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The pill will send you on vacation, but wait – there’s more

Planned Parenthood (and other birth control advocates) would like you and me to believe that “The Pill” is a little tablet of goodness that will make your troubles disappear, leaving you as free as one of those skipping ladies on a Kotex commercial. They feed off consumers’ response to their emotional appeals, while failing to inform women of the serious health issues hormonal contraception involves. Most recently, Planned Parenthood created a fictional character, “Pillamina”  (a woman dressed up as a birth control case), who went through her week enjoying all sorts of things she wouldn’t have without…you guessed it. The Pill. And now, thanks to the passing of the Affordable Care Act, contraception advocates will soon be able to access hormonal contraception free of charge.

As they celebrate the passing of the new law on August 1, check out these photos Planned Parenthood used to document “Pillamina’s” week of joy, compliments of free birth control:

 

To sum their photo campaign up, Planned Parenthood wants us to believe that using The Pill for free will:

  • Save you tons of money
  • Enable you to have a better career than a woman not on The Pill
  • Be free!
  • Keep you safe and healthy
  • Save you even more money

This reminds me of an infomercial. Planned Parenthood promotes The Pill and promises you it will do wonderful things while saving you money [they estimate it costs $15 to $50 a month totaling $180 to $600 a year], but do any of these photos mention the horrendous side effects? How it works? What it can do to your body? Nope, nope, and nope. They’re missing that part at the end where they tell you “Wait, there’s more!” All you get from Planned Parenthood is that this magic pill will make you the empowered woman you want to be.

They don’t tell you that The Pill can cause breast cancer and contribute toward strokes, among many other side effects. If anyone looks at statistics and real-life stories (not made up ones of “Pillamina”), she will see that it isn’t all rainbows and flowers. Planned Parenthood needs to grow up and get down to the facts. The Pill is not about saving money. It’s about Planned Parenthood making money, and they will stop at nothing to get you to take this dangerous pill.

   
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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003586781928 Magdalene Prodigal

    Safe and healthy??? Yeah, steroids do a lot for a gal. Lets see: they contribute to cancers and sterility and the promiscuity that leads to sexually transmitted diseases and heartbreak.
    Safe? Well they do contribute to strokes and so on but so what?

    • peach

      I bet you’d love to send all those women on the pill to the Magdalene laundries eh?

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1035056673 Mari Tatlow Steed

        Indeed, that’s exactly what they want. The hidden agenda of the “pro-life movement” (could there be a more oxymoronic tag than that?) would love nothing better than to send us all straight back to the Baby Scoop Era, working hand in glove (in the guise of ‘pregnancy crisis counseling centers’) with the billion-dollar adoption industry to prop up greatly depleted ‘stock’. How else do you think they will create more womb-fresh white infants from which to make a profit? These so-called pro-lifers are only concerned with a clump of cells living parasitically in a woman’s body. Once you’re out of the oven, they could give a crap about you — unless they can make a profit via adoption. As a “profitable product” of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, mother-baby homes, the ensuing trafficking of children to the US between the 1940s-1960s, and an entire, brutal architecture of containment and abuse of women, I can personally attest to just how rabidly anti-women and anti-life these fools are. But oh yeah…it’s the ‘secular left and their stooges’ responsible for the war on women. Nothing worse than self-loathing women taking their views from crusty old men in dresses who worship money and sky gods (in that order).

  • http://www.facebook.com/beverly.harlton Beverly Harlton

    Well, good for Pillamina. I wonder how those who now pay for her joy-filled, carefree life are faring. I guess it doesn’t matter because they’re rich and we deserve to have them subsidise our bedroom activities! Free isn’t free, folks.

  • JTLiuzza

    It actually makes me embarrassed for women that they fall for this stupidity and in fact the whole feminist schtick. “We’re worthless unless we ingest chemicals to shut down our reproductive systems so that we can have as much sex as we want!”

    Or even better the “woman good, man bad” idiocy which pits those who were created for one another against one another. “We’re as good as men, no we’re even better. We need those bastages like a fish needs a bicycle. Yeah!!”

    Idiots.

    Wake up, ladies. You have been sold a bunch of malarkey since the sixties and swallowed it all. The real “war on women” has been raging for quite some time and has always been waged by the secular left and their stooges in the democrat party.

    • Detroiter327

      Wow! Thanks for channeling Rush there, buddy! Contraception is not about a bunch of women running around trying to enable their nymphomania. The majority of women on the pill are either married or are in a cohabiting/serious relationship . Contraception is about choosing the responsible time to bring a baby into the world, not whatever odd patriarchal viewpoint you are trying to hint at.

