Which brings us to: well, it is women taking the contraceptive pill who are causing this pollution.
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When another reader asked if the contraceptive pill was "deductible", she replied: "Only if they don't work".
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The contraceptive pill, available in America for nearly 40 years, is banned in Japan, although the ban may be lifted soon.
The study also looked at the role of the contraceptive pill, which has been previously suspected of cutting the risk of rheumatoid arthritis.
The levels of estradiol from the patch are about 60 percent higher than in women taking the typical oral contraceptive pill, she says.
As has been shown in other studies, women with ovarian cancer were less likely to have taken the contraceptive pill and had fewer children.
But if they have then yes, the end result really is that women should be charged a higher tax for using the contraceptive pill.
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But Japan has once again decided to remain one of the few countries in the world to outlaw the use of the contraceptive pill.
Evangelicals generally permit the use of birth control, but they object to specific methods such as the morning-after contraceptive pill, which they argue is tantamount to abortion.
Fifty years after the contraceptive pill was first licensed in America and 37 years after the Supreme Court legalised abortion, women seem to agonise more than ever about breeding.
The Plan B emergency contraceptive pill works by preventing ovulation or by blocking a potentially fertilized egg from becoming implanted in a woman's uterus, according to the drug's label.
That suggests the trends are driven mainly by deep-seated forces, such as the changing social attitudes that accompanied the contraceptive pill, and the increased participation of women in the labour force.
The Food and Drug Administration denied a petition Monday by a reproductive rights advocacy group that sought to lift all prescription requirements for an older version of the Plan B emergency contraceptive pill on the eve of a federal court hearing on the issue.
Dr Tonge, who was a family planning doctor before entering politics, also said that some doctors told women the pill was "dangerous" and tried to scare them off it, but she stressed that it was simply a larger dose of the same hormones contained in an ordinary contraceptive pill.
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One of the features of those who believe BPA is very dangerous is a communicative approach that sensationalizes their findings, such as claiming that allowing your baby to drink out of a plastic bottle is equivalent to giving them a contraceptive pill, or that BPA is the biological equivalent of global warming.
Moreover, the Japanese government forbids pharmaceutical companies to give information on the contraceptive use of the pill, so most of the women who take it have little knowledge of the risks and benefits.
With current oral contraceptive regimens, women take the pill for 21 consecutive days and have 13 periods a year.
But let some pro-life employers say they oppose having to provide contraceptive coverage including the morning-after pill, which aborts a fertilized egg to their employees and the left throws the First Amendment out the window.
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Still, according to a 2002 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the leading contraceptive method among women ages 15 to 29 is the pill.
The basic problem is that the hormones in the pill itself, the hormones which produce the desired contraceptive effect, then end up in the sewage system as part of the normal function of kidneys and bladders in human beings.
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Dr Amy Berrington, of Cancer Research UK, said the link between oral contraceptive use and cancer risk was highly complex, with studies showing that taking the Pill reduced ovarian and endometrial cancer risk, but increased the risk of breast cancer risk and probably also cervical cancer.
Dr Holt said women who are overweight should not ask for a higher dose Pill, because they were already at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease which contraceptive hormones increase even more.
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