Family planning is a very personal issue among couples. There are several family planning choices offered today. Some of these choices, however, are costly and have many harmful side effects to both men and women, many of which are not disscussed with patients. In order to make an informed family planning decision, we feel that you must be aware of how artificial birth control methods work, and the risks you take when using them.
To understand why the birth control pill, the Depo-Provera injections, The Patch and Norplant deserve to be classified as abortifacients, we must review carefully their mechanism of action inter uterine devices, etc. The most commonly used, the Pill, typically contains a combination of the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
The Pill’s three distinct effects on the female reproductive system:
- Suppresses ovulation
- Thickens the cervical mucus to impede sperm penetration
- Alters the inner lining (endometrium) of the uterus, the nutrient-rich lining to which the baby is attached for the majority of the pregnancy.12
THE PILL
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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ADMISSION
The recent press release of July 29, 2005 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) a division of the world health organization (WHO), revealed the little publicized classification of combined estrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives (OCs) as carcinogenic. The IARC placed the contraceptive/abortifacients into its group 1 classification, which is the highest classification of carcinogenicity. This classification is only used “When there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans”
Combined estrogen-progestogen OCs are the most commonly prescribed methods of artificial birth control. “Worldwide, more than 100 million women – about 10% of all women of reproductive age – currently use combined hormonal contraceptives”. Tragically, the WHO is only admitting “late” what was already reported in 2003 by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and other scientific bodies that have found a substantially increased risk of several types of cancer among combined OC users, citing a “significant increase” of the risk of breast cancer, as well as an increase in the risk of cervical and liver cancers. What they failed to report is that millions of women are being given the same carcinogenic chemicals, particularly the poor in Third World countries, through the Depo- Provera injections, implants, patches, Intra-uterine devices, etc. Even though there is immediate danger to the millions of women, who are regularly ingesting or inserting “Carcinogenic chemicals”, the IARC did not recommend the immediate removal of combined estrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives from the market.
Your return to normal cycles will depend on how long you have been using artificial methods of birth control. Following is a possible example of how the body tries to return to fertility after using the birth control pill for less than one year.
To better understand your cycles of fertility and infertility, please download our book and/or our charting coach, and call us in order to give you the name of a teacher near you area to assist you in the follow up of your cycles. Eventually, your cycles will return to normal like the example below.
Good nutrition and vitamins seem to help the return to fertility and average cycles.
UNDERSTAND YOUR FERTILE & INFERTILE DAYS OF THE OVULATION METHOD
| To POSTPONE Pregnancy Use the Infertile Days |
The Ovulation Method is not the old "rhythm method" or the temperature method. It is a new scientifically proven method, researched by Dr. John Billings with the scientific research confirmed by the famous endocrinologist James B. Brown. This method is based on the simple recognition of natural signs of fertility that appear for a few days during the woman\'s menstrual cycle. Family of the Americas (FAF) was instrumental in simplifying the teaching and charting system of the Ovulation Method that made it applicable for universal use.
By keeping accurate records, a woman can now confidently identify the fertile and infertile phases of her cycle. Women with long or irregular cycles, breast-feeding mothers, and even those going through pre-menopause or discontinuing artificial methods of family planning may use the Ovulation Method safely and effectively.
CONDOMS
- Facts
- Thin rubber or latex sheath worn over the erect penis during intercourse
- Condoms are not in cool, dry place the rubber deteriorate; likewise, condoms have limited “shelf life” as condom materials deteriorate over time
- Use of lubricants and/or spermicides can cause condom failure by accelerating deterioration of condom rubber
- Potential Side Effects
- Effective only 84 to 88 percent of the time, at best. (Chance of pregnancy over one-year use is one in six.)
- Unmarried minority women the failure rate of condoms is even higher, some 36 percent; among unmarried Hispanic women the failure rate is as high as 44.5 percent
- Contrary to claims that condoms can be an effective means of preventing veneral diseases the spread of HIV, the fact is that the human immunodeficiency virus is 500 times smaller than a human sperm. Obviously, since condoms fail anywhere from 12 to 44 percent of the time in preventing pregnancy, they are even less
- Effective in preventing the transmission of this tiny virus.
