Posted on 02/19/2014 4:23:59 AM PST by NYer
HOLLYWOOD, February 17, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A forthcoming documentary presenting the health threats of hormonal contraception will be produced by none other than former 1990s trash talk show host Ricki Lake.
Lake will act as executive producer alongside director Abby Epstein in a full-length film based on Holly Grigg-Spall's book Sweetening The Pill: or How We Became Hooked On Hormonal Birth Control.
“In the 50 years since its release, the birth control Pill has become synonymous with women’s liberation and has been thought of as some sort of miracle drug. But now it’s making women sick,” the two said in a statement. “Our goal with this film is to wake women up to the unexposed side effects of these powerful medications and the unforeseen consequences of repressing women’s natural cycles.”
In addition to the oral contraceptive pill, the film is said to deal with Yaz/Yasmin, the NuvaRing, and other forms of artificial contraception.
The duo, who worked together on three previous documentaries and a book on natural childbirth and nursing, plan for the film to be released in 2015.
“Oh whoa, this sounds pretty intense!” celebrity blogger Perez Hilton wrote. “We wonder if the film will scare everyone off the pill!”
The facts have frightened many familiar with them – and harmed or killed those who were not.
Women who take the contraceptive pill are twice as likely to develop cervical cancer and 10-30 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than women who never took the pill. The risk lasts 10 years after the woman goes off the pill.
Although the World Health Organization ranks the estrogen-progestogen pill a Group One carcinogen – its deadliest rating – no less than 10 percent of all women of reproductive age globally are taking it.
A new study links the pill to an elevated risk of glaucoma.
Other forms of contraception profiled in Lake's press release have damaged women, as well.
Pharmaceutical giant Merck has agreed to pay $100 million over complaints that the NuvaRing causes heart attacks, blood clots, and strokes, after 3,800 women took action.
Bayer paid $1.6 billion in a settlement over similar side effects caused by Yaz/Yasmin, which include stroke, partial blindness, blood clots, and death.
“Planned Parenthood, The Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Big Pharma, and others that generate huge amounts of income from contraceptives have intentionally hidden the truth from women for decades,” Rita Diller, national director of American Life League's Stop Planned Parenthood Project, told LifeSiteNews. “The truth about contraception is finally being made known, at the cost of the lives of untold numbers of women and girls who have died or suffered irreparable harm because of the pill.”
Lake retweeted a message from ThePillKills, adding her own approval by writing, “Yes!”:
RT @ThePillKills: @RickiLake @deadline We’ve seen too many deaths from birth control use. Maybe this will raise the flag. Yes! xo — Ricki Lake (@RickiLake) February 13, 2014
The move seems to represent an abrupt about-face for Ricki Lake, who wrote an article for Family Circle magazine last November saying it was “dangerous” that 40 percent of young women who do not want to be pregnant “aren't using contraception consistently.” The article was part of the nationwide “Thanks Birth Control” campaign.
“As recently as three months ago, she was speaking as a 'media consultant' on behalf of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, the same national campaign that maintains the obscene Bedsider website for teens,” Rita Diller told LifeSiteNews.
“As the stories of lives cut short by dangerous drugs that were touted as the key to a long, healthy, successful life emerge, more people like Ricki Lake will be forced to acknowledge the lies they have promulgated,” Diller said. “When women know the truth about contraception, they will reject it.”
FYI, ping!
I hope the film also covers the dangers of hormone replacement therapy.
I hope they address the dangers of Norplant and the abusive way its been imposed.
-— But now its making women sick, -—
Now?
Long overdue. Indiscrimate use of hormonal birth control might be a key to children’s allergies and behavior.
Hmmmmmm, this is very odd. It seems she’s done a complete about face in only a few months, I’d be interested to hear more about that.
Has anyone consulted Sandra Fluke?
As an educator, I’ve often wondered what effect/s the pill has had on the children of these women. I wonder if there might not be a link with the large number of kids with ADD/ADHD.
