The following comes from an Aug. 4 story on LifeSiteNews.
A study of 1,102 women has found that use of several kinds of birth control pills was linked to greater chances of developing breast cancer.
In a press release provided to LifeSiteNews by the American Association for Cancer Research, the study’s authors found that high-dose estrogen pills “increased breast cancer risk 2.7-fold,” while “those containing moderate-dose estrogen increased the risk 1.6-fold.”
Likewise, “pills containing ethynodiol diacetate” – such as Zovia and Demulen – “increased the risk 2.6-fold, and triphasic combination pills” – like Ortho Tri-Cyclen, Tri-Levien, and Triphasi – “containing an average of 0.75 milligrams of norethindrone increased the risk 3.1-fold.”
Pills with low doses of estrogen were not found to increase the risk of breast cancer.
The study found that recent use of oral contraceptives increased the risk of breast cancer by 50 percent when compared with those who have never used the birth control pills or are no longer using them.
Unlike a majority of other studies of the link between birth control pills and breast cancer, Beaber and her fellow authors did not rely on self-reporting or recall by women about their use of birth control. Instead, they used electronic pharmacy records to gather detailed information on the study participants.
The study, which was funded by the National Cancer Institute, is just the latest linking birth control pills to cancer and other ills. A report earlier this year found that chemicals in contraceptives are causing the feminization of male fish in Spain.
In 2013, a study found that using birth control for at least three years led to a greater chance of getting glaucoma. Teen girls who use contraceptives were found to have increased blood pressure in an Australian study done in 2012, and a Denmark study released earlier this year found birth control pills may damage the fertility of women who use them….
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The connection between contraception and abortion, and breast cancer, has been long established:
http://www.polycarp.org
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/index/
This is scientific proof that the Democratic Party – whose central tenets are contraception, abortion, and sodomy – has been waging a war on women all these years!
juergensen yes I agree. It is a known fact for many years and also it causes other unpleasant side affects. They don’t always work either, some people still became pregnant, they don’t prevent diseases either. They also work like abortifacients. Those are enough reasons to be concerned with. They cause havoc to your well being as one ages too. Poor liver, kidneys etc having to filter those pills for years and years…women need to understand how hormones affect ones well being especially artificial hormones and such.
But morally, women who use birth control pills, are walking on thin ice spiritually. It is morally wrong and offensive to the dignity of women and to men. Especially now, where more younger girls are being pushed into taking them or at least introduced into taking them. The drug companies make tons of money.
I feel that it is a slap in the face to our Lord, when women use immoral birth control methods for controlling conception. The church has always warned women on the outcome of those choices and why they are immoral.
Having an abortion also increases risk of breast cancer. Another fact they don’t tell you at Planned Parenthood.
…..neither in the leftist media.
All in the name of comprehensive health care for women.
The Democratic Party continues to be the ‘Party of Death’ – death of the body and more importantly – death of the Soul.
Men, if you care about your wives, mothers, daughters and sisters–share this information with them–you could save their lives.
Yes, CiCi, young women who have an abortion increase their risk of breast cancer substantially…..thankfully, if they do have a baby later and breastfeed they can reverse their risk.
There is an old maxim: YOU CANNOT FOOL MOTHER NATURE. When we play Frankenstein with our bodies, with plants and animals, bad things happen. God made everything PERFECT. It is the devil, sin and mankind that makes things evil and imperfect.
Bravo Father Karl beautifully said!
Thank you Father Karl…..we need to be reminded.
Thanks for reporting the truth. The media will not report anything that does not support liberal views. Abortion and the pill are called women’s “health care”. It should be reported as destroying womens health!! That is in fact the real war on women!!
Using safer methods of birth control would be preferable, as no one is going back to the old days of “surprise” rythym method babies. In today’s world, Catholic couples do a much better job planning their families, rather than gambling that only one or two children will result from natural family planning. Our parents did the gambling, and the end result were children who were not wanted, overstressed parents with health, emotional and financial strains, and driven into early graves.. The Vatican is wrong on this one. Most priests in the US disagree with Humanae Vitae, as do about 85% of US Catholics.
