Pill Scare - Why not teach people another option?

mcdol3 · January 2011

http://www.canada.com/health/Doctors+fear+pill+scare+arising+from+birth+control+class+action/4090987/story.html

Thought you guys might be interested in reading this.
When I read it, I just shook my head. Heaven forbid people go off the pill *rolls eyes*
Yes those uninformed will probably end up with unwanted pregnancies, why not teach them another way?!!

banana468 · January 2011

That's really easier said than done.

Sure it can work for an educated married woman with a spouse committed to learning it as well.

Unfortunately not everyone is in that kind of relationship or has the intelligence to do something else.

Saying, "Learn a new method" works about as well as teaching abstinence only. If it's going to be difficult then plenty of people just won't go along with it.

mcdol3 · January 2011

I know it's not easy, it just seems so money-hungry to me that the doctors themselves are scared of people going off the pill.
Why would you need to be in a committed relationship with a spouse to use another method? can't someone be single?

SaraAndrew2010 · January 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/cultural-wedding-boards_catholic-weddings_pill-scare-not-teach-people-another-option?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Cultural%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:615Discussion:60a51c4a-a68e-4e8e-9d5f-e75be640d53cPost:5040e3d1-b60c-4f8c-b2c0-c37c0a2536cf">Re: Pill Scare - Why not teach people another option?</a>:
[QUOTE]<strong>I know it's not easy, it just seems so money-hungry to me that the doctors themselves are scared of people going off the pill.</strong> Why would you need to be in a committed relationship with a spouse to use another method? can't someone be single?
Posted by mcdol3[/QUOTE]

I really don't understand your comment. I saw nothing money-hungry in that article at all. Doctors don't get paid extra for writing a perscription. The doctors expressed concern that a pill scare may lead to more unintended pregnancies and abortions. Those are legitimate concerns.

You may not agree with people using artifical birth control, but it does disservice to legitimate discussion and debate to declare that doctors who support HBC are all money grabbers.

mcdol3 · January 2011

I guess I was taking the article more from the drug companies point of view.
I can't say I don't believe in artificial BC since I was on it for 10 years, stopping just last month.

I apologize if I didn't come across right, I'm in a bad mood today and I suppose the article just irked me in that they want people to stay on the pill rather than go off. And those that may want to go off because of the problems this article claims the pill (Yaz/Yasmin) may do to someone, there doesn't seem like an alternative when there is.

banana468 · January 2011

You're right. Single people can use it too. My point was that most people don't practice NFP unless they're in a committed relationship. And yes, there are plenty of other alternatives but that's the only one advocated by the church.

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