...And in other news Ellen DeGeneres drowned today.
She was found face down in Ricki Lake.
(rimshot)
CC
How?
I’ve wondered for a while now if the near epidemic proportions of autism and behavior issues isn’t related to the prescription medication young women are taking. 50 years ago our large school district had one small school for kids who were mentally retarded and physically handicapped, but now, every building in every district has special ed classes which teach a high percentage of the kids in each building.
They got Norplant by the FDA by asserting that since “The Pill” had a 35% rate of bad effects on women, that 35% was the new Zero Baseline (Control Group).
And that the ADDITIONAL 35% of bad effects on women should then be acceptable.
(Norplant is typically 3 slow release cylinders implanted under the skin of the forearm)
Then, when Norplant became a condition of receiving Welfare, and women would have bad side effects, the clinics refused to remove the implants.
Hormone replacement therapy, the old high dose oral estrogen-and-progestin replacement therapy given to women well past menopause continuously over the course many years or not started until after menopause posed the most significant danger according to those studies. The risks, while true, were somewhat exaggerated.
Information that has emerged over the last decade shows that, for most women starting treatment near the menopause, the benefits outweigh the risks, not just for relief of hot flashes, night sweats and vaginal dryness, but also for reducing the risks of heart disease and fractures, said Robert Langer, who was the principal investigator at the WHI center at University of California, San Diego, in a statement. He is now at the Jackson Hole Center for Preventative Medicine in Wyoming.
Overall, the Climacteric articles support the so-called window-of-opportunity idea that women who start HRT before age 60 or within ten years of menopause have a lower risk of heart disease and overall mortality, and that HRT is more beneficial than statins or aspirin.
I started menopause at 49 and rather abruptly, i.e. my periods tapered off for a couple of months then suddenly stopped all together. And I was miserable. The hot flashes several times a day and the night sweats that kept me from getting a good nights sleep were bad enough but I also had trouble concentrating, gained weight and felt lethargic, moody and depressed.
I went to my GYN for my annual exam and told him about my symptoms. He recommended HRT. This was right around the time when all the media stories were out touting the dangers of HRT making them sound as if all therapies and women were the same. So obviously I was concerned about taking it. He explained much of what is in the above article and more. He said he would prescribe a low dose patch but only for 6 months after which I should stop for a time and be reevaluated for my symptoms.
And it was wonderful. Within a few days after wearing the patch, I felt more like my old or younger self again. After six months, I discontinued the patch and aside from an occasional hot flash which was not nearly as bad as it was before; my symptoms subsided or went away.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/menopause/in-depth/hormone-therapy/art-20046372
LOL!
And it was wonderful. Within a few days after wearing the patch, I felt more like my old or younger self again. After six months, I discontinued the patch and aside from an occasional hot flash which was not nearly as bad as it was before; my symptoms subsided or went away.
My wife was out on one of those patches as well. However, there was no talk of it being for only 6 months. I'm sure she was on it for longer. This would have been in the late 80's or early 90's. The risks were downplayed by her doctor. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 1996. The funny thing is, the docs who prescribe HRT say it is totally safe; but good luck finding an oncologist who will say that.
Now we are seeing commercials that try to convince men that they need to take testosterone for "low T". This is going to play out the same way for men that HRT did for women. BTW, though she has had two new breast cancer occurrences since 1996, my wife is doing well.
That could also be due to corruption - they get more $$$ for "special needs" students that for "normal" students.
You’re right, special ed does get a lot of money, and that is a motivation to grow it. But as far as autism, the kids in these autistic programs are definitely autistic, no question about it. I never knew one autistic kid growing up. It wasn’t until I took child development in college in the 70’s that I’d even heard of the disorder, and that was in text books. By the time I actually got around to subbing and then teaching (after raising my family and dabbling around in other jobs) in the late 90’s, it seemed like there was an explosion of autism on the scene.
For the Left, political dogma always trumps human life.
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