HIV/AIDS
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a fatal disease that shows no symptoms for long periods and is usually spread or contracted unknowingly. Contrary to claims that condom use during intercourse is “safe sex,” even their most glowing advocates must admit that these devices work, at best, only 88 percent of the time – that users have more than a ten percent chance of catching a 100 percent fatal disease. Other studies indicate a mere 70 percent success rate for condoms – a nearly one in three risk of contracting HIV.There exists direct evidence of voids in condom rubber. Electron micrographs reveal voids of 5 microns in size (50 times larger than the virus) while fracture mechanics analyses, sensitive to the largest flaws present, suggest inherent flaws as large as the [sic] 50 microns (500 times the size of the virus).”
Over the course of a year, the average woman whose partner uses condoms has a one in six chance of becoming pregnant. The chance of contracting AIDS is even higher since HIV is 500 times smaller than a human sperm and 1/10th to 1/3rd the size of the smallest detectable hole in a condom. Moreover, while a woman can become pregnant only 100 hours each month, due to the nature of her ovulatory cycle, HIV can be transmitted at any time.
Whether among heterosexuals or homosexuals, AIDS is clearly linked to promiscuous and/or unnatural sexual activity, such as sodomy (anal intercourse), as well as intravenous drug use.
SPERMICIDES
- Facts
- Available in many forms, including creams, jellies, suppositories, aerosol foam and foam tablets
- Only 74.8 percent effective
- Mode of Action
- Form chemical barrier at opening to uterus that prevents sperm from reaching egg in uterus; may also destroy or damage sperm
- Potential Side Effects
- Greater incidence of these congenital disorders in innocent children who are conceived during use of spermicides: Down\'s Syndrome, limb reduction malformations, malignant neoplasms (cancerous tissue growths) and severe hypospadias
- Increased chance of vaginal infections because absorption of spermicide alters vagina\'s normal chemical environment
- Possible link to increased risk of HIV
DIAPHRAGM
- Facts
- Flexible metal ring covered with rubber in shape of shallow dome
- Only 84. 1 percent effective
- Risk of failure is approximately doubled when the user is less than 30 years old or has intercourse 4 times or more weekly
- Mode of Action
- Placed in vagina to completely encircle the cervix and to prevent sperm from entering the uterus
- Usually used with spermicidal jelly or cream applied to side of dome facing cervix
- Potential side effects
- New England Journal of Medicine reports evidence of link between diaphragm use and toxic shock syndrome
- Local skin irritation caused by sensitivity or allergy
STERILIZATION (Female)
- Facts
- More or less irreversible technique for preventing conception
- Two kinds:
a. Tubal Ligation or electrocoagulation, which seals off Fallopian tubes and prevents passage of eggs between ovaries and uterus (overall failure rate of .15 percent)
b. hysterectomy, which removes uterus
- Potential Side Effects
- Severe bleeding
- Pelvic infection
- Ectopic pregnancy (risk as much as three times higher)
- Subsequent hysterectomy because of severe menstrual problems
- Death due to anesthesia, perforation of aorta, and bowel burns
- Post-operative depression
- Sexual dysfunction
- Risk of later desire for sterilization reversal
- Women who have had tubal ligations report more cramping than they were accustomed to previously, and chances of pregnancy after tubal ligation are two to five percent
STERILIZATION (Male)
- Facts
- Called vasectomy – virtually irreversible operation that removes a piece of both the left and the right vas deferens (tubes through which sperm travel from the testes to the prostate) and ties off ends
- May not be effective for up to three months because of residual sperm cells
- Failure rate of .15 percent; recannulation (re-establishment of vas deferens by internal healing process) occurs in 1 case per 1,000
- Potential Side Effects
- Sperm production is same as before, about 50,000 spermatozoa every minute. However, sperm are not ejaculated so they enter the bloodstream where antibodies are produced to remove the sperm from the bodily system. This can lead to thyroid and joint disorders, heart and circulatory diseases, and diabetes. When the body activates defenses to ward off cells of its own making, as after a vasectomy, the body becomes “auto-immune” (allergic to itself). Several studies have found such antibodies generated in response to sperm antigens in 55 to 75 percent of patients within two years after their vasectomies.
