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(HealthDay News) -- Women taking birth control pills, especially those who have just started taking them, may face an increased risk of developing the autoimmune disease lupus, a new study suggests. Although the link between lupus and oral contraceptives has been debated for some time, this new study adds weight to earlier studies -- including the Nurses' Health Study -- that have shown a link between oral contraceptives and lupus, the study authors said. The findings were published in the April issue of Arthritis Care & Research. Click here for the full article. H/T: American Life League.

An eminent doctor writing for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has stated that hormones from the contraceptive pill are causing a significant rise in male infertility in western nations. Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, President of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC), writes that "we have sufficient data to affirm that one of the reasons for the not insignificant rise in male infertility in the west (due to increasingly fewer sperm in men), is the environmental contamination caused by 'the pill'." MORE ~ Via LifeSite News , H/T: American Life League.

The Vatican’s official newspaper has caused a media storm in the European press with an article asserting the abortifacient and carcinogenic effects of hormonal contraceptives. The Italian edition of L’Osservatore Romano carries an article this week on a report by the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC) that was created to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae, the document by Pope Paul VI that reiterated the Catholic Church’s teaching on artificial birth control. Pedro José María Simón Castellví, the president of FIAMC, wrote that “the means of contraception violate at least five important rights: the right to life, the right to health, the right to education, all right to information (their spread is at the expense of information on natural resources) and the right to equality between the sexes (the burden of contraception falls mostly on women).” “Curiously”, Castelvi wrote, this information on the abortifacient effect of...

Even With More Women on Birth Control, Many Don't Hear About the Variety of Side Effects Now even the mainstream media is reporting the adverse side effects of the pill. ABC News reports the following: 1. There is a risk of blood clots among smokers, high blood pressure, and stroke with some migraine headaches. 2. Women on the pill may suffer a lackluster sex drive, mood swings, or even extra sinus pressure. 3. Women may choose a mate they would not otherwise be attracted to. 4. Women may have a libido problem. 5. Women may experience heartburn, or constipation, or sleep disturbances, either as insomnia or extra sleepiness. 6. It can lead to greater difficulty conceiving and increase the likelihood of miscarriages . H/T: Suzanne at Big Blue Wave. Related Posts: The Pill Kills New Booklet Outlines Frightening Facts about Contraception The Evils of Planned Parenthood; What You Can Do to Stop Them The Latest Defective Device in Birth Control Newest Version of Birth Control Pill Inc...

Catholic Exchange - May 8, 2008: The Pill Kills -- Believe it or Not by Judie Brown

Via LifeSite News : Without a single reference to a Church document or a passage of Scripture, a new booklet from author Victor Claveau demonstrates that popular contraceptives, considered hallmarks of our modern culture and signs of civilized man's technological conquest of nature, kill at least 6 million US children a year, subject women to a host of harmful side effects, subvert the meaning of sex and family life, and have played a key role in a black genocide. Claveau's 28-page "'Birth Control and Abortifacients' begins with a detailed analysis of the various standard methods of contraception, noting their abortifacient action and harmful side effects on women. Claveau pays particular attention to the popular birth control pills that have been widely accepted, even by professedly "pro-life" women, as a means to reduce the sort of unwanted pregnancies that often end in abortion. Birth control pills artificially flood a woman's body with high levels...