Awwwww! Thank you, Lion!
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- A number of studies suggest that current use of oral contraceptives (birth control pills) appears to slightly increase the risk (notice: does not CAUSE, but good lying!) of breast cancer, especially among younger women. However, the risk level goes back to normal 10 years or more after discontinuing oral contraceptive use.
- Women who use oral contraceptives have reduced risks of ovarian and endometrial cancer. This protective effect increases with the length of time oral contraceptives are used. (OH MAN! THEY DO POSITIVE THINGS! But I guess you left that out because facts kind of sink the anti-choice ship, don’t they? :( )
- Oral contraceptive use is associated with an increased risk of cervical cancer; however, this increased risk may be because sexually active women have a higher risk of becoming infected with human papillomavirus, which causes virtually all cervical cancers. (This proves that there’s a correlation, not a causation.)
- Women who take oral contraceptives have an increased risk of benign liver tumors, but the relationship between oral contraceptive use and malignant liver tumors is less clear. (Again! Slight correlation doesn’t mean causation! But hey, leave it to fundies to see a beginning and an end and assume all the rest in the middle to mean what they want. That’s like, their trademark.)
BECAUSE FACT-CHECKING YOUR OWN FUCKING SOURCE IS SO HARD!
The only thing even slightly related to breast cancer is a theory of a slightly increased risk, and they’re not even sure why that risk might be there. It’s confusing, for example, that people who were on the pill and who have developed breast cancer suffer less severe cases than people who have never taken contraceptives in their lives.
Absolutely every last goddamn study listed here finishes with “but more study is needed” because the results aren’t clear. See, that’s your problem—you see what you want and then jump to the conclusion that suits you best, rather than waiting to see the actual results. And it appears that the vast majority of increased risks of breast cancer appeared majorly in those who were on triphasic pills—followed closely by a note that this needs more research to determine why.
And you know the cool part about all of this? You know why they’re doing the studies? So that if there IS a link, they can CHANGE the medication. They are double-checking themselves, proving that the care infinitely more about the well-being of a person than you. You, who would rather women have absolutely no access to contraceptives, who would rather force people into pregnancy than help them avoid it—which is clearly the demand.
You can’t be against abortion AND birth control and STILL tell me that you’re not a misogynistic douchefuck. Sorry honey, it’s just not happening.
Where Brittany again points out misinformation by anti-choice zealots.
Canada’s teen birth and abortion rate drops by 36.9 per cent
Better access to contraception, higher quality sex education and shifting social norms have contributed to a 36.9 per cent decline in Canada’s teen birth and abortion rate between 1996 and 2006, according to a report released today by the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada.
America’s emphasis on abstinence-only sex ed “tends to result in a higher percentage of teens becoming pregnant,” as does the country’s lack of universal health care. Poverty is another factor.
Among the four countries compared for 2006, Canada boasted the lowest teen birth and abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 (27.9), followed by Sweden (31.4), England/Wales (60.3), and the United States (61.2).
THIRTY-SEVEN PERCENT DECREASE? Goddamn. How much more proof will people need before they realize how ineffective Abstinence-Only sex education is?
It doesn’t matter how much evidence we have. Zealots will cling to their beliefs.
You know what’s fucked up?
When women can’t talk about their bodies or sexuality in public without creepy fucks thinking it’s some kind of invitation to be creepy fucks.
Like, fucking seriously. Just because a woman is open with their sexuality it doesn’t mean it’s a fucking invitation to every horny creep out there.
FORESKIN IS AMAZING AND YOU SHOULDN’T CUT IT OFF OF ANYONE BUT A CONSENTING ADULT
:(this is one of the sex positive issues that really bothers me (well…let’s be real, they all do). i would never dream of surgically modifying my child’s genitals before they could speak or comprehend what is happening to them. i don’t understand how or why people are so chill with violating people’s basic right to their own body. every argument i’ve heard put forth for nonconsensual removal of a part of a baby’s penis is based on ignorantbs.
i hope one day people will use their brains and leave the penises alone.
MAKE OUT LIKE YOU NEVER SIGNALLED AND DIDN’T SHOULDER CHECK
AND I DON’T REALLY SPEED THAT MUCH
BUT YOU DRIVE LIKE SUCH AN ASSHOLE SO YOU SHOULD TAKE THE BUS
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There are exactly three countries on Earth that do not provide guarantees for paid maternity leave. Papua New Guinea and Swaziland are two of them. Care to guess the third?
Fail.
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