- Two studies in the United States have found that men with vasectomies have an 85-90 percent higher risk of being diagnosed later with prostate cancer than men who elect not to have the surgery.
- Psychological difficulties, including anxiety and feelings of low self-worth, decreased sexual desire. A standard personality disorder test found that over 40 percent of one vasectomy study group experienced personality disturbances between their first testing and testing a year later, after the operation.
- Increased risk of kidney problems, including kidney stones.
The only surgery that is done deliberately to destroy the natural functioning of sound, healthy organs, sterilization-for-birth control is an extreme act of self-mutilation that often has a profound negative effect on the personal relationship between husband and wife. “Having made their love lifeless,” as one observer puts it, “sterilized couples deprive each other of the miraculous gift of combined fertility, a truly wonderful gift that would otherwise enable them to be cooperators with God in the conception of new life.” That\'s certainly one way to take the “magic” out of one\'s marriage.
ABORTION
INDUCED ABORTION
It is fitting that our discussion of artificial methods of birth control lead to a discussion of abortion, because the contraceptive mentality (saying "No" to the potential for new life) and abortion (eliminating new life) are clearly entwined.
- Facts
- All forms of induced abortion involve the premeditated killing of the unborn baby in the mother\'s womb
- More than 1.5 million annually in the United States alone
- Estimated 46 million abortions around the world annually as reported by the World Health Organization, "Reproductive Health, A Key to a brighter Future," June 1992.
- However, most artificial methods of birth control act as abortifacients, (the Pill, The Patch, the Intra-uterine Device, the Norplant, etc). Therefore, more abortions are taking place chemically and mechanically than surgically. Since abortions are linked to cancer and heart disease, as recently reported by the World Health Organization in July 2005, it coincides with the high incidence of such deadly diseases on women worldwide.
| Introduction to the National Cancer Institute Funded Study of Risk of Breast Cancer in Women under Age 45 Who Had Induced Abortion (s) The breast is the site of the most frequent malignancy in the human female population. Breast cancer is the second in mortality (cancer deaths in women). A woman’s risk of breast cancer is influenced by her reproductive history. Reserchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle found that women who had been pregnant at least once and who had an abortion face a 50% greater risk of developing breast cancer than those who had never had an abortion. The risk was highest among those who had never had an abortion. The risk was highest among those who had abortions before age 18 or after age 30. Within these two groups, the risk of breast cancer increases if the abortion occurs between the eighth and twelfth weeks of pregnancy. The theory that this study supports is that the link between breast cancer risk and induced abortion is due to differentiation in breast lobular structures. The mammary gland seems to be the only organ that is not fully developed at birth. It changes dramatically in size, shape and function in response to growth, puberty, preganancy and laction. It is known that women with a history of early, full-term pregnancy are at lower risk for developing breast cancer than those who have never had a child. Differentiation of breast structures has been credited with this protective effect since carcinomas originate in undifferentiated cells (Lobule type 1 and, on occasion, type 2). When pregnancy is terminated by abortion, cell differentiation does not occur, thus increasing the number of cells susceptible to cancer-causing agents. When abortion takes place prior to the second trimester, cells have not yet progressed to Lobule 3 stage. Undifferentiated Lobule types 1 and 2 predominate, increasing the possibility of tumors. Source: Jornal of the National Cancer Institute, 86, no. 21 (November 2 1994). |
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Abortion Methods and Their Complications
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- Early Abortion
SUCTION or DILATION AND CURETTAGE (D&C)
Most abortions are done using these methods at around eleven to twelve weeks gestation. It is important to note that, as early as nine weeks, the unborn baby responds to touch and can feel pain. The fetal heart is beating, and eyes, fingers and toes are distinguishable. In a suction abortion, the abortionist inserts a long hollow tube through the cervix and then, with powerful vacuum force, tears the placenta away from the uterine wall, dismembering the baby (fetus) and drawing his remains into an attached jar. In a D&C, the abortionist inserts a loop-shaped knife into the mother\'s dilated cervix and by scraping the uterine wall, dismembers the baby (fetus). To ensure that the procedure is complete and no body parts remain in the womb (where they may cause infection), the abortionist or nurse must "reassemble" the fetal body to ensure that head, torso, and limbs are present. (A similar procedure, dilation and evacuation [D&E], "extends both the traditional D and C and the vacuum curettage into the second trimester. D and E is especially appropriate for procedures done in the range of 13 – 16 weeks gestation, although many proponents use this method up through 20+ weeks.")41 Hatcher et al., Contraceptive Technology, p. 45i.
