As the Daily Wire reported yesterday, a new study shows that the birth control pill increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer by 38%. This may be a new study but it’s not new information. It’s always been understood that women are taking profound risks with their bodies when they ingest hormones for years on end. Understood, at least, by medical professionals. Whether this information is reliably communicated to the patient is another question entirely.
We are living in a strange time. Americans — younger Americans in particular — are obsessed with organic food, and grass fed beef, and free range chickens, and so on. We try our best to avoid “chemicals” and anything that we have judged to be “artificial.” We want desperately to live a “natural” and “simple” lifestyle. Yet, for the most part, we have not extended this principle to birth control. We laugh like Cecile Richards at natural forms of family planning while insisting on the natural form of everything else.
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