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Birth Control Pill Risks

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	[http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/evangelical-group-releases-documentary-charging-that-the-pill-is-an-abortifacient/] More information can be found at: www.28daysonthepill.com		[http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/evangelical-group-releases-documentary-charging-that-the-pill-is-an-abortifacient/] More information can be found at: www.28daysonthepill.com
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		+	==OTHER RISKS==
		+	FDA panel proposes spermicide warning because it may cause vaginal irritations and increase a woman's chances of contracting AIDS virus ("Spermicide Controversy," Associated PRess newswire, 11/22/96)
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		+	Birth control pill may increase vaginal transmission of AIDS ("Hormone May Raise HIV Risk in Women," Wash. Times 10/1/96, pA9)
		+	Pill increases breast cancer risk for up to 10 years after discontinued, (The Lancet, vol. 347:1713-1727, 6/22/96)
		+	Pill increases risk of death from vascular complications 1.9 times and risk of cervical cancerup 2.5 times. British Medical Journal, January 5, 1999.
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		+	Birth control pill may lead to a permanent reduction in libido. BOSTON, May 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com)The researchers studied the use of the pill on 124 women at a sexual dysfunction clinic. Those who continued taking the Pill had four times the normal SHBG levels of women who had never taken it. Those women in the study who stopped taking the pill at the beginning of the study still had twice the normal level of SHBG after a year. The team's research leader, Dr Claudia Panzer, an endocrinologist at the Boston University Medical Center, said the study indicated that the loss of libido might not be reversible.
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		+	In a 1996 survey of 486 abortion patients at an urban clinice, 40% reported a history of physical or sexual abuse, Family Planning Perspectives Sept/Oct 1998.
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		+	See www.bcpinstitute.org brochure: "If it's not OK for him to take sterioids...why is it OK for her?"
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		+	==birth control pill==
		+	ESTROGEN LINKED TO CANCER: The National Toxicology Program advisory committee voted 8-1 that steroidal estrogen -- a type used in post-menopausal treatments and birth control pills -- should be placed
		+	on the nation's list of cancer-causing substances. The committee found an association with endometrial cancer, and to a lesser extent, breast cancer. (Reading: "Panel Puts Estrogen on Cancer List," New York Times,12/15/00)
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		+	Environmental risks of PIll
		+	Endocrine disruption research from the fish physiology research group at Brunel University: full of solid information. http://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/FPRG/endocrine_disruption_1.htm
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		+	Alan Watson writes to a newsgroup that the writing is on the wall for hormone chemicals; these are not just real or synthetic human hormones such as oestrogen and oestradiol, and are not just from the contraceptive pill, but are a wide range of substances from a large number of industrial sources. http://lists.essential.org/1998/dioxin-l/msg00083.html
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		+	Thomas Hutchinson from Astra-Zeneca talks about European research on endocrine disruptors in the aquatic environment: most UK rivers have a staggeringly high percentage of intersexed male fish. The highest percentages of intersexed fish are found in rivers which drain water from heavily inhabited or industrial areas. A wide-ranging talk. http://www.cheec.uiowa.edu/conferences/edc_2000/hutchinson.html
