{"id":2205907,"date":"2024-03-25T17:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T21:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-panics-as-more-and-more-women-choose-to-dump-their-birth-control\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T21:08:13","slug":"the-media-panics-as-more-and-more-women-choose-to-dump-their-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-panics-as-more-and-more-women-choose-to-dump-their-birth-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Media alarmed by increasing number of women opting out of 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\">24<\/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%2Fthe-media-panics-as-more-and-more-women-choose-to-dump-their-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=2205907&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--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Washington Post has been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/media\/2023\/10\/11\/washington-post-buyouts-metro-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hemorrhaging<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> subscribers and web traffic for years. Late last year, the paper <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/10\/business\/media\/washington-post-job-cuts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">conducted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> yet another round of layoffs, impacting hundreds of employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jeff Bezos purchased the paper for $250 million a decade ago, and last year alone, it managed to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/media\/2023\/10\/11\/washington-post-buyouts-metro-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lose<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> roughly $100 million. This is not a profitable venture, and in normal circumstances, businesses that lose this much money don\u2019t stay around very long. But the Washington Post has stuck around. Jeff Bezos has kept it on life support to fulfill a specific mission, which is to harangue and censor independent voices on behalf of Jeff Bezos\u2019 donors in the Democratic Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A couple of days ago, that mission was on full display.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On March 21st, The Washington Post published an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/03\/21\/stopping-birth-control-misinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> entitled, \u201cWomen are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion.\u201d The Daily Beast ran a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/explosion-of-women-ditching-birth-control-amid-misinformation-blitz-docs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">similar story<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, warning ominously of an \u201cexplosion\u201d of women who are ditching birth control amid a \u201cmisinformation blitz.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First of all, it needs to be said that any time the media collectively decides to label something \u201cmisinformation,\u201d they really mean \u201cinformation that we find personally or politically inconvenient.\u201d They\u2019re not interested in proving you wrong, they\u2019re interested in shutting you up. And that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the Washington Post piece says: \u201cBrett Cooper, a media commentator for the conservative Daily Wire, argued in a viral TikTok clip that birth control can impact fertility, cause women to gain weight and even alter whom they are attracted to. It racked up over 219,000 \u2018likes\u2019 before TikTok removed it following The Post\u2019s inquiry.\u201d The piece goes on to describe other similar videos that the Post also wants to be deleted from the internet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, this one, from Ben Shapiro\u2019s show a year ago:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s hard to imagine a more anodyne clip than that. This is not a woman making up crazy, unhinged conspiracy theories about birth control. She\u2019s not expressing some dangerous, unscientific opinion. She doesn\u2019t even appear to be political. She\u2019s just articulating a very reasonable, increasingly common concern, which is that taking unnatural hormones might have some unexpected and unwanted effects on the human body. Even if you don\u2019t know anything about the scientific data on this point, that\u2019s not a crazy thing to believe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But as that clip goes on, they do talk about some of the research on this point. None of this is quack science. It\u2019s widely accepted in medical literature.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1332-the-media-panics-as-more-and-more-women-choose-to-dump-their-birth-control-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, a recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6193788\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> out of Denmark, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that, \u201chormonal contraception use doubles the risk of suicide attempt, and triples the risk of suicide.\u201d The study specifically found that \u201cthe association between hormonal contraception and primary outcomes peaked at 2 months, but continued even after the cessation of hormonal contraception for some years.\u201d The researchers also reported that hormonal contraceptives were connected with a 70% increase in rates of depression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before I get into the specifics of what other studies have found, it\u2019s important to pause here and take another look at how the Washington Post is framing this story. Here\u2019s the first paragraph: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Search for \u2018birth control\u2019 on TikTok or Instagram and a cascade of misleading videos vilifying hormonal contraception appear: Young women blaming their weight gain on the pill. Right-wing commentators claiming that some birth control can lead to infertility. Testimonials complaining of depression and anxiety. \u2026 Physicians say they\u2019re seeing an explosion of birth-control misinformation online targeting a vulnerable demographic.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The implication of what the Post wrote is that it\u2019s \u201cmisinformation\u201d to say that birth control is related to \u201cdepression and anxiety.