      • Laura Peredo

        Unfortunately, places like Planned Parenthood have led society to believe that indeed ” contraception is about choosing the responsible time to bring a baby into the world”, but is just isn’t so.

        Contraception about having intercourse without consequences. It’s wanting the pleasure without the natural result, the responsibility, and the self-sacrificing aspect love was meant to have.

        The choice comes before the baby is conceived. Want to choose the right time to have a baby? Choose the right time to make one.

        • peach

          Contraception has existed for years and years before Planned Parenthood was ever a thing. Sex is natural. Orgasms are natural. Not wanting to have a baby when you can’t afford to have one is natural. Do you believe that even married couples should not be having sex unless they want a child? Married women are on the pill too ya know, it’s not just for hussies and suffragettes.

        • Detroiter327

          Agreeing with Peach here, PP did not spawn birth control. Nor is the majority of birth control in this country prescribed by PP clinics, its odd how you refer to them hand in hand. Im honestly perplex by what your last statement. Are you saying that all sex should result in babies? Im also confused how you decided to use responsibility. In my opinion picking a time where you are most stable to bring a child into the world is the responsible thing to do, for the sake of the child! Is it really responsible to have a child when you are not ready? If you are married should you abstain from all sex because you are not ready for a child?

      • Michelle Lynn

        What about those times the pill fails? Or causes early abortions by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting into the the uterus?

        • Detroiter327

          1) Recent science has shown that the implantation theory is a myth and nothing more. The amount of science disagreeing with you is staggering, and more is coming. If you prefer to use antiquated science from 20 years ago as opposed to the most modern, I suggest the next time you have a health problem that you dont trust modern science and ask the doctor to use the same procedures they did in the 80′s.
          2)The failure rate for the pill is manageable and fairly small, its fairly minuscule when taken perfectly. The pill has never been advertised as 100% effective, as no prescription your doctor will ever prescribe you will be. Again if you have a problem with a failure rate between 5-8% (depending on the source) I recommend you abdicate any and all medical treatment right now, in the medical community that is a fairly high success rate.

          • Michelle Lynn

            Is it theoretically possible? I know it doesnt happen every time a woman uses the pill but know it could is enough for me to opt for Natural Family Planning. My beef is not only with oral contraceptives but contraceptives as a whole. It turns sex into a fruitless source of pleasure. Of course its supposed to feel good, and it doesn’t always result in new life but we can not snuff out its possibility.

          • Detroiter327

            There has never been any evidence that suggests birth control works after implantation. There have, however, been several studies that show it does not. Even a portion of the America Association of Pro Life OBGYN’s have said it has no bearing on implantation, those who are on the other side of the fence will still admit they have no evidence.
            If you dont like the idea of contraception as a whole, that is fine with me. Women who know they are not ready to have a baby should not be chided (or be branded as idiots who cant keep their legs closed as @JTLiuzza:disqus did) for attempting to act responsibly. I cannot understand how any woman would argue against wanting to bring a child into a healthy, happy, and stable home. For a good portion of women thats what contraception is about.

          • cali

            @Detroiter327 – I don’t know how you can say it doesn’t cause abortions by preventing implantation?! It states right in the contraceptive package that this is one of the ways it works.

          • Michelle Lynn

            @Detroiter327 Yeah why would they state it on the leaflet if it so untrue? And why would my doctor explain it to me that way? You arent talking to someone who hasnt experienced this, remember.

          • Detroiter Lacks Evidence

            Detroiter327, time to check those sources out. The pill isn’t about finding a responsible time for a baby. It’s about having sex when you want to and avoiding consequences. Why try to sell that otherwise? There will never be a situation when having a baby is 100% perfect. The article is about these ads selling the idea that you’ll save money and be free and taking the pill puts women ahead.

            Take a look at what the pill has actually done: A woman’s natural fertility is so repulsive that she must find ways to chemically change her body to be acceptable at the grocery store, in the boardroom, and in society.

            You need to conduct proper research and have sources cited if you’re going to run about making false claims. What exactly do you think the pill does? Magically prevents the baby? Just read the leaflet as others have said. There are other ways to prevent a baby, not by providing women with a copay-free chemical so they’re good enough to be in society.

      • kscrawler

        So how has that worked out? We’ve had the pill for 40+ years. Is the number of unplanned pregnancies going down or up? We were told the pill would lead to the disapearance of abortion because there would be no more unwanted pregnancies. So has the number of abortions gone up or down? You know the answers to these questions. You theory is great, but 40 years of facts show you are very very wrong.