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		+	==Condom Risks==
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		+	Gjorgov AN .Stop the natural experimental trial in breast cancer because of rising incidence: summarizing the evidence. Eur J Cancer Prev. 1995 Feb;4(1):97-103.
		+	:Abstract
		+	:A survey has been conducted during the past decade (starting in 1980) of reported new cases of women with breast cancer, in order to assess the interim evidence of the natural experiment of the effect of increased use of condoms on the risk of breast cancer in the US. Age-adjusted incidence rates of breast cancer (to the world standard population) per 100,000 population, and trends of changes, in percentages, were used. Prior to the 1980s, breast cancer incidence was in decline in seven out of 13 centres in the country. Following the recommendations to use condoms in 'safer sex' campaigns, increases of breast cancer incidence were recorded during the 1980s, as a reflection of a global phenomenon. Between the 5 year periods of 1978-82 and 1983-87, the population of the nine Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results programme (SEER) centres (about 10% of the American population), increased by 2.9%, the number of breast cancer cases increased by 25.0%; the average annual breast cancer crude incidence rose by 21.5% (from 100.8 to 122.5 per 100,000). The increase in the average annual number of breast cancer cases during the period 1983-87 (the period of increased condom usage) was 4.5 times greater than that during the preceding period, 1978-82. During the 1980s, breast cancer trends rose significantly in the US among White women (P < 0.00001) and other ethnic groups (P < 0.005). The difference between the expected, 21%, and observed, 79%, probability of adverse effects occurring in the natural experimental trial was statistically significant (P = 0.0001).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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		+	[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1294788/?page=1 History of the condom: the overlooked adverse effects.] A Gjorgov
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		+	[http://www.mjms.ukim.edu.mk/Online/MJMS_2010_3_2/0104.htm Reproductive Health of Women: An Attempt to Define Prevention of Breast Cancer] Arne N. Gjorgov, MD, PhD
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-	Nancy Russo is a research psychologist at Arizona State University. She is a self-described feminist and pro-choice activist. She was a member of the [APA Abortion Report \|APA Task Force on ~~Abortion~~ and Mental Health] which was chaired by [[Brenda Major]]. She has held a number of high level positions with the American Psychological Association (APA) in particular with relation to pro-choice and feminist issues. Here work has been funded by the Population Council, Family Planning. She was one of the founding members of Division 34 of the APA dealing with population control issues and abortion.<ref>[http://apa34.cos.ucf.edu/pepb/PEPB253.pdf Population & Environmental Psychology Bulletin. The Newsletter of Division 34 of the American Psychological Association Vol. 25, No. 3, Autumn, 1999]</ref>	+	Nancy Russo is a research psychologist at Arizona State University. She is a self-described feminist and pro-choice activist. She was a member of the [[APA Abortion Report\|APA's Task Force on Abotion and Mental Health]] which was chaired by [[Brenda Major]]. She has held a number of high level positions with the American Psychological Association (APA) in particular with relation to pro-choice and feminist issues. Here work has been funded by the Population Council, Family Planning. She was one of the founding members of Division 34 of the APA dealing with population control issues and abortion.<ref>[http://apa34.cos.ucf.edu/pepb/PEPB253.pdf Population & Environmental Psychology Bulletin. The Newsletter of Division 34 of the American Psychological Association Vol. 25, No. 3, Autumn, 1999]</ref>