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. At no point in the Washington Post\u2019s article did they debunk the study from Denmark. They don\u2019t even mention it. Instead, they simply state, as a matter of fact, that you\u2019re crazy if you link birth control to weight gain, infertility, or depression. They claim the only significant side effects of birth control medication are blood clots. But they\u2019re wrong, on all counts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the main reasons they\u2019re wrong is that hormonal birth control inhibits the body\u2019s natural reaction to stress. As a UCLA Health study put it late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/news\/study-shows-how-birth-control-pills-affect-womens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <em>Researchers at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences\u2019 Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research found contraceptive users and non-users processed stress differently at the molecular level, with contraceptive users also reporting a more negative psychological response to stress compared to non-users.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is it possible that disrupting the body\u2019s natural stress response might lead to weight gain, given that weight gain is one of the most common symptoms of stress? The Washington Post thinks you\u2019re a science denier if you even suggest that. They\u2019ll have you pulled off TikTok if you even mention the possibility. And that\u2019s weird, because less than a year ago, NBC News ran this report, in which their medical experts explain that weight gain and hair loss are among the symptoms of hormonal birth control. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I guess we\u2019re expected to believe that at some point between May and this week, the science changed. But actually, it didn\u2019t. Going back to the UCLA study, researchers confirmed existing research which found that: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hormonal contraceptive pills may increase women\u2019s risk for chronically elevated inflammation, which carries the long-term risk of developing illnesses such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and autoimmune disorders, as well as potential mood disorders, including depression.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The lead author at UCLA added: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cortisol gets a bad rap, but increases in cortisol in response to stress help the body manage stressful situations. \u2026 If women on the pill are having these increases in cortisol but their mood is getting worse, it could mean that the pill is preventing their bodies and minds from returning to normal following stress.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The truth is that hormonal birth control does come with all kinds of risks and side effects. All drugs do. Drugs that suppress the normal, healthy functions of the body are always especially risky. And that includes potential impacts on fertility, as much as the Washington Post doesn\u2019t want to admit it. Right now, if you go to the Planned Parenthood <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/learn\/birth-control\/birth-control-shot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, you\u2019ll find that they recommend a method of hormonal birth control known as \u201cthe Depo shot.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The depo shot (AKA Depo-Provera) is an injection you get once every 3 months. It\u2019s a safe, convenient, and private birth control method that works really well if you always get it on time.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What Planned Parenthood doesn\u2019t mention on their website is that the \u201cdepo shot\u201d has clear and proven impacts on fertility. This is from the WebMD website, which on most days, the Washington Post agrees is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/baby\/get-pregnant-after-birth-control\">reliable source<\/a>:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Injectable birth control (Depo-Provera): Unlike other forms of hormonal birth control, it may be harder to get pregnant after you stop getting these shots. It may take 10 months or more before you ovulate again. For some women, it will take up to 18 months for periods to start again.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So this is a method of hormonal birth control that does impact fertility after you stop taking it. In fact, it can make women infertile for a very long time. This isn\u2019t some conspiracy theory \u2014 and neither is the idea that hormonal birth control can contribute to weight gain, depression and suicide. The same sources that the Left tells us to trust at every opportunity \u2014 established medical researchers \u2014 are very clear on this. But the \u201ctrust the science\u201d crowd has suddenly become very distrusting of science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that\u2019s not the only platitude they\u2019re abandoning in order to censor anyone who speaks critically about birth control. Remember \u201cmy body, my choice?\u201d If these people really believed in the \u201cmy body my choice\u201d mantra, they would celebrate, or at least accept, that an increasing number of young women are choosing to forgo birth control. But birth control is central to their cultural agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With fewer women on the pill, more women will become mothers, and some of them will drop out of the workforce and discover fulfillment and happiness as wives and homemakers. This is the real crisis that the Washington Post and the other Left wing rags are worried about. The last thing that the elites want to see is a movement of women fully embracing their own womanhood, and men fully embracing their manhood. A move back towards the family, away from materialism and self-preoccupation and towards marriage and parenthood. These people have been waging a war on the family for decades, and the birth control pill is their nuclear bomb. The family is the greatest threat to them. And a society full of families \u2014 of intact, happy families, with attentive mothers and strong fathers \u2014 that is a society that has rendered these people powerless. That is their fear. And they fear it like they fear nothing else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And politically, of course we know that unhappy career middle managers at Citibank are one of the core constituencies of the Democratic Party. If they rebel, Democrats will have real trouble winning another election. And they\u2019re willing to do anything \u2014 including lying to women about the serious and even fatal drug side effects of birth control, and so many other drugs \u2014 to prevent that from happening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has seen a continuous decline in subscribers and web traffic, leading to recent layoffs affecting numerous employees. Jeff Bezos acquired the paper for $250 million ten years ago, but it has been losing around $100 million annually. 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