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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, I'm all for realistic discussion of the risks of hormonal birth control. And they are there!

But it's not realistic discussion unless you acknowledge that pregnancy itself carries more risks of cause (not correlation, but causality) blood clots than birth control pills do. [b]So, of course you can choose other methods to avoid that, but it's better to be on hormonal control than get pregnant, if those options are limited. [/b]

These are the weighings of risk and benefit that lead to doctors being willing to prescribed hormonal contraception. OdGyns know that avoiding pregnancy for most of these issues is actually more important.

And hormonal contraception does increase the risk of breast cancer. Not a lot, but it does. Alcohol use (even at 3 standard drinks a week) increases it a lot more. If you have a family history, that's a really high risk, but most women don't. It's much, much more common to develop breast cancer without a family history than with one.

And yes, you can decrease your risk by avoiding hormonal contraception -- but if that's important to you, avoiding alcohol should be even more important to you. If you don't consider the increased risk with alcohol to be relevant, then you need to know that the risk from hormonal contraception is even less than that.

Just as we should not be silencing discussion about the risks of hormonal contraception, we ALSO should not be silencing the discussion that puts them into perspective. [/quote]

I can’t believe you wrote the bolded with a straight face. You have veered into outright absurdity here. Are you OP? [/quote]

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