Planned Parenthood Pushing Birth Control Implants & Shots Despite the Risks

This video is a Planned Parenthood video promotion piece for birth control implants.

The video below is a very casual “review” of the implant from a teenaged mom who is using it. Be advised that she speaks frankly about personal body issues.

None of the side effects she describes are medically necessary, since the implant itself is not medically necessary. Side effects of Implanon include irregular periods, acne, dizziness, facial hair growth, viral infections, mood swings, depression, anxiety and the side effects associated with birth control pills.

The Implanon implant costs between $400 and $800 USD.

None of this is medically necessary. These are risks women have been taught to undergo in order to shut down their reproductive systems.

In this video, Planned Parenthood champions the long-lasting birth control shot, Depo Provera.

And here we have the FDA warning of bone loss resulting from taking Depo Provera. The warning specifically mentions that this may be especially dangerous for adolescent girls who are going through an important increase of bone mass which will not be repeated later in life. What age group is most likely to take Depo Provera????

Again, these are unnecessary risks being pushed on young women by a misogynistic medical profession and population control industry who clearly do not care for them or their health.

The actual FDA warning says:

WARNING: LOSS OF BONE MINERAL DENSITY
Women who use Depo-Provera Contraceptive Injection may lose significant bone mineral density. Bone loss is greater with increasing duration of use and may not be completely reversible.

It is unknown if use of Depo-Provera Contraceptive Injection during adolescence or early adulthood, a critical period of bone accretion, will reduce peak bone mass and increase the risk for osteoporotic fracture in later life.

Depo-Provera Contraceptive Injection should not be used as a long-term birth control method (i.e., longer than 2 years) unless other birth control methods are considered inadequate. (See Warnings and Precautions (5.1)).

One of the most disturbing parts of all this is the willingness of the medical profession to collude in promoting dangerous medications to well people. I am not taking a position either for or against using contraceptives to limit family size. But I do take a strong position against using dangerous medications to treat well people for social convenience. I don’t see how that can be considered good medical practice.

In truth, there are birth control methods available that do not endanger the woman’s health. Most of them also do not require a prescription or expensive trips to a doctor or clinic such as Planned Parenthood.

I will ask again as I did in the first post I wrote on this topic today, can you imagine our medical establishment marketing things like this to men? From everything I’ve seen one of the reasons these dangerous methods of birth control are being pushed on women is for the convenience of men, to make women sexually available at all times with no requirement for male responsibility.

Assuming that the men in question may actually love some of the women in their lives, it might behove them to speak out against these dangerous methods themselves. Do they really want their wives and daughters dosing themselves with powerful hormones and implanting devices in themselves than can do them harm?

This is just another expression of the bad old double standard that the women’s movement fought so hard against in the past. It is a tragedy that they now use the advertising slogan “reproductive health” to support it in this newer and even more dangerous form.