CV NEWS FEED // In a recent op-ed published by Angelus News, wellness expert Katie Breckenridge has observed that a growing number of women are deciding to go off hormonal birth control due to health concerns.
Citing a rise in defensive promotional tactics across secular news outlets and social media platforms such as the Washington Post and TikTok, Breckenridge noted in her article the spread of “a growing nervousness among advocates of the pill,” as more women begin to reject it for health safety reasons.
“In recent months, there have been indicators that a new generation of women is rejecting the pill, not primarily on moral grounds, but on grounds of health,” she wrote, adding:
Even left-leaning feminist scholars have started to ask questions about how the pill has changed our views of what it means to be female, the value of motherhood, and what kinds of health outcomes we are willing to sacrifice for consequence-free sex.
In the battle for “reproductive freedom” and the “right” to kill our children, many are willing to turn a blind eye to the documented harms of hormonal contraceptives. But they are real, and a new generation is taking notice.
Recent studies conducted by the Catholic Medical Association found that hormonal birth control usage increases women’s risk of serious clotting by three to nine times, Breckonridge noted, with the risk for women under 30 increased by thirteen-fold during the first year of usage.
The same study reported approximately 300-400 deaths linked to hormonal birth control.
Trial runs for the first hormonal birth control pills, as “pushed” by known eugenicist Margarent Sanger, resulted in the deaths of three women in Puerto Rico, said Breckonridge. “Their complaints about the side effects — including nausea, depression, and blood clots — were dismissed as unreliable.”
“For thousands of years, doctors and physicians have taken an oath to ‘do no harm,’” she concluded:
It’s high time for us to do away with hormonal contraceptives so that we can have a more serious and robust discussion about how to regulate birth in a way that’s best for women.