There are facts and truths that "sexual libertarians" don't want society or public opinion to know, that even they don't want to know. To sum up those facts - accumulated in different human cultures and societies - we don't need sex to live a full life and be content. To define one's identity on the basis of our sexuality alone is to reduce our human value and dignity. I am a lot more than just my genitalia, and so are you. G.S.
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My purpose in these posts is to bring together significant and, where possible, representative echoes of our best human efforts to make sense of our lives - and of our human sexuality in particular - also including the voice of Jesus Christ, the one Saviour of the world, and testimonies from his Church, such as through her teaching voice, the Magisterium. The Church has been accumulating much valuable wisdom granted her by Almighty God since her foundation at Pentecost. In this way, wherever there is darkness in our human understanding, it will serve to highlight the bright and radiant truth, which is Jesus Christ: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also." John's Gospel 14:6-7
Father Gilles Surprenant, priest & poustinik
In each case, please go to the link for the complete article.
BIRTH CONTROL -- CONDOMS -- CONTRACEPTION -- PREGNANCY
WARNING: "SAFE SEX" DOES NOT EXIST - THIS EXPRESSION IS A MYTH
AVERTISSEMENT: LE "SEXE PROTÉGÉ" N'EXISTE PAS - C'EST UN MYTHE
(1) Birth Control in Canada VS Rome? (2) Birth Control Kills after Conception
(3) Contraception for Population Control ? (4) Birth Control Pill Reduces Well Being
(5) Birth Control Side Effects (6) Contraception = Slavery for Women ?
(7) Contraception - the Effects - les Effets
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A brief history of the birth control pill By Alexandra Nikolchev May 7, 2010
Antiquity: Ancient Egyptian women use a combination of cotton, dates, honey and acacia as a suppository, and it turns out fermented acacia really does have a spermicidal effect. The Bible and the Koran both refer to coitus interruptus (the withdrawal method).
1914-1921 Activist Margaret
Sanger coins the term “birth control,”
opens first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and starts the
American Birth Control League, the precursor to Planned Parenthood.
1934 Endocrinologist Gregory Pincus creates a test tube rabbit — and is vilified as a Frankenstein.
1951 Sanger
and Pincus meet at a dinner party in New York; she persuades him to
work on a birth control pill.
1951 Meanwhile, Carl
Djerassi, a chemist in Mexico City, creates a
pill by synthesizing hormones from Mexican yams. On a chemical level, the pill
has been invented, but Djerassi isn’t equipped to test, produce or distribute
it.
1952 The
race is on. Pincus tests progesterone in rats and
finds it works. He meets gynecologist John Rock, who has already begun testing
chemical contraception in women. Frank Colton, chief chemist at the
pharmaceutical company Searle, also independently develops synthetic
progesterone.
1953 If
Sanger is the activist behind the pill and Pincus the scientist, Katherine
McCormick — biologist, women’s rights
activist and heiress to a great fortune — is the money. She writes Pincus a
check for $40,000 to conduct research.
1954 Rock
and Pincus conduct the first human trials on 50 women in Massachusetts. It
works.
1956 Large
scale clinical trials are conducted in Puerto
Rico, where there were no anti-birth control laws on the books. The pill is
deemed 100 percent effective, but some serious side effects are ignored.
1957 The FDA
approves the pill, but only for severe menstrual disorders, not as a
contraceptive. An unusually large number of women report severe menstrual
disorders.
1960 The
pill is approved for contraceptive use.
1962 It’s an
instant hit. After two years, 1.2 million Americans women are on the pill;
after three years, the number almost doubles, to 2.3 million.
1964 But the
pill is still controversial: It remains illegal in eight states. The Pope
convenes the Commission on Population, the Family and Natality; many within the
Catholic Church are in favor.
1965 Five
years after the FDA approval, 6.5 million
American women are on pill, making it the most popular form of birth control in
the U.S.
1967 The
controversy over the pill takes on a new dimension when African-American
activists charge that Planned Parenthood, by providing the pill in poor,
minority neighborhoods, is committing genocide.
1968 Pope
Paul VI ultimately declares his opposition to the pill in the Humanae Vitae encyclical.
1969 Barbara
Seaman publishes The Doctor’s Case Against the Pill, which
exposes side effects including the risk of blood clots, heart attack, stroke,
depression, weight gain and loss of libido.
1970 Senate
hearings on the safety of the pill are disrupted by women demanding a voice on
the issue.
1979 Sales
of the pill drop by 24 percent in four years due to publicity about health
risks.
1988 The original high-dose pill is taken off the market; an FDA study shows the heath benefits of newer pills, including a decreased risk of ovarian cancer, iron deficiency anemia and pelvic inflammatory disease.
Tri-Cyclen
1997 Not
just a contraceptive any more — the FDA approves Ortho Pharmaceutical’s
Tri-Cyclen pill as treatment for acne.
2000 The
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rules that prescription contraception
must be covered by health insurance offered by employers.
2003 The FDA
approves Seasonale,
a pill that gives women only four periods a year.
2007 What
could be next? Lybrel makes
the annoying period a thing of the past for those willing to try it.
2010 Fifty years after the FDA approval, problems remain: there are currently 1,100 lawsuits pending against Bayer Healthcare Corporation regarding blood clots, heart attacks and strokes allegedly caused by the popular pills Yaz, Yazmin and the generic Ocella.
Last modified: May 7, 2010 at 4:59 pm
(1) Birth Control in Canada by Msgr. Vincent Foy - self published: PDF version
Paperback edition available HERE
(2) Birth Control Kills after Conception - Did you know? Commonly-Used Birth Control Kills After Conception.... PDF version published by QLC - Québec Life Coalition
(3) Birth Control Pill Reduces Well Being - New study: Birth control pills reduce women's well-being - shared by CNA - Catholic News Agency - according to Professor Angelica Linden Hirschberg, one of the study’s leaders, according to the Karolinska Institute.
(4) Birth Control Side Effects - .- For the millions of women using hormonal birth control, side effects are nothing new. Headaches, mood swings and weight gain are all commonly reported side effects, not to mention more serious problems such as blood clots and migraines. But a new, long-term Danish study is now showing a strong connection between hormonal contraception and another adverse effect: the risk of depression, particularly among teens. (Go to the link for full article.)
(5) Contraception for Population Control ? "International Population-Control Machine and the Pathfinder Fund" by Randy Engel, Human Life Center, Collegeville MN
(6) Contraception = Slavery for Women ? "Are we less free than a 1950s housewife? A look at contraception" By Ann Schneible for CNA - Catholic News Agency - .- What started as a means to liberate women seems to have taken an ironic twist.
(7) Contraception - the Effects - What are the effects for the couple who employ contraception? Quels sont les effets pour le couple qui emploi la contraception ? Par Vivere Canada
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