The evil of abortion must be wiped out, but responsible family planning reduces the number of abortions and what’s wrong with that?
another anonymous you made me do it, I had to combat your misleading words by my other posts…the truth is not in your anonymous comments but they are with Christ’s church (and to others who wish to honor the natural law) and those who have the zeal, love, devotion to honor our beloved Jesus, will do so and correct any misleading ideals in which they have been introduced to. I understand that some were given or even indoctrinated in sinful ideals but because Jesus, our salvation, is so merciful, that His truths and ways are eventually known so mankind can and will eventually unite themselves with our Lord, honoring God and all His blessings. After all our Lord is a merciful and loving God. We should want nothing more but to please our Lord, to love Him with all our being, including with our bodies. Our bodies are the temple of our Lord, should not abuse our body for our sake’s being but we should honor God in all things and ways. For what our Lord went through during His passion on earth, I want nothing that offends Him. For what offends Him, I pray that it offends me too. PAX CHRISTI PS let it be known that these topics are non-negotiable.
“The evil of abortion must be wiped out, but responsible family planning reduces the number of abortions” In fact, just the opposite has happened. With more availability of contraceptives, abortion sky rocketed. Why? When a contraceptive failed (or went unused!) abortion became the defacto method for preventing the birth of the child.
I won’t bother with the rest of your wrong and wrong headed statements. I would respectively suggest cracking open the Catechism and re read Humanae vitae.
Anonymous Coward,
Do you think God cares at all about your polls and studies? FYI, He makes the rules and those who refuse to follow those rules better learn to live with extreme heat!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
CCC 2331 “God is love and in himself he lives a mystery of personal loving communion. Creating the human race in his own image . . .. God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation, and thus the capacity and responsibility, of love and communion.”115
“God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them”;116 He blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply”;117 “When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.”118
CCC 2332 Sexuality affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul. It especially concerns affectivity, the capacity to love and to procreate, and in a more general way the aptitude for forming bonds of communion with others.
CCC 2333 Everyone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity. Physical, moral, and spiritual difference and complementarity are oriented toward the goods of marriage and the flourishing of family life. The harmony of the couple and of society depends in part on the way in which the complementarity, needs, and mutual support between the sexes are lived out.
CCC II. THE VOCATION TO CHASTITY
2337 Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity of man in his bodily and spiritual being. Sexuality, in which man’s belonging to the bodily and biological world is expressed, becomes personal and truly human when it is integrated into the relationship of one person to another, in the complete and lifelong mutual gift of a man and a woman.
The virtue of chastity therefore involves the integrity of the person and the integrality of the gift.
Read the CCC in which it explains the offenses against Chastity:
Read 2351 – 2359 (too long to post here)
It states very clearly what they are The CCC is an excellent tool to use to help guide all who wish to be faithful, to understand their responsibility as baptized Catholics. Refer to your CCC, Bible and for full and further learning read writings of the saints, doctors of the Church etc.
In A.D. 195, Clement of Alexandria wrote, “Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to be damaged, nor is it to be wasted” (The Instructor of Children 2:10:91:2).
Augustine wrote in 419, “I am supposing, then, although you are not lying [with your wife] for the sake of procreating offspring, you are not for the sake of lust obstructing their procreation by an evil prayer or an evil deed. Those who do this, although they are called husband and wife, are not; nor do they retain any reality of marriage, but with a respectable name cover a shame. Sometimes this lustful cruelty, or cruel lust, comes to this, that they even procure poisons of sterility [oral contraceptives]” (Marriage and Concupiscence 1:15:17).
The Magisterium
This was reiterated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “[E]very action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible is intrinsically evil” (CCC 2370). “Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means . . . for example, direct sterilization or contraception” (CCC 2399).
Anonymous have you no fear of the Lord? “Most priests in the US disagree with Humanae Vitae, as do about 85% of US Catholics?”
“For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.” 2 Peter 2:18
“They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation.” Deut. 32:5
God said to the woman: ” I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over thee.” The modern feminist movement looks like an organized rebellion against God.
Anonymous Coward,
Do you even think that for one minute God cares about your polls and studies?
He makes the rules for our own good, and we violate those rules to our own destruction!
Hell is forever, think about it!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc
This is a classic example of possible misinformation from numbers. The article cites increases in disease rates from use of certain products. But I could not find a ‘base’ rate. Without use of the product, is the occurrence rate one in a million? Or one in ten? I think it might be nice to know what the base is.
Women who lied to you? Do you not know that God created you so perfectly and beautifully, that you can carry a little life. You are better than what this secular world has introduced to you away from God and you deserve to know the truth and so do your daughters, sisters etc. Do not abuse your bodies.