I came across this story from the UK just recently, and I thought it was worth a mention because it really highlights how contraception makes society dumber.
The Reader’s Digest version of the story goes like this…
A woman in the UK went to a pharmacy to get the morning-after pill, and the Muslim pharmacist refused to give it to her on religious grounds.
Let me quote what the woman had to say about why she needed the morning-after pill in the first place…
“I don’t want to increase my family and this was an accident so I needed to take the pill.”
How dumb are human beings becoming?
Pregnancy is not an accident – it is the result of the deliberate sexual union of a man and a woman.
An accident is an event that happens outside of your control (like when you crash your car because a cat runs out on to the road in front of you) – this woman and her partner deliberately chose to have sexual intercourse.
But once they had done the deed, THEN they decided that they didn’t really want to deal with the consequences of their actions, so they tried (or more appropriately; she was probably told) to seek a medical solution to rid themselves of the beautiful (and naturally intended) outcome of their sexual intercourse – a new human being.
“I was angry because he is a dispensing chemist and it is his job to dispense drugs…”
“This is a perfectly legal drug but there is a man introducing his own laws. It cannot be right that he can pick and choose the drugs he sells.”
In other words; this woman doesn’t really want a responsible pharmacist who exercises due care and concern for the health of his patients – what she really wants is an automated drug dispenser which will give her the drugs she wants without any of those pesky moral, ethical or medical considerations getting in the way!
Here’s a woman who typifies the modern approach to human biology and female fertility.
Basically, instead of embracing her fertility as a beautiful and integral part of her being as a human person, she sees it as a curse, or a disease that needs to be medicated against.
Why?
Who knows for sure in this case, but most people today see things this way because they value dumb sex, possessions, careers and other “things” more than they value their body and the beautiful gift of a new human life.
The morning-after pill often causes a chemical abortion – in other words; it often doesn’t prevent conception from occurring – it actually kills a new human life in its earliest stages of development by making the lining of the womb unfriendly to an embryo after conception has already occurred.
But it isn’t just the baby that’s at risk here; there is also serious risk to the mother as well.
Our bodies are not designed to be exposed to high-dose synthetic hormones – yet this is exactly what chemical contraceptives are.
Did you know that it takes approximately ten years for a woman’s hormone levels to return to their natural levels after she has stopped taking chemical contraceptives?
Did you know that in the original trials, a male and female contraceptive pill was developed – the male pill caused the testicles of male test subjects to change size, so that was scrapped, while three women died during the trial for the female contraceptive pill, yet they carried on regardless (without autopsies)?
Did you know that the commonly used female contraceptive chemical; Depo-Provera, is the same chemical that they use to sterilise criminally convicted male sex-offenders, just in lower doses?
Did you know that research shows us that women who take hormonal contraceptives are exposing themselves to a seriously increased risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke, ovarian and other cancers, early onset dementia, and a multitude of other serious conditions?
Did you know that epigenetic research shows us that hormonal contraceptives have trans-generational side effects? (In other words, the side effects occur in the children, or children’s children, of the women taking the contraceptives).
And don’t be fooled into thinking that the manufacturers of these chemicals are producing better products as the years go by.
In 2002 the contraceptive patch called “Sex Patch” was released onto the US market, and by 2004 it had killed 17 women and caused at least 21 other life threatening conditions.
Our desire to have dumb sex (sex for physical pleasure only, without all the emotional, spiritual and anthropological aspects of true human sexuality) is costing us big time.
In fact it’s making us dumber!
The lady in the story is a victim of dumb sex – she probably has no idea about the serious risks of taking chemical contraceptives because she has been duped by drug companies who don’t care about women, marriages, families or societies.
All they care about is money, and if people were to start having intelligent sex they know it would cost them everything, so they’re more than happy to support the status quo of a culture that embraces dumb sex.
* Post scrpt: This related news story hit the news wires on Thursday
Thanks Ox,
That was a really interesting post – can’t believe that the connection between oral contraceptives and breast cancer is so high! I wonder if that will be advertised in the media… I am guessing not.