        • Detroiter327

          Actually the amount of pregnancies and abortions have decreased in the past 20 years while the amount of contraception use has increased. So yes, there actually is a link between increased contraception use and less abortions. I did know the answers to those questions :) Please note that stating a FACT (i.e more women who use the pill are married or are in serious relationships) cannot be confused with a theory. When you have numbers to back you up it is not a theory.

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1035056673 Mari Tatlow Steed

          Abortion will never disappear and has always existed, as has birth control. And the latest and most respected statistics argue against your postulations. The number of domestic adoptions has also dropped dramatically since the introduction of the pill and safe, legal abortion. Roe v Wade didn’t start abortions…it stopped women from dying from them.

  • peach

    I don’t know about the rest of you, but I love taking birth control advice from a bunch of virgins.

    • Michelle Lynn

      Well peach let me speak to you as a former user of the pill and fomerly sexually active woman. I felt incredibly anxious and used. I actually feel more free now living chastely and not having to have a heart attack everytime I get strep throat because anti-biotics reduce the effectivity of oral contraceptives. Also I feel as though I can spend time with man so he can get to know me, not my body. I am a home not a hotel.

      • peach

        Why do you associate the pill with promiscuity? Most girls I know, even if on the pill, always make the guy wear a condom when the relationship starts off or if it’s not a serious relationship. They rely only on the pill only in serious, committed relationships, because as you should know, the pill doesn’t protect against STDs. As for the whole antibiotic thing, well, just use a condom as well during that time.

        • Michelle Lynn

          I don’t. I don’t think I was promiscuous at the time of my use of the pill. However, sex before marriage does allow someone to rent your body, and vice versa. Contraception just makes it easier to do that. It turns into them spending time with your body instead of spending time with you. You never intend to use eachother, But alas we do. We are products of this culture where this sort of thing is considered normal. We take something that was meant for “forever” and turn it into “for now” and essentially lie with our bodies, becoming more jaded with each committed and well meaning relationship. Its exhasuting and not how we were made to be.

          • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1035056673 Mari Tatlow Steed

            Riiiight…*contraception* makes it easier. Several posts above, someone snarkily complained about some pseudo-nonsense that “the pill earned us our place in the workforce” (who would EVER say that? Certainly no feminist I know of) and decried that nonsense as “sexist.” And here all along I thought it was just a pill that prevents ill-timed pregnancy, corrects certain severe menstrual issues and may cause cancer in some women. So which is it? Does a little pill make it easier for us to be promiscuous/rent our bodies out, or does it earn us our place in the workforce? Or are those decisions we as women make and can thank our forebears (including many “Catholic foremothers”) for the right to do so? Can we please get clear on this LiveAction? Apparently promiscuity and fetuses or the lack of them are all the fault of a little pill, not the woman, her brain, her morals and her decisions. Personal accountability is a non-starter? Every woman has the right to control her own destiny, her own body, including whether or not she wishes to engage in sex, use contraceptives, and stop an unplanned pregnancy. The law says so. You stay out of my uterus and I’ll stay out of yours.

    • http://twitter.com/Astraspider Astraspider

      peach, I think you just won the internet!

    • http://twitter.com/CalFreiburger Calvin Freiburger

      Ah, now there’s the maturity we’ve come to expect from the pro-choice movement….

  • http://twitter.com/Astraspider Astraspider

    I hate to be a broken record, but I’m going to keep pointing this out until LiveAction writers can get it right. When you say “thanks to the passing of the Affordable Care Act, contraception
    advocates will soon be able to access hormonal contraception free of
    charge”, you’re being (maybe deliberately) ignorant about how health insurance works. If you pay a premium for your insurance, as the great majority of insured peoples do, nothing is truly “free”. You’re paying an upfront price to have your health care risks managed. I know complaining about “free contraceptives!” is way more pithy than complaining about “contraceptives with no co-pay!”, but the serial misuse of this piece of misinformation around here just points to rhetorical laziness.

    I’ll dovetail with peach’s sentiments here. What’s worse? Virgins giving us advice on birth control? Or people who don’t understand the insurance market lambasting worthwhile regulations on the insurance market?

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  • GoodPoints

    Excellent point! The advertisements overlook what women have actually done in organizations and academia, and instead say, “Women must be corrected by the pill to get ahead.”

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1035056673 Mari Tatlow Steed

      You must be watching different ads than I do…don’t recall that ever being said.

  • BLAH

    Hmmm… so you guys oppose birth control and abortion. That makes PERFECT sense. =/