I think that we are missing the bigger picture people. regardless of why woman take birth control or not this will cause mass confusion and panic!

Well Sam, the comment I originally posted was removed due to explicit language, but it boils down to this: Karma can be rather unfortunate, and I wonder what it will look like when you "get what you deserve".

Gary--- but they can have sex now anytime they want it that's why they think its better now. They don't know self control it's a selfish world now if I want it now I deserve to have it now. Well you get what you deserver.

Basically, the medical and scientific field is short-sighted. When a solution to something is developed (in this case, unwanted pregnancy), often times, the ramifications for that aren't discovered until years, decades even later. Makes me wonder what the medical profession/scientists will discover in the future about this New pill that they are advocating, whereby women don't even have to have a period?!? Doctors say that periods are not necessary. Well how the h*** do they truly know? Women evolved to have monthly periods for a REASON... even if that reason is not yet discernible or apparent to modern medical and research scientists. I believe in birth control but just because I believe in it doesn't mean that I am (nor have to be) ignorant to consequences of what taking it might do to our bodies. C'mon now, you have to admit that replacing our hormones with synthetic ones is sort of scary. Medical advances can often have a benefit our bodies in one respect but have negative repercussions in other aspect. Such is life. It's not black or white, it's grey. ~ Tonya (who is Christian, pro-choice, for sex education, but against giving BCP to children under 15-16 w/o parental consent, and who is riddled with other such contradictions).

I would like to know why all of you assume everyone takes the pill because they don't want children. Maybe you should not be so judgemental and think about that people that HAVE to be on the pill for medical reasons such as anemia.

Take a pill to change your natural body process and suffer the consequences. Can't believe how stupid people are when it comes to messing with the bodies natural function.

Estrogen in the Womens Health Initiative was found to increase heart attacks and clots and stroke. The KRONOS study is attempting to see if estrogen only will prevent heart disease in early menopause, when heart disease is lower than later anyway, so this is bogus. Estrogen caused arteriolar rigidity, a setup for plaques. The truth is, reversible vasectomies are easy to do and don't kill ANYBODY. Men should have to have a license NOT to have one, then women wouldn't have to endanger their lives and there wouldn't be so many abortions.

Add to this that nearly every epidemiolgic review shows higher breast cancer rates (only the latest one did not) and you will quickly conclude that the birth control pill was designed FOR MEN. To hell with womens' health. And it's so easy to make a man infertile, even reversibly, but oh no, don't touch their manliness...just kill women instead.

Divorce wasn't pandemic. Children were raised by their biological parents who were married to each other. VD wasn't rampant. Women could expect their husbands to stay with them until they died. Child abuse was far less. Poverty due to single parenting was far less. Children weren't being medicated at all time high rates. The list is endless. Are you still trying to articulate the ridiculous line that people are better off today?

I would say that the older pills were probably more reliable against causing harm than today's pills which seem to do anything you want them -- and the mix the progesteron and estrogen is a lot different than it used to be. Actually most of today's are generic's of generic's of the actuals -- but supposedly they are just as good for you. Not, someone has just figured out how to make more money by fooling around with the formula.

What's wrong with sex without consequence? Our grandmothers were saddled with having a kid per year, usually having 3 in diapers at a time, and no "Huggies" brand throw aways; you had to wash the damn diapers by hand or by old-fashioned wringer washers. Oh yes, and then hang them out to dry, along with the rest of your family's laundry. All that and you had to take care of the older kids and cook and clean and can food so you'd have it for the winter... sex to them meant another pregnancy so who would want it???? Men get to enjoy sex without fear of putting their bodies through another pregnancy, so women should be able to do so too.

If we really cared about our children as they did 100 years ago we would have long ago stormed the bastille. These people have no regard for your children because they know you won't do anything about it. They don't see any consequences for pushing birth control pills for 11 year old girls. Shame on all of us.

There is NO way that they are going to disclose the full truth about birth control pills. They not only represent a substantial market but they serve as a 'cause celebre' for feminists. If they had proof beyond a shawdow of a doubt that they are harmful in the long run it still wouldn't make a difference. Women want to have sex without any consequences.

This is just another example on what happens when you try to stop the body's natural process.

What kind of birth control are they referring to? Is the progesterone or the estrogen the offender? We need more information, please.

& we want schools to give out these prescription medications so parents don't have to get involved ?????