast cancer.2
- Women who use contraceptives 11 years or longer are at a 210% increased risk of breast cancer. (By contrast, smoking ‘only’ increases the risk of breast cancer by 25%.)3
Definitions
FERTILIZATION is when a unique human life begins. This ‘conception’ process begins when a sperm penetrates an oocyte, creating a brand new human life.
IMPLANTATION is the attachment process of the now 5 to 7 day old baby to the lining of his/her mother’s uterus.
Science states that human life begins at fertilization. The pill prevents this developing human from implanting in the lining of the uterus, effectively aborting your child’s life.
Is the Pill effective?
No. It is important for you to understand its significant failure rate.
Planned Parenthood’s website describes the Pill’s effectiveness this way:
“When used perfectly, the pill is 99% effective. But when it comes to real life, the pill is about 91% effective because it can be hard to be perfect.”
As reported in the New York Times, for typical use, 61 out of 100 women who use the pill become pregnant within a decade. The Times' cited research by James Trussell, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton’s Office of Population Research. He described ‘typical use’ like this:
“This is the norm, reflecting the effectiveness of each method for the average couple who do not always use it correctly or consistently.”
Projecting this lack of effectiveness over time, the fail rate hits 38% by year five before ballooning to 61% by year ten.
Can you count on the Pill to do what it says it will do? You be the judge. Are you perfect?
EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION
What is the “Morning After Pill” (MAP)?
The Morning After Pill contains a high dosage of the hormone progestin, and when used as directed, prevents or ends pregnancy. It is marketed as an “emergency contraceptive.” It is also known as Plan B.
How is MAP taken?
It is designed to be taken in two doses. The first pill is supposed to be taken within the first 72 hours after intercourse, followed by the second pill 12 hours later.
How does MAP work?
Here is what it does to your body:
•Suppresses ovulation (female egg production in the ovary).
•Thickens mucus in your cervix which blocks sperm passage.
•Irritates your uterus lining, making it hostile to implantation, resulting
in abortion.
So, is MAP contraception or abortion?
Yes. You’re never sure, because MAP works as a contraceptive by suppressing ovulation. However, if you have conceived, it effectively ends the life of your child, as described above. That’s why the chemicals in morning-after pills (high-dosages of the hormone progestin) are properly identified as “abortifacients.”
Hold on, the FDA and Planned Parenthood say that MAP is not an abortifacient.
What gives?
When does human life begin? Check out highly regarded textbooks on embryology.4,5,6 They say it is when the sperm and ovum, neither of which can sustain life or direct growth by itself, come together at fertilization. For the first time the new life has all 46 chromosomes and all the directions (DNA) it needs for the rest of life. The sex of the baby, the color of the hair, everything is already fixed.
The FDA and Planned Parenthood simply redefined the beginning of life from fertilization to implantation, which occurs about a week after conception. This redefinition of when human life begins was based on political and economic considerations, not biological or ethical ones.
WHAT ARE THE health risks OF MAP?
When conception has taken place, MAP is typically fatal to your child. However, in the rush to make the morning after pill available, studies to determine the risks of long term and repeated use of heavy doses of progestin to YOUR body were not carried out. As pointed out previously in this Resource Book for Women, even low doses present health risks to women, according to the United Nation’s World Health Organization.
In addition, you may experience these additional side effects:
- Heavier menstrual bleeding
- Nausea
- Fatigue
- HeadacheDizziness
Will MAP protect me from sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)?
No.
Birth Control Can Cause Blood Clots
Using estrogen-based birth control (pills, patches, and rings) comes with a risk of blood clots, though it’s relatively small. The overwhelming majority of women on birth control pills do not have problems.
But, it’s important to note that smoking, being obese, or having a family history of clotting disorders while you’re taking estrogen can all increase the risk.
Is RU-486 Safe?
In this type of non-surgical abortion the first pill called mifepristone is given at the Planned Parenthood or other abortion clinic and is used up until 9 weeks of pregnancy. Mifepristone counteracts the natural pregnancy hormone progesterone, which is critical to maintaining a pregnancy. Without progesterone the placenta fails, cutting off oxygen and nutrition to the baby, resulting in his/her death. The patient leaves the clinic after the first pill and is instructed to take the second pill, misoprostol, 36 to 72 hours later. Misoprostol causes the contractions which will then expel the dead baby within several hours or a few days. RU-486 is advertised as a very safe abortion method, but when a San Francisco abortion clinic administered the pill to 18-year-old Holly Patterson, she suffered the ultimate abortion complication. Holly died a week later from a massive infection as a result of fragments of the fetus left inside her uterus which caused her to go into septic shock.
