Even though there might be a one in a million chance of being impacted, we freak out when peanuts are linked to salmonella. Likewise if there is one mad cow in Alberta, no steak for six months. How about when a drug causes unforeseen health risks? Remember Vioxx? You can’t really blame people, why take the chance? Besides the media usually loves to hype when a common food or a drug has been linked to a disease. Usually.
Oral contraceptives have been linked to various maladies over the years but these facts are widely ignored. Breast cancer, cervical cancer, and heart disease have all been associated with oral contraceptives and this has been received to the collective yawn of the media and the contracepting public. Inconvenient truth you might say.
Now add to the list of risks associated with oral contraceptives – Lupus.
ScienceDaily (Apr. 8, 2009) — The ratio of women to men with the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is nine to one and the incidence increases after puberty. Hormones secreted by the body are therefore believed to play an important role in the origins of the disease.
A new large, population-based observational study found that the use of oral contraceptives was associated with an increased risk of SLE, particularly among women who had recently started taking them.
Rhetorically I ask, “why is it that so many would swear off hamburgers, peanut butter, or arthritis medicine at the slightest hint of a risk but ignore clear evidence of health risks when it comes to contraception?” Obviously, the pill is intrinsically linked to the false notion of sexual liberation and no amount of bad news, save body parts immediately falling off, will turn people off of getting turned on.
In this revolution, the media and the masses loudly proclaim by their silence “Give me liberty and give me death.”
April 9, 2009 at 5:25 am
“…and no amount of bad news, save body parts immediately falling off, will turn people off of getting turned on.”
I doubt even that would do the trick, instead there would be a push for science to provide a way for us to regrow limbs, much like salamanders will regenerate their tails.
April 9, 2009 at 12:19 pm
It may not be the lightning bolt that took care of Onan, but it is divine retribution in a way, isn’t it? No surprise here that they’ll bury the evidence and the story.
April 9, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Didn’t someone once say “it’s not nice to fool mother nature?”
So, trying to divorce sex from babies is a bad idea. Duh.
April 10, 2009 at 3:09 am
http://www.polycarp.org/
April 10, 2009 at 11:11 am
I read that fish and other aquatic critters are showing up with both sexual bits . . . increased hormones from “pills” in the water . . . this concerns me greatly as this is mutation beyond weird. So, apparently, women are putting this toxic stuff into their bodies and releasing it in the tanks that go through the water system one way or another – and it ends up in the ocean, riverbeds, etc. Freaky!