Wed Jul 26, 2023 – 11:13 am EDTWed Jul 26, 2023 – 11:35 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Recent updates to the terms and conditions of reality have seen new alliances formed over the question of defining a woman. As women struggle to assert the fact of their own being, feminists and Christian traditionalists have often found themselves on the same side of the argument.
With the FDA approving “over the counter” birth control pills, another front of unlikely unity may be set to emerge. Twenty years of revealing research is fueling renewed interest in the wider effects of the hormone treatment known as “the Pill.”
Far from being the wonder drug which liberated women, repeated studies suggest that the effects of the contraceptive pill on women is sufficient to prompt some to say it has “robbed” them of their lives.
Life lived as a side effect
A 2015 piece for The Conversation eulogizes the scientist whose research led to the creation of the Pill. The fruit of Carl Djerassi’s work, hormonal contraception was celebrated for putting “Women in Control” with an oral abortifacient which “directly improved the well-being of single women” and “increased the well-being of
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