	According to her own vitae, "Dr. Nancy Felipe Russo 's research interests are foucused around Gender, violence, and health (physical, mental, and reproductive); women’s education, work, and careers, particularly in STEM fields; Hispanic women's issues; ethnic minority issues; psychology, law, and public policy; relationships among scientists, educators, and policy makers, women's studies."[http://psychology.clas.asu.edu/russo]		According to her own vitae, "Dr. Nancy Felipe Russo 's research interests are foucused around Gender, violence, and health (physical, mental, and reproductive); women’s education, work, and careers, particularly in STEM fields; Hispanic women's issues; ethnic minority issues; psychology, law, and public policy; relationships among scientists, educators, and policy makers, women's studies."[http://psychology.clas.asu.edu/russo]
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	* In ''''[http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/32/9/321 Abortion and mental health]'''' Fergusson, DM. ''The Psychiatrist'' (2008) 32: 321-324. (editorial), Fergusson does not buy into Russo's claims that her NLSY study refutes the finding of Reardon in Cougle. He describes that her study "purported to show that, '''when a different sample selection method was employed,''' there was no significant association between abortion and depression (full sample OR=1.33, 95% CI 0.84-2.10)" (emphasis added). He also noted that Russo and other commentators failed to note that "the NLSY data contained three major flaws that prevented clear conclusions from being drawn." Reardon and Cougle, by contrast, had discussed this limitation.		* In ''''[http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/32/9/321 Abortion and mental health]'''' Fergusson, DM. ''The Psychiatrist'' (2008) 32: 321-324. (editorial), Fergusson does not buy into Russo's claims that her NLSY study refutes the finding of Reardon in Cougle. He describes that her study "purported to show that, '''when a different sample selection method was employed,''' there was no significant association between abortion and depression (full sample OR=1.33, 95% CI 0.84-2.10)" (emphasis added). He also noted that Russo and other commentators failed to note that "the NLSY data contained three major flaws that prevented clear conclusions from being drawn." Reardon and Cougle, by contrast, had discussed this limitation.
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		+	==Commentary On Russo Comments and Causal Connections==
		+	[http://floridaindependent.com/7120/state-funded-pregnancy-clinics-disseminate-questionable-science-on-abortion From comments regarding Florida Independent article on Russo]
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		+	:Nancy Russo is not an unbiased reviewer. She is a radical pro-abortion feminist who in 2004 told a Toledo Blade science reporter, Jenni Laidman, that "whether or not an abortion creates psychological difficulties is not relevant." Her own research was dismissed by the same APA panel she served on for more severe methodological flaws than the studies she dismisses.
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		+	:She is on the forefront of the abortion-defense squad, doing everything she can to turn attention away from scores of well designed studies showing abortion is consistently statistically associated with negative emotional reactions, including substance abuse, elevated suicide rates, depression, anxiety, and more.
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		+	:She is serving exactly the same role as experts defending the cigarette industry did when they continued to raise the standards of proof required to prove causal connections between smoking to lung disease. Statistical associations, they rightly asserted, do not PROVE causal connection. It's just possible there may be some other explanation for the statistical association. For example, smokers may just be more likely to be painters who inhale toxic fumes from paint.
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		+	:The same strategy is being applied to the abortion debate. Deniers of mental health problems associated with abortion, led by Russo, cannot deny the fact that there are literally scores of studies showing significant statistical associations between abortion and mental health problems. So the only option left to them is to harp about the imperfections of the studies and focus on their last line of defense, the lack of definitive causal proof for each and every negative reaction that has been shown to be statistically linked to abortion.
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		+	:That line of defense is impregnable because it is simply impossible to prove a causal connection between any voluntary act and subsequent mental health. You simply can't do a randomized, double blind study with abortion (assigning a random sample of women to be impregnated and a random subset aborted and the others required to carry to term).
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		+	:As a result of this limitation, the simple fact is that every study has methodological weaknesses. Even the national record based studies in Finland showing that in the year following a pregnancy women who abort are six times more likely to commit suicide compared to women who give birth, can be dismissed as failing to prove that abortion, in and of itself was the sole cause of any of these suicides. Indeed, it is likely that abortion was not the sole cause of any of the suicides. On the other hand it is likely that it was a contributing cause to very many of these suicides.
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		+	:Another fact that Russo ignores is that the issue of causal connections can be addressed not through statistical tests so much as by listening to women.
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		+	:In the controversy about whether smoking causes lung disease, the assertion that a patient "knew" his cancer was caused by smoking (as opposed to painting) is not convincing because we can't self observe how our lungs are reacting to smoke and paint fumes.
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		+	:But with regard to psychological distress, it is a different matter. People are self-aware. We can and do observe how our minds are reacting to our experiences and past decisions. We may not observe ourselves perfectly, and we may at times deceive ourselves. But it is certainly anti-scientific and opposed to all of the principles of psychology to universally dismiss the self-assessment of the millions of women who have had abortions who say their grief over a past abortion is the cause of their ongoing psychological distress.
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		+	:The fact is that many women report something along the lines of: "I think about the abortion all the time. It makes me so depressed I think about suicide. I've tried to bury these feelings with alcohol."
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		+	:In addition, the studies dismissed by Russo prove that such reports are not rare or isolated and, moreover, that these negative reactions are statistically associated with abortion in large samples of women.
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		+	:Russo is essentially saying, "Ignore the smoke. Abortion can't cause fires because we know it is a basic human right of women to have an abortion if they choose. And if a few women complain, they are just whiners who have been guilt-tripped into becoming the foils for the opponents of abortion rights."
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		+	:I just don't buy it. I believe the women who say their abortions caused mental anguish. And I believe the dozens of studies linking abortion to mental health problems are measuring real smoke caused by a real fire.
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	==Peer Reviewed Publications Related to Abortion==		==Peer Reviewed Publications Related to Abortion==

Talk:Nebraska Amendments

Barb — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:06:25 GMT

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	== Definitions 28-326. ==		== Definitions 28-326. ==

-	~~discuss here~~	+	We could use PubMed and PsychInfo instead of Thompson Rueters.
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		+	Notably, Thomson Reuters does produce patient education brochures called CareNotes System in their health care products division. So there is a private research firm that might prepare the disclosure docs.

	== Screening and Disclosure 28-327. ==		== Screening and Disclosure 28-327. ==