The
Cost of Contraception: Women's Health
- Response to CNN
By
Jenn Giroux
FRONT
ROYAL, Virginia, June 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- As a Registered Nurse and mother of
9 I am stunned at the mis-information
found in Adam Sonfield's CNN article
entitled:
"What if Contraception were always
covered?"
Sonfield
claims that there is overwhelming medical,
social and economic benefit to contraception
access. The complete opposite is true.
Undeniable
medical evidence confirms that use of
the pill increases a woman's risk and
incident for Breast, Cervical, and Liver
Cancer. Prior to the pill and the widespread
use of contraception there were known
to be 5 sexually transmitted diseases.
Today there are more than 30. Will treatment
be free for these 50+ million US men
and women who are reported to have incurable
genital herpes (Source - Sexual Transmitted
Disease Surveillance and Statistics,
The US Center for Disease Control and
Prevention)? And what about the health
of unsuspecting young girls who now
use hormonal contraceptives for a minimum
of 4 years prior to their first full
term pregnancy? Is it also a "health
benefit" that according to the
Guttmacher Institute they will have
a 52% higher risk of developing breast
cancer (Mayo Clinic Proceedings)? I
think not.
On
the social end, it is clear from the
admitted behavior of those who receive
early access to contraception that they
have sex sooner. Had Mr. Sonfield not
cited only selected research from his
employer, he would have disclosed that
Guttmacher's own research confirms that
60% of women have abortions because
of failed contraception. Therefore,
always and without exception, increased
contraception means increased abortions.
Contraception is abortion's feeder system
- and Gutmacher, Planned Parenthood,
and Obama know that.
And
how ironic is it to mention the 'Healthy
People 2010' goals as a reason for pushing
contraception (many methods of which
are known abortifacients)? Socially,
a recent report by researchers at the
Wharton School of Business confirms
that mothers are more unhappy today
than ever before. It states: "If
the pill made motherhood 'better,' then
one would expect that mothers would
be happier now than they were in 1972,
before the birth rate fell dramatically
as contraception use expanded. Instead,
as, between 1972 and 2006, the happiness
of U.S. mothers fell just as dramatically."
This helps identify the widespread 'post
contraceptive regret' that is felt in
the hearts of women across America who
mourn the children that God intended
for them yet they knowingly prevented
or aborted.
With
50+ million surgical abortions, an estimated
250 million chemical abortions from
hormonal contraceptives, and nearly
20 million individual new cases of STD's
reported in US every year, it is time
for the advocates of Planned Parenthood's
own research arm, Guttmucher Institute,
to be held accountable to taxpayers
for the straight facts.
Women
and young girls should not be misled
into a lifestyle of contraception that
carries more medical costs and emotional
pain than the benefits its purports
to bestow. It is time that the focus
once again be placed on America's greatest
resource: children.
Dare
Mr. Sonfield argue with that?
Jenn
Giroux is a Registered Nurse and the
new Executive Director of HLI America,
a new program of Human Life International
founded to educate on the physical,
emotional, and spiritual harms of contraception
and to highlight the beauty of having
children. She and her husband, Dan,
have nine children and live in Cincinnati.
See http://www.hliamerica.org/
for more information.
"For
to me to live is Christ, and to die is
gain." (Phil 1:21)