NFP Versus the Pill: One feminist's view

[Michie]

Imagine the following scenario. For over a year a girl has chronic knee pain that she just can't ignore anymore. So she goes to her doctor and tells and tells him the pain is often a level 9, and that it is unrelated to an injury. The doctor does s brief exam, and then tells her that he can't see a definite cause but that some people just have pain. He then hands her a script for some pain meds and tells her that will fix it.

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http://blog.onefaithonline.com/blog/article/nfp-a-feminist-solution

 

[Fantine]

My daughter had three roommates on her tenth grade choir trip. I was a chaperone. She told me they were all taking the pill, one for acne, one for cramps, one for some other reason.

When she was in eleventh grade, she had a ruptured ovarian cyst that brought her to the emergency room at 2 a.m. We were told she should take the pill. She had one more episode over the next few months. She did take the pill for a period of time, but she would miss and double up and I told her that if she didn't take it as directed she would probably have more problems than she did initially, so we stopped getting it. Her ovarian cysts never came back.

I think that most doctors feel they're doing a favor recommending the pill to girls they believe will become sexually active by the time they're in college. Their parents won't even protest--because it's to cure a physical illness, and TBT, many of them will sleep easier at night.

That being said, I believe that there are definitely some problems, such as endometriosis, that do require hormonal intervention. NFP won't cure serious problems like endometriosis.

Girls who've been taking the pill from the time they were 14 probably won't even realize how much better they might feel without it.

 

[epiclesis]

My daughter had three roommates on her tenth grade choir trip. I was a chaperone. She told me they were all taking the pill, one for acne, one for cramps, one for some other reason.

When she was in eleventh grade, she had a ruptured ovarian cyst that brought her to the emergency room at 2 a.m. We were told she should take the pill. She had one more episode over the next few months. She did take the pill for a period of time, but she would miss and double up and I told her that if she didn't take it as directed she would probably have more problems than she did initially, so we stopped getting it. Her ovarian cysts never came back.

I think that most doctors feel they're doing a favor recommending the pill to girls they believe will become sexually active by the time they're in college. Their parents won't even protest--because it's to cure a physical illness, and TBT, many of them will sleep easier at night.

That being said, I believe that there are definitely some problems, such as endometriosis, that do require hormonal intervention. NFP won't cure serious problems like endometriosis.

Girls who've been taking the pill from the time they were 14 probably won't even realize how much better they might feel without it.

Bolding mine.

NaPro Technology addresses the sources of these cycle/fertility/etc. issues in women. They can remove the endometriosis and let women go on to have successful pregnancies and fewer problems.

Here's a link directing to the surgical page, but you can read lots more on the rest of their pages.

http://www.naprotechnology.com/surgical.htm