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#Gop#reproductive rights#democrats#republicans#catholiscism#donald trump#kentucky#birth control#the pill#the handmaid's tale
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Should you take birth control pills or have children - Gittan Jönsson , 1975
Swedish, b. 1948 -
oil on canvas, 46.5 x 55 cm.
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(via loretta lynn "the pill" (1975)
You wined me and dined me
When I was your girl
Promised if I'd be your wife
You'd show me the world
But all I've seen of this old world
Is a bed and a doctor bill
I'm tearin' down your brooder house
'Cause now I've got the pill
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Image from History.com.
#OTW 1960: FDA Approves "THE PILL"
By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs
The FDA's May 9, 1960 approval of oral contraception, aka "the pill", transformed reproductive health. Women's health advocate Margaret Sanger spearheaded and activist/philanthropist Katherine McCormick funded the R&D needed for this medical research breakthrough to improve women's lives through "birth control."
Margaret Sanger, a nurse, coined the term “birth control” and dedicated herself to educating women. Her own mother had 18 pregnancies in 22 years and died from ovarian cancer. In 1914, she started a newsletter, The Woman Rebel, to "advocate the prevention of conception."
The Woman Rebel, No. 1; 3/1914.
Sanger was indicted repeatedly and even arrested on obscenity charges under the Comstock Laws (1873) which defined birth control as obscene and made it illegal to send contraceptive devices or even info about it through the mail.
United States v. Margaret H. Sanger; 8/25/1914, National Archives at New York. Emphases added.
Flyer from benefit held on eve of Sanger's trial for opening Brownsville Clinic. (Courtesy of Sanger Project).
Katherine McCormick heard Sanger speak in 1917 and grew convinced that women could only fully control their lives if they could control if and when they chose to bear children. She redirected her advocacy to the cause of birth control, even smuggling in diaphragms from Europe to New York at Sanger's request.
When her husband Stanley died in 1947, Katherine inherited an estate estimated worth almost $40 million (more than $500 million today). Margaret Sanger introduced her to Gregory Pincus who was doing pioneering research on fertilization and hormones.
Katharine funneled to Dr. Pincus more than $2 million ($25 million today), nearly all of the money used to support his lab's research and development of the contraceptive pill.
Read the National Archives Prologue Magazine story Rich, Famous, and Questionably Sane to learn how McCormick, who was blamed her husband's inability to consummate his own marriage, became the catalyst for the sexual revolution.
Women Hold Banner at National Women’s Conference, November 1977. NARA ID 7452290.
See also:
Records of Rights exhibit: Anti-Contraception Campaign 1914
DocsTeach: Indictment of Margaret H. Sanger, 8/25/1914
DocsTeach: Margaret Sanger: The Woman Rebel
DocsTeach: Reproductive Rights Documents
Margaret Sanger Papers, supported in part by the National Archives National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Women's Rights-related records
Women's Rights: Legislation and Advocacy
Women's History Month Special Topics page
#the pill#reproductive rights#planned parenthood#contraception#reproductive health#pro choice#my body my choice#abortion rights#roe vs wade#feminism#protect women
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"For the first time in the US, a pharmaceutical firm has asked to be allowed to sell birth control pills over the counter.
The announcement comes just weeks after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
The firm, Paris-based HRA Pharma, says its application to the Food and Drug Administration is unrelated.
The pills, the most common form of contraception in the US, have long required a prescription.
Studies have shown that over 50% of approximately 6.1 million pregnancies in the US each year are unintended. While birth control pills were first approved for use in the US more than 60 years ago, about one-third of US women who have tried to get or fill prescriptions have reported difficulties doing so."
Read the full piece here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62124365
#the pill#contraception#contraception info#feminism#feminist#republican war on women#reproductive rights#reproductive freedom#pro choice#pro-choice
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#birth control#the pill#Xanax#I lied#easy to deceive#funny#funny post#lol#life#funny meme#funny memes#lmao#too funny#dating#relationship#it’s a trap#pull out#pregnancy tests#pregnant
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#bc#birth control#the pill#contraceptive pill#self healing#healing#awakening#toxin free#toxin free living#simpleorganix
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“Both parties are the same:” No, the GOP believes a 10 year old rape victim should be forced to give birth and that contraceptives should be banned.”
This is not the same thing.
You know things are bad when even Reddit conservatives are like: “Wait, they are against the pill?”
When Conservatives actually shocked Reddit conservatives.