I was shocked to watch a video on You Tube of a student at a Catholic University in America giving a graduation speech. In it he talks about contraception and how it is selfish – and members of the audience, swear at him, and walk out. I can’t believe that in what is supposed to be a CATHOLIC university that people are so rude and have such anti Catholic views. If you’re interested, the link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sbPSPAxBnk
Rather disheartening…
Ox,
“Did you know that research shows us that women who take hormonal contraceptives are exposing themselves to a seriously increased risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke, ovarian and other cancers, early onset dementia, and a multitude of other serious conditions?
Did you know that epigenetic research shows us that hormonal contraceptives have trans-generational side effects? (In other words, the side effects occur in the children, or children’s children, of the women taking the contraceptives).”
For women who are on the Pill for health reasons, it’s pretty hard to take this argument. I know the Church “lets us off” because of Double Effect but there’s more to this.
For the men of the Catholic Church who have never had to experience a number of debilitating – and they are debilitating – conditions that can be eased only by treatment with the contraceptive pill, it’s a bit on-the-nose to lecture extensively about the horrors the medication can cause.
I know personally of Catholic women who, despite suffering to a horrific extent, have refused treament with the contraceptive pill, because of its evils preached by our Church.
I take great issue with this, and call for a bit of compassion and calm when you report on it.
Hi Capitan,
I’m not exactly sure what the problem is here.
Double Effect allows women to use the pill as a medication as long as their intention is not to contracept.
I never said that women taking the pill as a treatment for genuine medical conditions (and not as a contraceptive) are engaging in dumb sex.
However, the fact still remains that ANY woman talking the pill is exposing herself to serious life-threatening medical risks – the deadly side-effects of the pill don’t discriminate between those who are contracepting and those who are using it as a medication.
Sadly, the majority of women are not told the full facts about the very real and very present dangers of contraceptive chemicals – so when they start taking them for medical reasons, most of them have no idea of the true risks they are exposing themselves to.
Especially adolescent women – where research is showing that their genetics are actually changing after being on the pill – and so far we don’t know whether this is permanent or temporary.
Capitan, if someone came to you and offered you a medication that relieved painful symptoms of a condition, but at the same time exposed you to the serious risk of breast cancer, early on-set dementia, ovarian and other cancers, heart attack and stroke, HIV (in the case of Depo Provera), etc, etc, and it would even manifest negative side-effects in your children – would you seriously tell me that you would still take that medication?
If you would then that’s insane – it’s like saying that you’d cut your arm off to cure the pain of a torn muscle.
This is not hysteria – this is a serious issue of women’s health that has seen most women denied the truth about the dangers of the medications they have been told are safe.
It’s like HRT for menopausal women – the same chemicals are used in that treatment which many doctors once prescribed as safe – now most doctors won’t go near it with a barge pole and natural alternative treatments for menopausal symptoms are thriving.
I’m not being uncompassionate to women who are taking the pill for medical reasons; just the opposite –my hope is that they will truly realise the serious health risks that they are being exposed to by lazy doctors and money-hungry pharmaceutical companies.
Then I hope they get angry enough to demand that this immoral practise be stopped and that those behind it be held accountable, for the sake of all women.
All right Ox,
Tell me something. Are you asking women who experience menstrual cramps that are debilitating to the point they are doubled over in pain, who have a period lasting two weeks at a time, who have no idea when their next period will come because their hormones – the result of a number of medical conditions – are out of whack to not take a medication that eases those symptoms and helps regulate what should be a normal bodily function but alas for many is not?
“Capitan, if someone came to you and offered you a medication that relieved painful symptoms of a condition, but at the same time exposed you to the serious risk of breast cancer, early on-set dementia, ovarian and other cancers, heart attack and stroke, HIV (in the case of Depo Provera), etc, etc, and it would even manifest negative side-effects in your children – would you seriously tell me that you would still take that medication?”
Yes, Ox, yes. In fact, I fit right into that category, oh but you forgot “an increased risk in clotting, possibly causing death” as well. I was offered this medication, warned of the side-effects, and took it anyway. I did this because I quite literally was unable to participate fully in life with the condition untreated.
How dare you, as a man, ask this of women. You can throw facts and figures all you like, but you have no idea of what you’re doing or saying.
Hi Capitan,
I do actually have an awareness of the medical conditions you speak of.
One of my ex-girlfriends suffered terribly from the exact same symptoms you describe here.
It was hard for me to see her go through this each month and it was even harder for her to actually go through it.
But she never took the pill once, and she made a choice not to do so based on health risks.
I don’t mean to pry, but I presume that you have been checked for endometriosis?
