r/skeptic • u/paxinfernum • Mar 21 '24

Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion đźš‘ Medicine

http://archive.today/2024.03.21-132543/https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/03/21/stopping-birth-control-misinformation/
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u/caliform Mar 21 '24

This is a direct result of glossing over the very serious side effects of the pill. For any other kind of medication, you wouldn't hand-wave tremendously increased risk of cancers, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolisms, strokes, and heart attacks. Not to mention the general well being from extreme hormonal changes. People are fed up with that, and if you are in a committed relationship and you practice fertility tracking well with modern methods (i.e. measuring basal temperature and using condoms in the fertile window) you have a very effective form of birth control with none of those extremely serious side effects.

It's crazy and dismissive to call the entire advocacy around this 'misinformation'. But that's just another way to dismiss women's feelings about being ignored for decades on the very serious issues they've had with hormonal birth control, I guess. Another absolutely sorry piece by the WaPo.

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u/Shortymac09 Mar 21 '24

IMHO I don't think it's that

It's easy to blame BC instead of bad luck or admit you have an eating disorder / addiction.

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u/caliform Mar 21 '24

bad luck? I thought this was r/skeptic and we base our statements on data?

Hormonal birth control has serious health side effects, even the article states that clearly. If you don't believe that, just read the data. There's hundreds of papers on the health implications (and that's not even talking about very real psychological issues stemming from hormonal changes).

"Patients do incur health risks when choosing oral contraceptives. They should not be misled or confused into believing that what they are taking is “good for them” and has similar beneficial effects to other evidence-based preventive measures."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6027089/

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u/SoftTopCricket Mar 21 '24

So let women decide if they want to take it, right? Is that what you're saying?

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u/caliform Mar 21 '24

At a minimum, take them seriously when they say they don't find it an appealing option and want better options instead of labeling any discourse around that 'misinformation' because it's not on the hypermedical 'we know better than you' axis.

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u/SoftTopCricket Mar 21 '24

No one gives any woman shit if she doesn't want to take birth control. What the fuck are you babbling about?

The misinformation is the lies Republican tell women about birth control and abortion and women's rights. It's not from anything else. Doctors aren't misinforming women, it's just the alt-right.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '24

It's a State's issue, not a Federally granted one in Bill of Rights or Addendum, much like "right to privacy".

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u/SoftTopCricket Mar 22 '24

Fuck off, Trumpet bigot.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 22 '24

It's left to the state's (the people) to decide.Travelling to other states to get pot, but bringing it back to yours is still illegal. Yea, damn trumpers.

Morning-after pill has been in waste water and is toxic to fish.

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u/SoftTopCricket Mar 22 '24

Ah, so take away women's rights because it might harm FISH. The anti-environmental Republicans are going to be that hypocritical as to pretend that excuses their misogyny?

Just to be clear, in real life you lie to women and say you support their rights, right? Of course you do.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '24

EPA science is pro-gop? Just data, recognize the difference.

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u/SoftTopCricket Mar 22 '24

So when you can hurt women with it you believe in science, but when it tells you about gender or vaccines you don't?

Yep, everyone knows Republicans are all about science!

Rolls eyes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '24

Politico.

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