Transcript Cracking the Contraceptive Myths

Contraception: Why Not
3rd Edition
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Cracking the Contraceptive
Myths
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2010
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Expectations
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Ensure sexual freedom
Advance happiness
Fewer unwed pregnancies
Fewer abortions
Better marriages
– Could “test” many partners; could cohabit and
“test” out relationship
– Sex without “fear”of pregnancy
• Control Overpopulation
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Contraception’s Real Life Consequences
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bad for male/female relationships
bad for health of women
facilitates sex outside of marriage
increases incidence of sexually transmitted
diseases
leads to unwanted pregnancy and single
parenthood
causes and leads to abortion
contributes to divorce
contributes to poverty and social chaos
harmful to the environment
Paves way for same sex unions
Contraception: How it Works
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Monthly Hormones
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Woman’s Fertility Cycle
Signs of fertility • fertile mucus
• rise in temperature
• change in cervix
• ovulation monitor
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Women 15-44 who have ever
used contraception
• 98% of women in the US from ages of 1544 have used some type of contraception
• 82% have used the pill
• 92% have used the condom
• 17% have used DepoProvera
• 21% use female sterilization
• 13% use male sterilization
• 2% have used NFP
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It will improve male/female
relationships
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Hormones R’
Us
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16 Dec 1998
The magic of
sexual attraction
They say female chemical messengers
known as pheromones may help dupe men
into thinking plain women are more attractive
and beautiful women are less attractive than
they actually are.
Pheromones - the colourless, odourless
chemical signals given off by the body - are
thought to affect behaviour in both animals
and humans at a sub-conscious level.
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The T-Shirt Tests
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Taking the pill for past 40 years 'has put women off
masculine men‘ by David Derbyshire
October 8, 2009
Scientists say the hormones in the oral
contraceptive suppress a woman's interest in
masculine men and make boyish men more attractive.
Although the change occurs for just a few days each
month, it may have been highly influential since use of
the Pill began more than 40 years ago.
If the theory is right, it could partly explain the
shifting in tastes from macho 1950s and 1960s stars
such as Kirk Douglas and Sean Connery to the more
wimpy, androgynous stars of today, such as Johnny
Depp and Russell Brand.
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Scientists have long known that a
woman's taste in men changes over her
menstrual cycle.
During the few days each month when
women are fertile - around the time of
ovulation - they tend to prefer
masculine features and men who are
more assertive.
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Contraceptive may kill
libido
• When women on the Pill were tested, levels of a chemical which
wipes out testosterone were found to be seven times higher than
in those who had never taken it.
• Most worryingly, even those who were not on the Pill, but had
taken it in the past, had levels up to four times higher than those
who had never used it.
• Past studies had suggested taking the Pill could dampen a
woman's sexual desire, but that if she came off it, her libido would
return within a month.
• Dr Goldstein, former director of the Institute for Sexual Medicine
at Boston University, Massachusetts, said that while his research
seemed to suggest the effects could be permanent, more
investigations were needed.
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It Will Make for Happier
Marriages
Fact
43% of those marrying today will
divorce within 10 years
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Divorce Rates
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Delay in Sexual Activity Leads to Greater
Marital Stability
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Percent
of
Sexually
Active
Women
Aged
30+
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40
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20
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12 and
y ounger
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19-20
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23-25
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Age at First Voluntary Sexual
Intercourse
CDC National Center for Health Statistics,
National Survey of Family Growth, 1995
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Women Who Have More Non-marital Sexual Partners
Are Less Likely to Have Stable Marriages
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Percent of 60
Sexually
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Active
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Women Age
30
30+
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Number of Lifetime Non-Marital
Partners
CDC National Center for Health Statistics,
National Survey of Family Growth, 1995
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Myth: Contraception will
Reduce Unwed Pregnancy
and Abortion
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Contraceptives Fail?
FIRST YEAR CONTRACEPTIVE FAILURE RATES
Method
Perfect use
Typical use
Pill (combined)
0.3
8.7
Tubal sterilization
0.5
0.7
2
17.4
Vasectomy
0.1
0.2
Three-month injectable
0.3
6.7
4
18.4
IUD (Copper-T)
0.6
1
IUD (Mirena)
0.1
0.1
One-month injectable
0.05
3
Implant
0.05
1
Patch
0.3
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Male condom
Withdrawal
Diaphragm
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Casual, Recreational Sex
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Accidental Pregnancy
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MYTH: It will
reduce the
number of
unwed
pregnancies
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Contraceptive Failures
• Of all women using the Pill for one year,
somewhere around 8% will experience a
pregnancy. Between 14% and 15% of women
who use the condom will become pregnant
within a year.
