{"id":1370396,"date":"2022-03-11T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1370396"},"modified":"2022-03-11T07:37:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:37:25","slug":"instead-of-being-fed-false-assurances-of-safety-women-deserve-to-know-all-the-risks-of-hormonal-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/instead-of-being-fed-false-assurances-of-safety-women-deserve-to-know-all-the-risks-of-hormonal-birth-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Instead Of Being Fed False Assurances Of Safety, Women Deserve To Know All The Risks Of Hormonal Birth Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finstead-of-being-fed-false-assurances-of-safety-women-deserve-to-know-all-the-risks-of-hormonal-birth-control%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1370396&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4210615.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Women who previously swallowed the pill for years without much thought are now questioning hormonal birth control. If the pill may in fact be <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/21\/hormonal-birth-control-is-killing-women-why-wont-the-fda-talk-about-it\/\">harming<\/a> women, a recent study published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2788119\">Journal of the American Medical Association<\/a> (JAMA) is trying to convince doctors and women otherwise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The study in question is an \u201cumbrella review\u201d of 58 meta-analyses on hormonal birth control found in the public-facing, open access version of JAMA, one of the country\u2019s preeminent medical journals. The study concludes that \u201cof 58 meta-analyses of randomized clinical trials and cohort studies describing 156 associations between hormonal contraceptive use and adverse health outcomes among women, no associations with adverse outcomes, including cardiovascular and cancer risk, were supported by high-quality evidence.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sensing something fishy about this conclusion given the well-established link between hormonal birth control and both breast cancer risks and cardiovascular risks (including blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, and the like), we recently had a panel of doctors and experts at <a href=\"https:\/\/naturalwomanhood.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Natural Womanhood<\/a> dig into the study to ascertain how the JAMA authors could arrive at such benign conclusion. Our panel found plenty of glaring errors with the study, but suffice it to say that a significant amount of data manipulation is at play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, the JAMA<em> <\/em>study authors cherry-picked studies with data they liked, and moved the goalposts on data quality, arbitrarily deeming evidence that had previously shown a significant correlation between birth control use and certain adverse outcomes (like breast cancer and cardiovascular risks) to be \u201cpoor,\u201d according to new definitions of quality that they simply made up. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, if the new standards applied by the JAMA<em> <\/em>study authors were to be applied to other drugs, it would be virtually impossible to correlate any risks or side effects with the use of, well, anything. As our panel pointed out, for a powerful drug that is prescribed to shut down a functioning system of the body \u2013 not a therapeutic intended to treat or cure a disease \u2013 the burden of evidence in support of related risks and side effects should arguably be <em>lower, <\/em>not raised to such impossible heights that any data produced is rendered virtually meaningless.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This kind of data massaging is all too familiar to anyone who has dared to question the \u201cexperts\u201d on Covid over the last two years. In fact, journalist Anna Maltby drew the same Covid parallel in a recent pro-birth control piece for Elle, in which she derides questioning the safety of the powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/beauty\/a38954756\/whos-afraid-of-hormones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">synthetic hormones many women put into their bodies<\/a>. Maltby compares women questioning the pill to anti-Covid vaxxers, whom she blames for this \u201cnightmare of a never-ending pandemic fueled in part by people \u2018doing their own research\u2019 and intentionally avoiding a safe, effective, life-saving vaccine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you think hysterical pro-birth control articles in popular women\u2019s magazines and studies in medical journals have no bearing on real life, think again. There has been a concerted push to make birth control available over the counter across the United States, with new states adopting these policies every few months. In fact, it took very little time for <a href=\"https:\/\/degette.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/lawmakers-urge-swift-fda-consideration-of-over-the-counter-birth-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 50 state representatives to send a letter to Dr. Robert Califf<\/a>, after his recent confirmation as the new commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, urging him to \u201cfollow the science\u201d and remove prescription requirements for hormonal birth control pills. <\/p>\n<p>Studies published in preeminent journals like JAMA<em> <\/em>have the potential to be referenced in the crafting of health policies that make it possible for your teenage daughter to get hormonal birth control without your knowledge, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/09\/30\/one-year-after-alexandra-williams-death-by-birth-control-little-has-changed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proved deadly<\/a> for more than one promising <a href=\"https:\/\/naturalwomanhood.org\/remember-erika-langhart-victim-of-the-nuvaring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">young woman<\/a>. Cheerleading articles like Maltby\u2019s give the average woman the impression that when it comes to birth control risks, \u201cthere\u2019s nothing to see here,\u201d lending popular support for the removal of medical safeguards around birth control access and use.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the risks and side effects of birth control (or of any medical intervention, for that matter), women deserve better than having the wool pulled over their eyes. Unfortunately, nearly every form of media, whether academic or popular, serves up the same message: Pipe down, take your pills, and don\u2019t think too hard about what\u2019s in them.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Grace Emily Stark is a freelance writer and editor, with published work in multiple outlets. She is a current Ramsey Institute Fellow, and a former Novak Alumni Fund Journalism fellowship recipient. 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