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U.S. Pro-Life Groups Unite in Protest
Against Birth Control Pill
WASHINGTON,
D.C., June 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– American Life League and 26
other pro-life organizations have joined
together for “Protest the Pill
Day: The Pill Kills the Environment”
on June 5.
At
the national event launch at 11 a.m.
outside of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan
Washington, D.C., Dr. James Joyce, M.D.,
Jennifer Giroux, R.N., and pro-life
activists Marie Hahnenberg, Michael
Hichborn and Katie Walker will testify
to the harmful effects birth control
has on our environment and our health.
The
event will draw attention to the environmental
and health hazards of the nation's most
commonly used contraceptive method –
the birth control pill – which
turns 50 years old this year.
“Scientists
are discovering ‘intersex’
fish in various areas around the world,”
said Hahnenberg, The Pill Kills project
director. “Studies in the United
States, from California to Maryland
(including the Potomac River), have
revealed that some male fish have been
feminized by the vast quantities of
synthetic estrogen in the water.”
Participating
organizations say it is time to expose
what the pharmaceutical industry has
been hiding.
“It’s
about time women were made aware that
the birth control they are taking could
have negative consequences on their
health and on the environment,”
said Judie Brown, president and cofounder
of American Life League."They deserve
the truth – regardless of political
pressure to conceal it."
Pro-life
activist Jennifer Giroux, executive
director of HLI-America, has been a
registered nurse for 24 years. Dr. James
Joyce, a Fertility Care Center medical
consultant for southwest Minnesota,
has 21 years of experience in family
medicine.
Hichborn
and Walker will testify to the harmful
effects birth control has on our environment
and our health, not to mention the potential
for fatal effects on preborn children.
Protest
the Pill Day cosponsors include American
Life League, Human Life International,
Pro-Life Wisconsin, Pharmacists for
Life International, Archdiocese of Mobile
Respect Life, Operation Rescue, Jill
Stanek, Generation Life/Brandi Swindell,
Life Education Ministry, Pro-Life Unity,
Movement for a Better America, AMEN
(Abortion Must End Now), Pro-Life Action
of Oregon, Children of God for Life,
Expectant Mother Care/Chris Slattery,
Mother and Unborn Baby Care, Defenders
of the Unborn, California Right to Life
Education Fund, Delaware Pro-Life Coalition,
Life Guard, Homeschoolers for Life,
Focus Pregnancy Center, Central Texas
Voices for Life, Dubuque County Right
to Life, Couples
for Christ Foundation for Family &
Life, Central Nebraskans United
for Life, and CREDO Rochester, Inc.
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MORE INFORMATION: http://www.thepillkills.com/
"For
to me to live is Christ, and to die
is gain." (Phil 1:21)