Actually it is a true phenominon. There is a great deal of research in artificial hormones and phytoestrogens being released in great numbers into the Great Lakes as none of the water treatment is designed to clean them up. Decent and credible scientific research has indicated lower fertility among human males who drink that water and some ecological effects on some of the species within the great lakes. One of my ecology profs was scared shitless of endocrine disruptors.
Sadly, that seems to be the case. I'm sure that birth control results in SOME hormone or chemical output, but not more than, say, eating at McDonald's and I'll be holding my breath to see if the Church starts condemning the big mac.
Not just that, but as someone pointed out below, without birth control, we'd have significantly more people on the planet who would still be putting their hormones into the water.
Of the two outcomes, fewer people who can control when/if they give birth seems like the better one.
So, it appears someone "with authority" among the Catholics finally saw the pilot episode for Torchwood. (RE: Captain Jack's comment about estrogen-based birth control in rain water.)
Humans actually do excrete minute amounts of hormones, as do other animals. But without artificial birth control there would presumably be roughly 3 billion more women by now, excreting natural hormones, which have the same effect as synthetic ones.
For our next case, shouldn't we be worried about the devastating effect of male masturbation on the environment? Semen is a known immune suppressor after all. "Every time you masturbate, bacteria kill a kitten!"
In fairness, municipal water supplies do contain trace amounts of pretty much every medication that humans take. So, there are minute traces of processed birth control hormones in the water, and via the water, getting into the environment. In that, they are correct, tho they ignore the processed traces of everything else, like, ya know, narcotics. In claiming that zomg, birth control is making men's penises fall offnot work, they are clearly insane.
Do I think that there are a lot of female hormones in the water supply?
Yes
Do I think they contribute to infertility rates?
Yes
Do I think they come from birth control pills? No. Female hormones added to a woman's body do not come out whole in the urine. if they did then the hormones their body ALREADY PRODUCES would do the same.
As the article says, there are innumerable chemicals being introduced into our water supply that are the same or similar - from normal chemical pollution
Female hormones added to a woman's body do not come out whole in the urine. if they did then the hormones their body ALREADY PRODUCES would do the same.
...what do you think you are doing, using, like, logic? Don't you know that it's absurd and useless? Huh? Huh?
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Date: 2009-01-07 02:37 am (UTC)"We can't find any real reasons why people shouldn't take birth control, so we'll just make shit up."
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Date: 2009-01-07 04:29 am (UTC)http://www.belspo.be/belspo/home/publ/pub_ostc/MNDD2/rMN002s_en.pdf
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Date: 2009-01-07 12:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-07 12:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-07 02:28 pm (UTC)Of the two outcomes, fewer people who can control when/if they give birth seems like the better one.
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Date: 2009-01-07 03:23 pm (UTC)Yeah, sounds like organized religion.
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Date: 2009-01-07 04:18 am (UTC)Save me from your followers. Thank you."
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Date: 2009-01-07 08:07 am (UTC)Great.
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Date: 2009-01-07 08:24 am (UTC)For our next case, shouldn't we be worried about the devastating effect of male masturbation on the environment? Semen is a known immune suppressor after all. "Every time you masturbate, bacteria kill a kitten!"
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Date: 2009-01-07 12:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-07 10:09 am (UTC)fall offnot work, they are clearly insane.(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-07 12:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-07 12:52 pm (UTC)Yes
Do I think they contribute to infertility rates?
Yes
Do I think they come from birth control pills? No. Female hormones added to a woman's body do not come out whole in the urine. if they did then the hormones their body ALREADY PRODUCES would do the same.
As the article says, there are innumerable chemicals being introduced into our water supply that are the same or similar - from normal chemical pollution
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Date: 2009-01-07 03:58 pm (UTC)...what do you think you are doing, using, like, logic? Don't you know that it's absurd and useless? Huh? Huh?
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