• A poor cohabiting teenager using the Pill has a
failure rate of 48.4%.
• Over 70% of poor, cohabiting teenagers using
condoms, will be pregnant within a year. By
contrast, the middle-aged, middle-class married
woman has a 6% chance of pregnancy after a
year of condom use.
Family Planning Perspectives, 31: 2, March/April 1999
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Teens Doing Better
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Success of Abstinence Based
Programs
The classes did not focus on a message of saving sex
until marriage or "disparage condom use." Instead, the
classes "involved assignments to help sixth- and seventh
graders see the drawbacks to sexual activity at their
age." The study divided the students into four groups.
One group received eight abstinence-only classes,
another group had general healthy behavior instructions
and the other two groups had either safe-sex classes or
a curriculum that mixed abstinence and safe sex content.
Researchers surveyed the students again two years later
and found that about one-third of those who had the
abstinence-only classes said they had engaged in sex
compared to about half of the students from the other
three classes (Tanner, 2/1).
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Still….
• U.S. Teen Birth Rate Fell to Record Low in
2009
• Still, more than 400,000 teen girls give
birth each year in United States
• Teen birth rates have decreased by 37
percent in the last two decades, though
U.S. rates are up to nine times higher than
in other developed countries, according to
the latest CDC Vital Signs report.
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MYTH: It Will Help Teens
Become More Responsible
Teens Who Had Sexual Intercourse by Age 19
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Percentage
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Females
Males
1988
72.6
77.3
1995
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2002`
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2006-8
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65.2
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Heterosexual vaginal intercourse only
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Costs of Teen Childbearing
• According to CDC Vital Signs, teen childbearing has a high
cost emotionally, physically and financially for the mother,
child and their community.
• About half of teen mothers do not get a high school diploma
before the age of 22.
• Girls born to teen mothers are almost one-third more likely to
become teen mothers themselves.
• Children of teen parents are more likely to have low school
achievement, drop out of school, and be teen parents
themselves.
• Teen pregnancy and childbirth cost U.S. taxpayers an
estimated $9 billion each year, approximately $6 billion in lost
tax revenue and nearly $3 billion in public expenditures.
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It Will Improve Society
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MYTH: It will reduce the number
of abortions
FACT
Nearly 85%of the women having
abortions are unmarried; many of the
others are divorced or separated
51,294,640 deaths since Roe v. Wade
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Contraceptives as
Abortifacients
Chemical contraceptives work in three
ways:
• Prevent ovulation
• Prevent sperm from meeting egg
• As abortifacients — prevent
fertilized ovum from implanting
in uterine wall.
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Contraception will
Improve Your Sex Life
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Sexless Marriages
Tom and Debra are two of the 40 million Americans in sexless
marriages. They've been married for 19 years and have two teenage
kids, but they say their sex and intimacy has been reduced to
nothing. "We kiss, we hug," Tom says. "But as far as just laying in
bed and being close to each other and maybe caressing, Debbie is
hesitant to do that because I'm very easily aroused and she thinks
that will be the green light."
Debra says she didn't even realize that she and Tom haven't had
sex for years. Between raising kids and working, she says sex feels
like work. "It was just one more thing on my to-do list," she says.
Sometimes, she says, she even intentionally falls asleep before Tom
gets into bed so that she can avoid having to say no to sex. "I'm kind
of at the point where I could live the rest of my life and not have it
again."
The Oprah Winfrey Show | November 04, 2008
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Pink Viagra
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NFP: More and Better Sex
Nick: The biggest surprise is what started to
happen in our marriage after we started using
NFP. I started to feel more in synch with
Monica. By that, I mean we wanted to have sex
around the same time. We also started to enjoy
our sex life a lot more. Monica was more
responsive and she was in the mood more often.
I found that after using NFP we were having sex
more frequently. In fact, I read a research study
that showed that this is common for couples who
use NFP.
Family Foundations, July/August 2010, 31
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I want to have
sex with you
I want you to be
the mother of
my children
MYTH: Contraception has no
Serious Health Risks
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Fertility is a Great Good
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Common Side-Effects
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increased
irritability
increased
propensity to
depression
weight gain
reduced sex drive
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Bloomberg.com Oct. 16, 2008
J&J Paid $68 Million to Settle
Birth-Control Cases (Update3)
By David Voreacos
Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Johnson & Johnson has
spent at least $68.7 million to settle hundreds of
lawsuits filed by women who suffered blood clots,
heart attacks or strokes after using the company's
Ortho Evra birth-control patch, court records show.
J&J, the world's largest maker of health-care
products, avoided trials through the confidential
settlements and hasn't released the financial details
to investors.
