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MANILA, Sept. 1, 2012—Not only are some contraception providers giving out incomplete information to unsuspecting women. These advocates of the reproductive health (RH) bill, while riding on a “women’s right to know” posture, have been depriving these women of accurate medical information about contraceptives by virtually muzzling at least one source, according to a registered nurse.
Seeing that quite a number of women posting on a contraception provider’s Facebook page were hungry for information about birth control drugs and devices, Anna Cosio, RN dutifully replied to their queries.
“Many were inquiring about pills, injectables and IUDs. When I first went [to the page], the administrator had not yet responded to their queries so I replied to some of them, informing them of the mechanism of action of hormonal contraceptives and their side effects based on many studies,” the nurse said.
Cosio added that some of the women replied and expressed interest in natural family planning (NFP); prior to that they said they were unaware of the harmful side effects of hormonal contraceptives.
It looks like the exchange of information on the site was a no-no because Cosio discovered, upon returning hours later, that her comments had been deleted – and replaced by the page administrator’s comments with assurances that pills were totally safe.
The nurse was unable to provide additional medical data after that.
“I was supposed to comment again when I noticed that I was already disabled by the page to do so.”
Cosio, who had worked as a nurse instructor and been invited as a resource speaker to symposiums to talk about fertility and contraception, lamented that so many of the girls she had encountered on the online page were given wrong information – “which could be detrimental to their health. I understood it was [business as usual for the company], so what could I expect?”
Scientific data have established that side effects of OCP use include headaches, dizziness, nausea, with increased risk of venous thromboembolism and cardiovascular disease. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) — a World Health Organzation (WHO) body — has classified the pill as a Group 1 carcinogen, putting it on the same level as cigarettes and asbestos.
Besides being linked to over a dozen deaths in the US and Europe, injectable hormonal contraceptives have recently been found to double the risk of breast cancer in women by a study led by epidemiologist Christopher I. Li, M.D., Ph.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
The RH bill, for which the Department of Health (DOH) is proposing P13.7 billion a year for its implementation, includes taxpayer-funded purchase and distribution of the full range of contraceptives, as part of what bill proponents call respecting the “reproductive rights” of people starting from 5th graders.
The Catholic hierarchy as well as faith-based organizations, family and life advocates, and child development experts firmly oppose the measure due to provisions that indicate a lack of respect for the dignity of persons, of the family, and which will require an enormous budget better off spent on education, jobs generation and infrastructure. (CBCP for Life)
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delete the provision that mandate the national and local government, and government and private hospitals and clinic to provide free contraceptives, delete the idea of more child means problems to solve, and delete the sex education for the children whose mind are premature yet for sex. And I will support that so called revised reproductive health bill. Thank you our bishops for protecting the good values and attitudes, more power! and GOD always protect you against devil ideas.
philip
September 3, 2012 at 12:06 pm
we are not against in sex education PERO ibang usapan na yang grade 5 tuturuan ng sex education kasi very critical po ang age nang mga yan kung ano-ano ang mga input nyo sa kanila they considers it for the good, anong gagawin nyo? tuturuan nyo sila how to use contraceptiveS safely to avoid pregnancy? NO WAY!. we are not against contraceptives, bakit? kung mag.popromote kami ng natural method automatic na ba na against kami sa contraceptives na yan. at some point may advantage din ang artificial contraceptives BUT the ideal to use still natural contraceptives, 100 percent free, accessible, ZERO side effect and absolutely safe. we are not against to have a 2 children in a family, and we are absolutely against to have a children that are so many that makes the parent unable to raise them properly, BUT we are also against to have a law that restrict the number of people because they considers them as a pests, because I believed the HUMAN IS A RESOURCES! And GOD give to the human the authority to his CREATION where HE makes human in HIS image.
philip
September 3, 2012 at 12:27 pm