Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The Pill: Not Just For Pregnancy Prevention

The Pill: Not Just For Pregnancy Prevention: "Well, here's another twist in the debate over whether birth control is an essential health benefit. More than 1.5 million American women use birth control pills for reasons other than preventing pregnancy, a new analysis finds.

The nonprofit Guttmacher Institute, using federal survey data from the National Survey of Family Growth, found that 14 percent of pill users said they were taking the medication for a purpose other than contraception.

The pill users include an estimated 762,000 women who've never had sex. Ninety-five percent of them cited reasons other than birth control for their use of the pill...."

2 comments:

MotivatedinOhio said...

Many women take the pill for other reasons.  The right wing doesn't seem to care about health.

Underground Politics said...

Not at all.