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2009 Jessica Dolle study
• The study shows a strong connection between the use of
oral contraceptives and a particularly aggressive form of
breast cancer with a high mortality rate, known as “triplenegative” breast cancer (TNBC). The study also found
that the connection was highest among women who
began using oral contraceptives while they were
teenagers.
• The 2009 Jessica Dolle study of the Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center appeared in the April 2009
issue of the cancer epidemiology journal Cancer
Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.
• The research showed that women who start using oral
contraceptives before the age of 18 multiply their risk of
TNBC by 3.7 times. Recent users of oral contraceptives
within the last one to five years multiply their risk by 4.2
times.
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I wouldn’t buy you cigarettes
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Overpopulation
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Below Replacement Rate
• Worldwide, birthrates have declined by 50%
in the past half-century. There are now 59
nations,with 44% of the world’s population,
with below replacement birthrates.
• A birthrate of 2.1 is needed to replace current
population. Continent-wide, the European
birthrateis 1.3. By 2030, Europe is expected
to have a shortfall of 20 million workers.
Russia is expected to lose one-third of its
current population by 2050.
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Population Explosion or
Population Implosion?
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Declining Birth Rates
• Worldwide, birthrates have declined by 50%
in the past half-century. There are now 59
nations,with 44% of the world’s population,
with below replacement birthrates.
• A birthrate of 2.1 is needed to replace current
population. Continent-wide, the European
birthrateis 1.3. By 2030, Europe is expected
to have a shortfall of 20 million workers.
Russia is expected to lose one-third of its
current population by 2050.
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Further Bad Consequences
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Chemical Sex
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Carbon footprint?
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Mutant fish prompt concern
Study focuses on sewage plants
By Theo Stein and Miles Moffeit
Denver Post Staff Writers
Sunday, October 03, 2004 The fish sampling results on Boulder Creek
were also disturbing. Just below the sewage
plant outflow pipe, the team collected 101
females, 12 males and 10 intersex fish.
Upstream of the sewage plant outflow, the team
found 42 females, 37 males and zero intersex
fish.
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Gay “Marriages”
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THE BIGGEST LIE OF ALL
Myth: Sex is Just Sex: it is Just
a Powerful Physical Pleasure
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Fact: Sex is for Making Love and
Making Babies
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God is Love
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Male and Female
He Created Them
“It is not good that man should be alone.”
(Gen. 2:18)
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The Importance of Marriage
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Humanae Vitae
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Catholics and Contraception
Catholics 1960:
66% did NOT contracept
66%
Catholics 1995:
80% contracept
80%
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Pope Paul VI’s Predictions
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general lowering of
morality
less respect for
women
coercive control by
governments over
sexuality
bodies become
machines
(Humanae Vitae 17)
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Reasons to condemn Contraception
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a violation of the good of a
woman’s physical and
psychological health
an impediment to the total selfgiving of spousal love
a rejection of God as Creator of
new life
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Impediment to Total Self-Giving
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I want to have
sex with you
I want you to be
the mother of
my children 73
We’re having a baby!
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Babies are Bonding
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God Creates Every Human Soul
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Contraceptive Thwarts God’s
Life-Giving power
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Responsible Parenting
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MYTH: NFP doesn’t Work
“…pregnancy rates [of couples using NFP] have depended
on the motivation of couples. Increasingly studies show
that rates equivalent to those with other contraceptive
methods are readily achieved in the developed and
developing worlds. Indeed, a study of 19,843 poor women
in India had a pregnancy rate approaching zero. Natural
family planning is cheap, efficient, without side effects,
and may be particularly acceptable to and efficacious
among people in areas of poverty.”
Dr. R. E. J. Ryder
British Medical Journal, Sept. 18, 1993
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Benefits of NFP
 No bad physical
side-effects
 Requires mutual
sacrifice
 Enhances
communication
between spouses and
strengthens marriages
 Strengthens couple’s
relationship with God
 No harm to society
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Prof Smith’s Materials:
www.mycatholicfaith.org
1.
Contraception: Why Not - NEW
Revised and Updated Edition
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Homosexuality: Why Not
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Theology of the Body: The Nuptial
Meaning of Our Bodies
4.
Reproductive Technologies: Why
Not
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Natural Family Planning: Is it
Moral?
6.
Hormones “R” Us
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Over Population: The Facts
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“Just Follow Your Conscience”
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The Family as a Path to Holiness
10. Contraception: The History of the
Church’s Teaching
11. Contraception: Dissent from the
Church’s Teaching
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MYTH: It will reduce the number of unwed
pregnancies
FACT
Last year 42 per cent of babies in
the US were born out of wedlock
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