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When Does Life Begin?
Science teaches without reservation that life begins at fertilization (conception). It is a scientific fact that an organism exists after fertilization that did not exist before. This new organism has its own DNA distinct from the mother and father, meaning that it is a unique person. As the embryo grows, it develops a heartbeat (22 days after fertilization), its own circulatory system, and its own organs. From fertilization, it is a new organism that is alive and will continue to grow and develop as long as nutrition is provided and its life is not ended through violence or illness.
Artistic metal representation of DNA double-helix structure.
It is indisputably human, as it has human DNA.
The offspring of two members of a species is always the same type of creature as the parents. No two dogs will ever conceive and give birth to a cat; no fish egg will ever produce a snake. According to all the laws of nature, the preborn baby is human.
Scientific textbooks proclaim this fact. Keith L. Moore’s The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology (7th edition, Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2003) states the following:
A zygote [fertilized egg] is the beginning of a new human being. Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete … unites with a female gamete or oocyte … to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.
“Zygote” is a scientific term for the new life that is created when the sperm and the egg combine. “Oocyte” is another term for the egg cell, the cell released by woman’s ovary, which travels down the Fallopian tube and is fertilized by the male sperm.
The author of this scientific textbook, Keith L. Moore, is a world-renowned embryologist. He has written a number of definitive books on embryology, and his scientific knowledge and experience are vast and beyond reproach. Few medical students can complete their careers without studying from his textbooks.
Moore puts it even more plainly in Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology (7thedition, Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2008, p. 2):
[The zygote], formed by the union of an oocyte and a sperm, is the beginning of a new human being.
Here is an example from another scientific work.
From Human Embryology & Teratology (Ronan R. O’Rahilly, Fabiola Muller [New York: Wiley-Liss, 1996], 5-55):
Fertilization is an important landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed[.]
This third embryology textbook is as clear as the first two – fertilization is the beginning of new life and the start of a new, distinct human organism.
From T.W. Sadler, Langman’s Medical Embryology (10th edition, Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006, p. 11):
Development begins with fertilization, the process by which the male gamete, the sperm, and the femal gamete, the oocyte, unite to give rise to a zygote.
And in another source (Ronan O’Rahilly and Fabiola Miller, Human Embryology and Teratology [3rd edition, New York: Wiley-Liss, 2001, p. 8]):
Although life is a continuous process, fertilization … is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new genetically distinct human organism is formed when the chromosomes of the male and female pronuclei blend in the oocyte.
What is the “Morning After Pill” (MAP)?
The Morning After Pill contains a high dosage of the hormone progestin, and when used as directed, prevents or ends pregnancy. It is marketed as an “emergency contraceptive.” It is also known as Plan B.
How is MAP taken?
It is designed to be taken in two doses. The first pill is supposed to be taken within the first 72 hours after intercourse, followed by the second pill 12 hours later.
How does MAP work?
Here is what it does to your body:
•Suppresses ovulation (female egg production in the ovary).
•Thickens mucus in your cervix which blocks sperm passage.
•Irritates your uterus lining, making it hostile to implantation, resulting
in abortion.
So, is MAP contraception or abortion?
Yes. You’re never sure, because MAP works as a contraceptive by suppressing ovulation. However, if you have conceived, it effectively ends the life of your child, as described above. That’s why the chemicals in morning-after pills (high-dosages of the hormone progestin) are properly identified as “abortifacients.”
Hold on, the FDA and Planned Parenthood say that MAP is not an abortifacient.
What gives?
When does human life begin? Check out highly regarded textbooks on embryology.4,5,6 They say it is when the sperm and ovum, neither of which can sustain life or direct growth by itself, come together at fertilization. For the first time the new life has all 46 chromosomes and all the directions (DNA) it needs for the rest of life. The sex of the baby, the color of the hair, everything is already fixed.
