Lanfranchi is an agenda-driven quack. She does not teach at a medical school — “clinical assistant professor” is a title that every medical school bestows on hundreds or even thousands of practicing physicians, and just means that if students do a clinical rotation in their practice, it counts — doesn’t mean even a single student ever has.
What study? How many women who took the pill before they were 20? What other characteristics did they have? What about the dozens of large studies that show nothing of the sort? You can find “one study” showing almost anything, but random little studies with wild outlier results are meaningless. I’m sure some leftist quack could find you “one study” that showed Republicans have much lower IQs than Democrats. But when you dig a little, you’ll find the study subjects were something like a dozen poli sci majors at a notoriously left-wing college, so it would hardly be surprising that the handful of Republicans who chose to attend such a college to major in poli sci were on the dim side.
The fact is that there’s a reasonably strong correlation between not having babies at a young age, and higher breast cancer rates. This holds true even for women who never used any kind of contraceptives because they weren’t sexually active. If you’ve got no family history of breast cancer, and a family history of ovarian cancer, taking oral contraceptives reduces your risk of cancer.
Of course the Pill is just fine. It’s just common sense that a massive dose of synthetic estrogen to purposely screw up the reproductive system from doing what it naturally does has only positive side effects! /sarc
One thing makes me absolutely sick about the medical profession, and that is that too many people in it will strongly suggest ALL kinds of lifestyle modification (stop smoking, exercise, change diet) on medical grounds but treat fornication and contraception as if it were some sacrosanct third rail.
Yeah, ovarian cancer whatever. The Pill has always been, is now, and will always be a disgusting example of the medical profession putting the idiocies of the culture over the needs of the patient. Take that to the bank.