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Of mice and men

Wowsers. Well, I guess it’s about time it happened…or is happening. It will be interesting to see how this affects men and society. Though I wonder how many men would really be willing to use it. by...

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Plan C, for conscience

I think this is fair. People who want the pill can simply go to a different pharmacy. Big deal. This reminds me a little of the counseling student issue. Surely they could have worked something out...

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Pill improves memory – if only you could remember to take it

by Carolyn Moynihan The contraceptive pill could make women better gossips but no better at reading maps, if research carried out in Austria is anything to go by. The first ever study of the effect of...

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‘We insist: leave your conscience at the door’

Here’s more from the author of ‘Plan C for Conscience,’ since that post garnered so much attention here and elsewhere. Here’s her take on the reactions her previous article received. Be sure not to...

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The Gift of Female Fertility

This is a short excerpt from an outstanding chapter in the Women, Sex and the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching anthology, to which I am a contributor. Angela Franks, Ph.D. contributed the chapter...

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An ecological blind spot

by Cristina Alarcon Contraceptives are polluting women’s bodies and the environment, but who cares? There is a huge effort today to protect the physical environment from the unintended effects of human...

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The Pill’s Deadly Affair with HIV/AIDS

By Joan Robinson The U.S. is contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS among African women by its reckless distribution of hormonal contraceptives of all kinds in so-called “reproductive health” programs....

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Birth Control Pill Linked with Yet Another Serious Long-Term Risk

by Laurie Heap M.D. Recent research is pointing to the fact that the pill could increase a woman’s risk of heart attack and stroke long after discontinuation. During the late 1960s when it came to...

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10 Reasons The Pill Sucks

I’ve done a few articles of similar nature, and have decided to create the definitive documentation of said contraceptive suckage. For those of you currently on The Pill: I in no way condemn you, I...

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Nunsense about the pill

P.S. Nulliparity definition: A medical term used to refer to a condition or state in which a woman has never given birth to a child, or has never carried a pregnancy. by Alex Perrottet Why the hazards...

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A good solution or a quick fix?

by Anne Morse This article was first published February 22, 2012, at Mercatornet.com. Should women suffering from anorexia take pills to suppress hunger? Should women suffering from fertility take...

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Dangers of the pill lost in current debate

When is it ever right to give a Group 1 carcinogen to a healthy women? We don’t have to take a Group 1 carcinogen to be liberated.” These are the words of Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, breast surgical...

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Adam and Eve after the Pill

by Paul Adams This book could hardly be more timely. The Obama Administration’s birth control mandate may be a matter of religious liberty and the First Amendment, but it has also opened up the...

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Who are the Real “Men With Breasts?”

by Dr. Rebecca Peck Pennsylvania State Rep. Babette Josephs, a Philadelphia Democrat, recently attacked her pro-life women colleagues in the state legislature for supporting a bill that would allow...

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How “The Pill” Can Harm Your Future Child’s Health

by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist Since the introduction of oral contraceptives in the early 1960′s, use of The Pill, as it is generally known, has soared to approximately 7 in 10 women of...

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NFP – Faithfully Yours

From The Maximus Group Every year the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) designates an entire week to advancing Catholics’ knowledge about Natural Family Planning; NFP Awareness Week...

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The science of human attraction

by Shannon Roberts We at Demography is Destiny, are concerned with falling fertility rates, a ‘top heavy’ population, and the problems that this is currently causing for society.  Could a factor...

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Doctor warns of physical, moral dangers in touted contraceptive pill

by Charlie Butts Researchers are hoping to develop a once-per-month contraceptive pill but the message to sell the idea is deceptive. Academics believe the month-after pill would be popular among women...

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Sweetening the pill

A young woman dissolves the sugar coating on the contraceptive pill and exposes its harmful, anti-woman core. by Carolyn Moynihan Holly Grigg-Spall is a young woman who calls herself a feminist but who...

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The economics of sex

  by Tamara Rajakariar Ever wonder why men seem to make less effort to pursue women, there are more break-ups and premarital partners, and marriages are later and less often? It’s all about the...

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