CV NEWS FEED // In an essay published Tuesday at the National Review, Natalie Dodson and Grace Emily Stark argued that the pro-contraception bill Senate Democrats are set to bring to a vote Wednesday would undermine women’s health.
Dodson and Stark wrote that if enacted, the Right to Contraception Act “would tie the hands of medical professionals who wish to treat patients based on their medical expertise by requiring them to prescribe contraception at the patient’s request.”
The authors asserted that the legislation seeks to “enforce a transactional approach to medical care, where medical professionals have little say in the drugs they prescribe for their patients.”
“The bill would also eliminate religious protections for doctors and force them to provide contraception in violation of their religious beliefs,” they continued:
This is yet another step in the Left’s slow march to destroy medical professionals’ right to conscientious objection, and another push to ignore the harms that birth control has done to women’s health and their ability to access the restorative reproductive care they deserve.
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Dobson and Stark went on to explain how birth control pills are detrimental to women’s health – directly contrary to what their proponents claim.
“Hormonal contraceptives contain synthetic versions of the hormones estrogen and progesterone,” they wrote. “These hormones shut down a woman’s menstrual cycle — and, with it, her fertility — for as long as she takes the drug.”
“And because many cells across the body have receptors for these hormones, birth control affects a woman’s entire body,” Dobson and Stark continued:
That is why it can cause such disparate risks and side effects as stomach upset, headaches, and loss of libido on the milder side of things, and blood clots and breast and cervical cancers on the rarer but far more serious side. Other side effects that are often downplayed, perhaps because the mechanisms behind them are not well understood, include anxiety, depression, autoimmune disease, weight gain, and more.
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Dodson is a policy analyst for the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC).
Stark serves as the editor-in-chief of Natural Womanhood. Per its website, the magazine “promotes fertility awareness” and “natural family planning as essential tools for women’s health….”
Readers can find Dodson and Stark’s full article here.