The FDA and Planned Parenthood simply redefined the beginning of life from fertilization to implantation, which occurs about a week after conception. This redefinition of when human life begins was based on political and economic considerations, not biological or ethical ones.
WHAT ARE THE health risks OF MAP?
When conception has taken place, MAP is typically fatal to your child. However, in the rush to make the morning after pill available, studies to determine the risks of long term and repeated use of heavy doses of progestin to YOUR body were not carried out. As pointed out previously in this Resource Book for Women, even low doses present health risks to women, according to the United Nation’s World Health Organization.
Click on the article below for proof that the morning after bill IS in fact an abortifacient and does in fact end a unique human being.
Is The Pill Effective?
No. It is important for you to understand its significant failure rate.
Planned Parenthood’s website describes the Pill’s effectiveness this way:
“When used perfectly, the pill is 99% effective. But when it comes to real life, the pill is about 91% effective because it can be hard to be perfect.”
As reported in the New York Times, for typical use, 61 out of 100 women who use the pill become pregnant within a decade. The Times' cited research by James Trussell, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton’s Office of Population Research. He described ‘typical use’ like this:
“This is the norm, reflecting the effectiveness of each method for the average couple who do not always use it correctly or consistently.”
Projecting this lack of effectiveness over time, the fail rate hits 38% by year five before ballooning to 61% by year ten.
Can you count on the Pill to do what it says it will do? You be the judge. Are you perfect?
Is the Pill Safe?
- The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified combined hormonal contraceptives as Group 1 carcinogens.
- Side effects include susceptibility to the AIDS virus since the Pill weakens your immune system.
- WHO research also identifies an increased risk of cervical/breast cancers, stroke, blood clots, death, heart attack, liver cancer, ectopic pregnancy, and infertility for women using hormonal contraceptives.
- It provides no protection against sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs).
Studies
- Women who started hormonal contraception before age 18 have a 90% increased risk for breast cancer and a 370% increased risk for “triple negative” breast cancer.1
- Women who use hormonal contraceptives before their 1st birth have a 44% increased risk of breast cancer.2
- Women who use contraceptives 11 years or longer are at a 210% increased risk of breast cancer. (By contrast, smoking ‘only’ increases the risk of breast cancer by 25%.)3
Proven Risks and Side Effects of Contraceptives
- Increased frequency of blood clots
- Increased frequency of high blood pressure
- Increased frequency of migraines
- Increased frequency of depression
- Increased frequency of breast cancer
- Increased frequency of contracting and transmitting HIV
- Loss of libido
Does the Pill Cause Breast Cancer?
Scientific medical studies have identified a link between the use of artificial hormones and breast cancer. In 2005, the World Health Organization classified oral contraceptives as a Group 1 carcinogen, along with tobacco, arsenic, and asbestos, the most dangerous classification known.7
Likewise, a comprehensive meta-analysis8 published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings in October 2006 found that 21 out of 23 retrospective studies done since 1980 showed that women who took oral contraceptives prior to the birth of their first child sustained a 44% average increased risk of developing pre-menopausal breast cancer. This risk rose to 52% for women who took the Pill for at least four years prior to the birth of their first child.
How could the Pill increase my risk of breast cancer?
Birth control pills are made from synthetic estrogens and/or progestins. Experiments have shown that these hormones cause women’s breast cells to divide more rapidly.9 Cells that divide more rapidly are more prone to develop into cancer cells.
Teenage girls are especially vulnerable to breast cancer risk since their breasts are growing. Most have not yet developed cancer-resistant Type 3 lobules through a full-term pregnancy, making them especially susceptible to the cancer-causing potential of contraceptive steroids (birth control pills).
Is the Pill a Steroid?
Yes. Steroids are banned for professional athletes because they’re dangerous to their health.
The dangerous performance enhancing steroids taken by athletes are male steroid hormonal drugs that build muscle. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, risks associated with their use include liver cancer, kidney disease, enlarged heart, high blood pressure, and increased risk of stroke and heart attack, even in the young.
Similarly, female steroid hormonal drugs build breast tissue. Like male steroid hormonal drugs, the risks are serious and include increased danger of breast cancer (see above), and even liver and cervical cancers.
An article in Scientific American10 reports on studies that birth control pills even appear to remodel brain structure in women.