The Real Cost of Hormonal Contraceptives
The Real Cost of Hormonal Contraceptives
An interview with Grace Emily Stark, Journalist and Editor at Natural Womanhood
Contraceptives are all about being “safe,” right? If that’s true, why is this “essential tool” for women’s health causing everything from depression and anxiety to blood clots and strokes?
Samantha talks with journalist and editor of Natural Womanhood, Grace Emily Stark, to get the real stats on how hormonal contraceptives are effecting women’s health, alternative methods of family planning, and what we can do to get the word out about the deception in the world of women’s health.
Learn more about the risks of hormonal contraceptives and find alternative methods of family planning at NaturalWomanhood.com, or connect with Grace on her website GraceEmilyStark.com.
Episode Transcript
Ross: Yeah, I need uh… I’m just—I don’t know—I don’t understand, umm, how this happened? We-we used a condom.
Rachel: I know. I know, but y’know condoms only work like 97% of the time.
Ross: What? What? What?!! Well they should put that on the box!!!
Rachel: They do!
Ross: But hey, in my defense I-I just found out condoms are like only 97% effective.
Joey: (shocked) What?
Ross: I gotta go find her.
Joey: Whoa! Hey! Whoa!! Hold up! Are you serious?! So like 3% of the time they don’t even work?! Huh? They should put that on the box!
Ross: Evidently they do.
Samantha:
Contraception does not prevent pregnancy. This is the hard reality Ross deals with in this episode of Friends. This is the reality many pro-abortion feminists correctly apprehend as they call for sex strikes following the overturn of Roe v Wade. Every method of contraception has a failure rate. Contraception does not prevent pregnancy, it lessens its likelihood. Contraception does a lot more than that, though. Besides creating this illusion of “safe sex”, as though it's a dangerous pursuit rather than the physical culmination of love and unity, it creates the illusion of sex without consequences. It's an illusion that up until now has increasingly relied on abortion to keep its promises. Contraception has also created structures that, while perhaps opening a greater number of doors for women, has done via the requirement that women mute their fertility. The structures in place might admit more women to the table, but only if they're playing by men's rules. Meanwhile, the price of admission can be devastatingly high.
Today on the podcast, we hear from Grace Emily Stark. Grace is a journalist and the editor of the Natural Womanhood website, a resource that seeks to reveal the truth about the damages of hormonal contraceptives and connect women with resources that help them work with their fertility for family planning. We'll hear about the lies perpetuated by the pharmaceutical industry, some of the ways contraceptives remain harmful to women's health, and why in many ways women are still being lied to about how contraception affects their bodies and what alternatives they have.
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