The latest in the health care debate, an outgrowth of Obamacare, truly does not take women’s health into consideration.
The logic of the left continues to evade me. They praise the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) for its efforts in cleaning up the environment. They sing the glory of the Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) for keeping dangerous products off the market. Yet, they keep advancing the “right of women to have access to free contraception” with this latest mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services.
If this were truly a matter of health care and maintaining good health, the CPA would speak out against it because of the side effects, some of which are life threatening. Not only would they ban insurance companies from covering such a dangerous product, but they’d insist upon its removal from the market.
Granted, hormonal contraceptives are 99 percent effective in preventing pregnancy, which by the way is not a disease. However, the side effects alone should encourage any thinking, intelligent woman to steer clear of those little pill that offer every woman taking them a whole range of side effects. Some of the less serious side effects that may prove inconvenient or annoying include weight gain, nausea, sore breasts, or mood swings. All of which sound like a chronic case of PMS.
However, some women can experience more serious problems that require immediate medical attention in a doctor’s office, urgent care center, or emergency room for evaluation. These side effects include abdominal pain (stomach pain), chest pain, severe headaches, eye problems (blurred vision), and swelling and/or aching in the legs and thighs. If any of these symptoms manifest, there is a possibility of a more serious disorder such as liver disease, gallbladder disease, stroke, blood clots, high blood pressure, or heart disease.
In addition, many women over 35 or those who smoke shouldn’t take birth control pills, specifically. Neither should women who have or have had blot clots in the arms, legs, and lungs. Women who have had a parent, brother, sister, or child with blood clots should also avoid the pills. Those with serious heart or liver disease or who have cancer of the breast or uterus should also avoid the pills.
So I want to know, if this is all about women’s health, why are they promoting this?
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