#Democrats#news#Ohio#Republicans#News#Reddit#ohio#indiana#democrats#republicans#Tw: rape#donald trump#Scotus#The pill
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"youre a misogynist if you tell the truth about what hormonal birth control does to womens bodies"
is the original
"youre a right wing fascist if you tell the truth about covid vaccine side effects"
#health#birth control#the pill#misogyny#people are so bloody delusional#hormonal birth control#im so glad i never went on it#tho i did take a lot of plan Bs and it probably damaged my body#cuz now I have pcos#covid19#covid vaccine
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Friendly reminder for anyone living in a daylight savings timezone, 'Spring Forward' is on March 10th. If you're on birth control medication, or any other timed medication, adjust your scheduling accordingly! ❤❤
#time change#daylight savings#spring forward#fall back#time zones#time zone problems#medication#birth control#The pill#michigan#medicine#healthcare#health
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Loretta Lynn really went on The Muppets and sang about birth control pills. Iconic
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"For the first time, an oral contraceptive is going to be available over the counter, without a prescription. On July 13, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it has approved the contraceptive pill Opill. Many are praising the FDA’s decision as a significant step toward making contraception more widely available. Perrigo Company, the pill's Dublin-based manufacturer, stated that Opill will most likely be available in grocery and convenience stores, as well as online, in early 2024. Perrigo’s president and CEO Murray Kessler called the FDA’s decision “a new, groundbreaking chapter in reproductive health.”
"It may indeed be groundbreaking—but not for the reason Kessler believes. Contrary to popular myth, increased use of contraception is correlated to an increase in abortions. And despite what proponents claim, hormonal birth control has a damaging effect on both mental and physical health...Opill, like other forms of hormonal birth control, primarily consists of progestin, “a hormone that thickens mucus in the cervix to make it harder for sperm to enter the uterus,” according to the New York Times. Opill is said to be less effective than pills with both progestin and estrogen, yet defenders of the FDA’s decision say that Opill is still highly effective as long as it is taken at the same time every day."
The article makes the point, which everyone who studies this knows, that the pill actually increases nonmarital pregnancies, because the pill requires regular use, and the kind of people who are not disciplined enough to wait until marriage are often also not disciplined enough to take a pill every day. This version of the pill seems to require an extraordinary high level of discipline--it must be taken at the same time every day. "Unintended" pregnancies in the U.S. basically never occur because contraceptives aren't available, but because the couple does not use them properly.
The article also makes the point about the extensively documented link between the pill and depression, which I've blogged about before. It might have mentioned the link between the pill and blood clotting, which might be dangerous if the pill is taken over the counter and the user is not in touch with a doctor.
The article does not make a point that it easily could have, that this is a huge win for Big Pharma. Notice that it is the CEO who calls this "groundbreaking." I'm assuming the Biden administration will get its fair share of donations this cycle.
The article also does not discuss something that I think is relevant. Typical birth control pills are on the list of known carcinogens by the International Agency for Research for Canger (IARC), a project of the World Health Organization. They are in category 1, the same as tobacco. It's likely that the explosion in cases of breast cancer over the last 50 years is caused by increasingly widespread use of the hormones in the pill. The CDC says that using the pill increases a woman's chances of breast and cervical cancers by as much as 60%. As I wrote a few years ago, "It’s safer to smoke 5-8 cigars daily (relative risk of cancer 1.17; see Table 3)–which almost nobody does–than to be on the Pill (relative risk 1.24 for current users)."
(The article does not say more about whether the reduced amount of estrogen is intended to make Opill less carcinogenic, but I can't imagine that we have sufficient data on this particular pill to determine this.)
The argument for having restrictions on tobacco sales is that tobacco causes cancer. The same argument should argue for at least the same restrictions on Opill. Defenders of the pill will point to studies that show the likelihood of cancer drops off once someone stops using the pill (as in the CDC link above); the likelihood of cancer also drops off once someone quits smoking cigarettes. Given these parallels, I would think that states would want to pass laws restricting over the counter sales of either carcinogen to minors.
The more people become aware that playing with the hormones in the body is not that safe, the more people will switch to using fertility awareness methods, which are natural and more in tune with the environment. But these natural methods don't make Big Pharma any money!
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Does the pill reduce libido for real? And if it feels like it does, is it just a mood thing? Is it possible to have/regain a high libido while on the pill? Sorry if this isn't appropriate for this blog.
the pill (daily hormonal contraception) can reduce libido, but there are a lot of factors / things to keep in mind:
if the pill reduces your libido, it probably has more to do with the actual chemical/hormonal changes in your body, and not just that your mood is changed
there are dozens are brands of the pill, and they all have slightly different balances of hormones. Some are low dose, some have estrogen and progesterone, some only have progesterone. If you start taking the pill and it affects your body in a way you don't like, and it doesn't even out in a couple of months, go back to your doctor and ask to try a different brand
many people find their libido is raised when they are on a reliable form of birth control, because they are no longer worried about becoming accidentally pregnant.
if the pill does affect your mood to such an extent that you notice it, even if it doesn't affect your body in a way you don't like, you can STILL change the kind you take. Again, there are dozens of brands, and there is probably one kind that will be the right fit, and won't negatively affect you.
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