The Pill
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Women today are faced with an increasing degree of freedom over their lives. From the bedroom to the boardroom women are beginning to realize their potential and take matters that concern them into their own hands. One such choice now available to women may not be so beneficial according to Barbara Seaman in her recent book warning women of the often serious health risks of taking “the Pill.” Birth control measures represent to many a means of controlling population while at the same time allowing women more freedom of choice when it comes to their sex lives. However, in The Doctor’s Case Against The Pill, Seaman warns that choosing the pill may result in strokes, depression, obesity, blood clots, and heart attacks. Further, she holds the medical profession and pharmaceutical companies responsible for being sexist, greedy, and incompetent. Many physicians are opposed to the pill, but others view their primary role not as practitioners of women’s health but as social engineers or population controllers. As Seaman (45) relates regarding a Nobel Prize winning doctor who spoke before the American Medical Association (AMA) “The dangers of overpopulation are so great that we may have to use certain techniques of conception control that may entail considerable risk to the individual woman.”Seaman reports that fewer women are taking the pill because of learning of the dangerous side effects and health risks from its use. High levels of estrogen are
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Approximate Word count = 818
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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