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Religion Cited for Denial of Emergency Contraception to Oklahoma Rape Victim

May 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Leslie Carol Botha: Once again another skirmish arises in this year’s social/political/religious was on women’s bodies. Justin Rosario has written a provocative summary not only of this rape victim’s traumatic experience at the hospital, when she was denied a rape exam, and then denied emergency contraception. First assaulted by a rapist and then raped again by the hospital administration. This is not a liberal issue. Every woman has the right to decide if she wants to carry a pregnancy to term. Especially a rape victim. It is gratifying to hear this outrage coming from a man.

Filed Under: Emergency Contraception, Featured Post, Inconvenient Woman, Rape, Violence Against Women Tagged With: , ,

Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Publishes Feminist Perspective on Menstrual Cycle

May 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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The Menstrual Cycle is one of the most important biological differences between females and males, one that has been used – in many contexts — to justify discrimination against women and girls. Thus, the more clearly we understand the biological and social significance of the menstrual cycle for both women and men, the better we understand the fundamental arrangements of human society.

Filed Under: Hormone Health World News, Menstrual Health Education, Menstruation, Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Tagged With: , ,

Is the Pill Becoming Obsolete in Favor of ‘Forget-About-It’ Birth Control?

May 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Photo: Public Domain // LARC birth control methods are highly effective, in part, because women can "forget about them."

[Leslie Carol Botha: Laura Wershler has written an excellent commentary on a disturbing new trend in birth control. When women stop becoming mindful about their bodies and their menstrual cycles and start 'masking' them with long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), they are also affecting their overall health, and the health of their offspring.

Filed Under: Birth Control Pills/BCP's, Featured Post, Hormone Health US News, Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, Unintended Pregnancy Tagged With: ,

Thousands of Teenagers Resorting to Abortion for Birth Control

May 28, 2012 by 2 Comments
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Leslie Carol Botha: It is appalling that in the last 30 years safe and effective birth control for women has not been developed. It is now known that hormonal contraceptives cause a myriad of health problems in women. We are subjected to injections, and pills that harm our health and may even damage our fertility. Women are now going into puberty and menopause at an earlier and earlier age. Although I am pro-choice - I also recognize that abortion - as it exists now is an industry performing traumatizing, legalized rape on women’s bodies

Filed Under: Abortion, Birth Control, Featured Post, Hormone Health World News, Mothers & Daughters, Pregnancy, Teens Tagged With: , , ,

Reminder To Women and Girls that We Can Set the World on Fire and Our Power is Great

May 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Chemaly states: “Girls, these things happen because there are men with power who fear you and want to control you. ” These are important words and - the reason why H.Sandra Chevalier-Batik and I have dedicated our lives to making women aware of their health…

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Gene Discovery May Lead to New Contraceptive for Men

May 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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[Female Mystique Icon] Leslie Carol Botha: Sure, women have been ingesting, being injected with and subjected to a continuous release of synthetic hormones for years - increasing our risk of getting cancer in the name of controlling fertility.

And the first potential birth control device for men is non-hormonal? Holy Hormones Honey!

Filed Under: Birth Control, Hormone Health US News, Men's Health, Women's Health Tagged With: ,

Girl Had Hysterectomy Because of Undetected Cervical Cancer - too young for pap

May 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Natalie Carney, 22, has been diagnosed with cervical cancer

[Leslie Carol Botha: This is a travesty. Young women having sex at an early age and are unable to get pap tests. In fact, an article came out last year saying that labs were turning away the smears of girls younger than 25 without even testing them. If a girl is going to have sex she needs to learn how to be accountable for safe sex and that is through annual exams. These girls are perhaps passing STD's around without even knowing it.

Filed Under: Cervical Cancer, Featured Post, Hormone Health World News, Hysterectomy, PAP Smear/PAP Test Tagged With: , , ,

100′s of women at risk for cervical cancer after incorrect pap smears

May 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In the U.K. smear tests are offered to women aged 25 to 64 to test for pre-cancerous cells

Holy Hormones Honey! Say what? Something smells very Mercky here… Pap smear procedures are relatively simple and it is really hard to believe that a medic had been doing the procedure incorrectly for 13 years. Am wondering if this is a way to diminish the importance of pap smears in favor of the HPV vaccines. Would not put that past Merck & Co.’s (the maker of Gardasil) marketing team. Fear factor has been a major part of their vaccine campaign. Don’t ya love it when doctor’s say ‘the risk is very low.? Then why are we vaccinating millions of adolescent girls?

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New Trend - Women Controlled by Birth Control?

May 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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[Holy Hormones Honey! Study shows that women on the pill are 20 times more likely to get pregnant. Well, no surprise here... since human nature is involved. Aaah.... beware of the wolf in sheep's clothing and the fear and manipulation of women to get on a birth control method that drips synthetic hormones into their Continue Reading …

Filed Under: Birth Control Pills/BCP's, Featured Post, Hormone Health US News, Implanon, IUD's, Teen Pregnancy, Unintended Pregnancy Tagged With: , , , ,

Justice Department: 1 in 3 Native American Women Raped

May 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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One in three American Indian women have been raped or have experienced an attempted rape, according to the Justice Department. Their rate of sexual assault is more than twice the national average. And no place, women’s advocates say, is more dangerous than Alaska’s isolated villages, where there are no roads in or out, and where people are further cut off by undependable telephone, electrical and Internet service.

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