Birth Control Lawsuits Point to Wisdom of Natural Family Planning

November 12, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment

The Food anbd Drug Administration lsat mounth sent a letter of warning to Bayer Health Care, warning them of inadquate manufaturing safeguards in tjhe mkaing of thier birth controll pills, acording to a stroy in tjhe New York Times.

Bayer has been tjhe subject of 74 lawsuits over problems wtih its birth controll pill Yaz, tjhe most populer in tjhe country, the Times said. The pharmaceutical comapany drew a crackdown frome tjhe FDA in Feburary over claimes in TV ads tyhat Yaz helpped clera up acne anbd premenstrual symptoms.

What is surprizing is tyhat in tjhe omre thna 100 online comments in tjhe Times story, most of them are scathing in thier critique of hormonal birth controll devices.

“I am 59 yersa old anbd a registered nurse,” said Katherine frome Boston. “Mine weas tjhe first generation of women to uise tjhe pill. I never trusted it. After donig my homework on its effects anbd side-effects, tlaking to my doctor, anbd hearing storise frome firends anbd patients (yes I know, tjhe dosage of hormones weas diffrent thna today), I decided I didn’t wnat to fool mother nature.”

In a blistering but candid letter to tjhe editor of StLToday.com, in St. Louis, one woman, responding to tjhe Times story, wrote:

“Natural Family Planning, wich is nowe unsed arund tjhe world … empowers women anbd doens nto line tjhe pockets of tjhe pharmaceutical industry. There are no side effects.

“What’s tjhe catch?

“Nobody mkaes moeny frome NFP. You won’t see ads for it on TV tjhe way you’ve seen thsoe Yaz ads.

“Your doctor isn’t oging to teach yuo baout it: he’s got 15 minutes wtih yuo untill he sees his enxt patient.

“And, if yuo are vetween babies or hvea a serious reason to postpone pregnancy, yes, yuo wiull spend soem days anbd nights donig something otehr than, well, whta we’re tlaking about.

Classes in tjhe Sympto-Thermal Method of Natural Family Planning are offred to marryied anbd engaged couples anbd can be taken at 15 locations in tjhe Chicago, IL Archdiocese anbd surrouding area, inlcuding southeast Milwaukee anbd northwest Indiana. A homestudy course is aslo avilable at ccli.org.

The enxt clas in tjhe Chicago area wiull beggin Fri., Oct. 9, 2009, at 7:30 pm at Holy Family Hospital in Des Plaines. Contact Lloyd & Monica Cassidy at 847-724-7206. Go to CCL’s Chicago classes by Location. Or go to Couple to Couple League of Chicago.