The reason I mention this is because endometriosis is one of the leading cause for these kinds of symptoms and in many cases it can be treated with surgery.
I have friends who have presented with similar symptoms to yours and they were put on the pill – which only treats symptoms – and as a result their true conditions were masked until some years later when further investigation was carried out and a treatable cause was discovered and then dealt with.
Also, I have been advised by doctors that similar cases are being treated with other medications and treatments in other parts of the world.
Please understand that I have utmost empathy for the condition you speak of, and that I can never fully understand it as a man, but please don’t mistake what I am saying here.
There is nothing morally wrong with you taking the pill to treat your symptoms.
But by doing so you are exposing yourself to serious life-threatening medical risks that cannot be understated.
If you are comfortable exposing yourself to these risks then that’s your choice.
But don’t let your decision take away the right of other women to know the full facts about the very real dangers of chemical contraceptives.
I would also be interested to know how the risks were presented to you by your doctor, because in my experience they are often wrongly downplayed by doctors who rely on research carried out and provided by the very companies who manufacture the products that are the subject of the actual research.
I appreciate that this is a hard discussion for you, but if you are interested I can put you in contact with a couple of excellent doctors who would be more than happy to dialogue with you further regarding this issue and the important medical details that only doctors can provide.
If nothing else, at least you will be better informed about the pills you are taking.
Peace,
The Ox.
Ps – I don’t mean to sound like “cheesy Christian” or trite, but I will also be making a point of remembering you in my daily prayers regarding the medical conditions you have mentioned here.
Hey Captain / Ox
Ox, I didn’t take any offence to what you reported about the effects of the pill. I am one of those people who was prescribed it due to debilitating pain etc. And I refused to take it. I am chaste so was not concerned about the contraceptive effect. What I was concerned about was damaging my womb or anything in my body for that matter that might be passed on to any children the Lord may bless me with. In a certain sense I already love my children very much… I have a mothers heart and the thought of causing damage to the small space that will allow my baby to grow and thrive absolutely mortifies me.
I couldn’t bare the thought.
I did not take the medicine for many reasons, and I sit at my desk with my hottie sometimes, take huge amounts of pain killers and sometimes on somedays I spend more days walking or limping around the office because it is too painful to sit.
Why do I do this? Because I love my fertility, it is a tremendous gift.
Captain – I am not saying that this is the answer for everyone I am simply affirming Ox’s post and sharing my thoughts.
The facts of this medication are important and should be more widely known.
“How dare you, as a man, ask this of women. You can throw facts and figures all you like, but you have no idea of what you’re doing or saying.”
Captain, while no man will fully understand what you live and suffer personally, men can still talk about pain and suffering, and can talk from their own experience about their suffering, and then apply that to real life situations where one must weigh up the moral pros and cons of using this or that particular medical drug in a particular situation.
Priests often have to do this when they give counselling. A priest often hasn’t suffered every suffering there is to be had, or experienced everything there is to experience in life, but he can still give advice for situations like yours…
I have 2 male friends who died of terminal cancer; and if they were around physically, they could tell you a thing or two about suffering – and still give you some advice about taking chemical drugs, even though they haven’t ever suffered from a period or any other female ‘pain’.
Don’t assume that men have never suffered!
What you accuse men of, and in particular Ox of, you may be guilty of yourself.
Drugs have many effects, some of them bad, some of them good. Using a drug is often about weighing up those effects, in light on known Catholic moral principles.
Once again, just because someone suffers, doesn’t mean they have a right to use any drug they want.
On another note, just because many suffer from Parkisons, like Micheal J fox, doesn’t mean that we (they) have a right to destroy embryos to get the chemical “drug” they need to survive, or even be “cured”, to allieviate their suffering.
Medicine must always be surrounded by proper ethics and morality, because it touches on human life, and human behaviour.
Suffering is not easy. Life is not easy. Anyone who says that life is easy is a liar. Anyone who thinks that life is just a “fun ol’ game” is not based in reality.
I’m not saying that you think these things Captain, but there is a tendency these days to think that life owes us something…something sweet and pleasureable, – it doesn’t.
This is why Faith and Hope in God are so important. They give meaning to all our pains and joys. They allow us to Hope and Believe and then Love beyond the sorrow of this world, and desire the next, when Jesus will wipe away every tear…