{"id":3148,"date":"2013-12-30T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2014-12-27T14:08:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T21:08:38","slug":"the-war-on-girls-ob-gyns-ignore-health-risks-to-push-iuds-hormonal-implants-on-teen-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2013\/12\/the-war-on-girls-ob-gyns-ignore-health-risks-to-push-iuds-hormonal-implants-on-teen-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Favs: The War on Girls: Ob-Gyns Ignore Health Risks to Push IUDS, Hormonal Implants on Teen Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>


\n<\/a>Last week in The War on Girls: NYC Schools Pushing Plan B on Young Girls<\/a>\u00a0I wrote about NYC\u2019s outrageous policy of pushing the morning after pill on teen-aged girls through the schools.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s story is from a September 26 CNS article detailing an even more outrageous update to the guidelines of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to make dangerous IUDs and hormonal implants the \u201cfirst-line contraceptive options\u201d for teen-aged girls, which should be \u201cdiscussed at each doctor\u2019s visit.\u201d The updated guidelines recommend that doctors suggest these \u201clonger term alternatives\u201d that \u201ccan be left inserted inside a woman\u2019s body and left in place for several years.\u201d<\/p>\n

I am seriously beginning to question if the health and well-being of girls is of any concern to the population control people. Also, just who is in charge of our various medical associations? It appears that social agendas take precedent over patient care with these groups, at least when the patient in question is a girl.<\/p>\n

According to Dr Bill Toffler, professor of family medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, the devices this new update recommends in the Ob-Gyn guidelines are<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 typically expensive, costing hundreds of dollars, although under the Affordable Care Act, minors will have access to IUDs and other contraceptives at no cost, and in some states will be able to receive them without parental consent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe devices also release powerful hormones within the body and can lead to a significant risk of infection, especially during the early stages,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEssentially, you\u2019re putting a foreign body into a normally sterile cavity,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition, one in every 1000 women who use an IUD will have their uterus perforated, potentially putting their future fertility at risk,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Toffler warned that the promoters of the new guidelines \u201chave thrown these concerns under the bus\u201d in their zeal to reduce teenage pregnancy rates.<\/p>\n

However, their attempts to do so may actually contribute to teenagers having \u201cless inhibition\u201d about sex and engaging in increasing levels of risky behavior, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople may be falsely reassured,\u201d he explained, noting that with the average teenage relationship lasting only three months, many young people are already involved in numerous \u201cfleeting\u201d sexual relationships.<\/p>\n

In addition, Toffler said, the promotions of IUDs are misleading, and women are not properly informed about how they function.<\/p>\n

He explained that it is an undisputed fact that \u201cone of the ways they work is to interfere with implantation,\u201d thus ending the life of an already-created human embryo.<\/p>\n

Some women who think they are simply using a preventive form of contraception may not realize that the device is also an abortion-inducing agent, he observed.<\/p>\n

Toffler also said that he has had personal experience with women who became pregnant while using IUDs, posing a risk in removing the device. Such situations are also associated with higher proportions of ectopic pregnancies, which occur outside the womb and can be life-threatening for the mother. (Read more here<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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