The Sexual Revolutionaries are predictably upset by the recent Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby. So this is a good time to consider
the question of whether contraception really is health care in any meaningful sense. Hormonal contraception interrupts a perfectly natural process
in perfectly healthy women. Pregnancy is not an illness or injury or disease. Preventing pregnancy can be accomplished in a number of ways. Over
the next few days, I am going to talk about some of the health risks associated with hormonal contraception. Let’s start with a few cases from the
United Kingdom. Charlotte Porter died from a blood clot when she was 16.
Trudi Banning, a 22 year old “super-fit” female soldier, was stricken with a stroke that created gangrene in her digestive system, and ultimately left
her infertile. What do these British women have in common? They were taking the so-called “third generation” of birth control pills, such as Femodene
and Dianette. These women are hoping to sue American manufacturers of these “Third Generation” hormonal contraceptives. The bitter irony for
Trudi is that she was an 18 year old virgin when she entered the army and was put on contraception. She says, ‘The Army didn’t want girls getting
pregnant, and
although I wasn’t having sex with anyone then anyway, I didn’t question their authority.’ She also suffers from memory problems and has been
left with a permanent blood-clotting disorder that needs constant treatment with medication. Another British woman, Nancy Berry, died at the age of
16. She had been on Femodene for a month, with her mother’s blessing, in the hope it would help with her painful periods. Mrs. Berry, her husband and
son, watched helplessly, as Nancy died of a heart attack in intensive care. According to the Daily Mail:
(JRM comments in italics.)
The American-owned manufacturer MSD, which makes Marvelon and Mercilon, says blood clots are a known risk Known to whom? The actual women making the decision? but
stresses that the risk of blood clots in pregnancy is many times higher. Irrelevant. The relevant comparison is between using the drug and doing something else, like not having sex, or using natural family planning methods. ‘Some
combined hormonal contraceptives suit some women better than others,’ no duh a company spokesman says…. Bayer, which makes Dianette
and Femodene, says: ‘The benefits of combined hormonal contraceptives outweigh the risks. I feel so much better, knowing the drug companies think it is safe.
The Daily Mail continues:
Last year an inquiry was launched by the European Medicines Agency, which regulates drug use in Britain and Europe, into another third generation pill,
Dianette. Prescribed as an anti-acne treatment but also used as a contraceptive by 62,000 women in the UK, it has been linked to 31 deaths in this
country since its launch in 1983. It was suspended from sale in France last year pending investigations into seven deaths there, and there were calls
to extend the ban to the UK – but regulators decided the benefits of the drug in treating acne outweighed the risks, and it is still on the market.
Hello? A drug that has been linked to 31 deaths is still on the market because it helps acne?!?!?! Only the Sexual Revolutionary ideology could justify
this kind of mismatch between risks and rewards. That, and the profit motive. The Revolutionaries wish to create a world in which sex does not make babies.
Hence they need for The Pill to be safe. Their Grand Narrative requires it. Trudi Banning and her friends in the UK are hoping to sue Big Pharma
for damages. Or at the very least, for more accurate information: ‘I would love to have one chance at last to stand up in court and tell the world what
happened to me and probably to thousands of women like me,’ she says. The Daily Mail in the UK wants to know: “Have 800 women been killed by the Pill?”I want to know: Why did the US government insist that every employer in America provide potentially dangerous, chemical contraception to perfectly healthy
women? And why was the Hobby Lobby case even a 5-4 close call? Millions of people have been victimized by the Sexual Revolution. If you are fed up and want to work for positive change, join the Ruth Institute. No one else is Inspiring the Survivors of the Sexual Revolution the way we are.