Complications include:- laceration of cervix by suction apparatus or knife
- hemorrhage
- perforated uterus
- laceration of urinary bladder and ureters
- pulmonary embolism (air bubble in bloodstream)
- laceration of bowel and subsequent infection
- shock
- reactions to anesthesia, including bronchial obstruction, anaphylactic shock, and cardiac arrest
- reaction to blood transfusion
- laparotomy (surgical section of abdominal wall)
- hysterectomy
- retained tissue
- death of mother
- much higher risk of developing breast cancer. Women who abort their first pregnancy almost double their chance of developing breast cancer. The Deadly After-Effect of Abortion-Breast Cancer, pamphlet published by Hayes Publishing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
- Late Abortion
SALINE
After sixteen weeks, the baby (fetus) is too large to be killed by the procedures mentioned above, so abortionists resort to saline injection (salt poisoning). It is important to note that, since eleven weeks gestation, all of the baby\'s organs have been complete and functioning. At sixteen weeks, medical photographers and ultrasonographers have pictured unborn babies kicking and swimming — even sucking their thumbs. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 77,000 American babies are aborted each year at this age or older.
In a saline abortion, the abortionist inserts a long needle through the mother\'s abdomen, siphons off some of the amniotic fluid that protects the baby and replaces that amount with a saline (salt) solution that both poisons the baby as he swallows and burns away his skin. The mother goes into labor and delivers a dead infant.
Complications include:- transplacental hemorrhage
- reactions to anesthesia
- hypernatremia
- edema (swelling) of brain
- convulsions
- coma
- kidney failure
- heart failure
- failure to abort after death of baby
- baby born alive and badly burned
Similar to saline abortions are those by the injection of prostaglandins (powerful hormones that induce violent labor and premature birth). Abortionists may inject toxin to kill the baby first. "Clinicians are performing an increasing percentage of second trimester instillation abortions by combinations of the just described methods." 45 Hatcher et al., Contraceptive Technology, p. 453.
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Late Abortion
HYSTEROTOMY
Similar to a cesarean section, this late-term form of abortion involves removal of the baby from the uterus. The child is killed or left to die.
Complications include:- hemorrhage
- reaction to blood transfusion
- reaction to anesthesia
- hysterectomy
- high mortality rate for mothers
- RU-486
Also known as the "abortion pill," RU-486 actually involves a cumbersome and expensive four-step regimen that includes the taking of several powerful drugs and at least four visits to the abortionist. Janice Raymond, self-proclaimed "feminist" and associate director of the Institute on Women and Technology at MIT, says, "Claims that RU 486 abortion is private and demedicalized are belied by the number of medical visits and the whole drug cocktail a woman may be exposed to. "Susan Ince, "The Trouble with RU486," Vogue, July 1991, p. 88. By preventing the action of progesterone in the womb, RU-486 works as an abortifacient for the first eight to ten weeks after conception. RU-486 is used with prostaglandins (misoprostol) to increase lethality.
Complications include:- nausea
- vomiting
- diarrhea
- severe and sometimes prolonged bleeding (in some women, even two months after discontinuance) In a recent clinical study in Britain, five hundred eighty-eight women were given abortions with RU-48 combined with the prostaglandin gemeprost. Five of the women bled so much that they required transfusions. One hundred sixty-six of them needed narcotics to ease the pain... Thirty five failed to abort and had to undergo a follow-up surgical procedure. And together they averaged more than twenty days of heavy bleeding afterwards." George Grant, The Quick and the Dead:RU-486 and the New Chemical Warfare against Your Family (Wheaton, Ill.: Good News Publishers, 1991), p. 50. Cities August 1991 issue of the American Druggist.
- failure to expel baby (this happens in one out of every twenty cases, Grant, Quick and the Dead, p. 53. so another method of abortion is sought)
- cardiovascular shock
- maternal death Ibid., p. 51 When the first maternal deaths were reported in 1991, the French Ministry of Health devised stringent new regulations for the use of RU-486.
- PROSTAGLANDIN-INDUCED ABORTION
As mentioned under entry for saline abortion and RU-486, prostaglandins are powerful hormones that induce violent contractions of the womb and expulsion of the baby.
Complications include:- retained fetal tissue
- readmission for surgery
- septicemia (massive infection)
- pelvic inflammatory disease
- peritonitis
- blood dyscrasias — afibrinogenanemia (failure of blood to clot)
- bleeding
- lung abscess (aspiration of vomitus during anesthesia)
- deep vein thrombosis
- death of mother
- Post-Abortion Syndrome
- DILATION AND EXTRACTION (D&X)
Developed by an abortionist who notes that "most surgeons find [fetal] dismemberment at 20 weeks and beyond to be difficult due to the toughness of fetal tissues at this stage," D&X requires the mother\'s cervix to be dilated and the placenta (bag of waters) to be broken. The abortionist\'s assistant then uses ultrasound to scan the mother\'s abdomen and to locate the lower extremities of the unborn baby. Using forceps, the abortionist pulls the baby, by its legs, down into the vagina. The abortionist uses his hands to pull the fetal arms and shoulders from the womb and to turn the baby on his or her stomach. The baby\'s head, which is too large to pass through, remains lodged at the cervix. Holding sharp, curved scissors, the abortionist follows the curve of the fetal spine to find the base of the skull. "He then forces the scissors into the base of the skull. Having entered the skull he then spreads the scissors to enlarge the opening. He then removes the scissors and introduces a suction catheter into the hole and evacuates the skull contents." Once the skull is empty, it is more readily crushed, enabling the baby\'s body to be removed entirely from his or her mother. This is the D&X procedure as described by Ohio abortionist Martin Haskell, who claims to have performed more than seven hundred such procedures in his two offices.50 Dr. Martin Haskell, paper presented at the National Abortion Federation Risk Management Seminar, Dallas Texas, September 13, 1992. Several states, including Ohio, and at least one U.S. Congressional Representative have drafted legislation that, if enacted and enforced, would prohibit these partial-birth killings. Some two hundred of these procedures are done each year in the state of Ohio alone.
In September, 1993 Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse with thirteen years of experience, was assigned by her nursing agency to an abortion clinic. Since Nurse Shafer considered herself "very pro-choice, " she didn\'t think this assignment would be a problem. She was wrong.
This is what Nurse Shafer saw:
I stood at the doctor\'s side and watched him perform a partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant. The baby\'s heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby\'s body and arms, everything but his little head. The baby\'s body was moving. His little fingers were clasping together. He was kicking his feet. The doctor took a pair of scissors and inserted them into the back of the baby\'s head, and the baby\'s arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. Then the doctor opened the scissors up. Then he stuck the high-powered suction tube into the hole and sucked the baby\'s brains out. Now the baby was completely limp.
I never went back to the clinic. But I am still haunted by the face of that little boy. It was the most perfect, angelic face I have ever seen.
The "Partial Birth Abortion" Bill, which would have made this technique illegal, was vetoed by President Clinton on April 10, 1996.
- Early Abortion
- Effects of Abortion on Subsequent Childbearing
- potential sterility
- 50 percent increase in spontaneous miscarriage
- 200 percent increase in ectopic pregnancy
All forms of abortion may include a reaction to or admission of participation in death of one\'s own infant. This may manifest itself as severe and prolonged depression, mourning, sense of loss (sometimes delayed for years), plus: - 40 percent increase in mental retardation among children
- prolonged labor
- rupture of uterine scar (post-hysterectomy)
- development of Rh antibodies in Rh-negative mother
- cervical incompetence (after early abortions) resulting in miscarriages
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