Sheila Malone’s March 27 letter concerning low-dose hormones (birth control pills) in treating a fairly common condition is very dangerous and misleading.

In 2005, the World Health Organization listed oral contraceptives as Group 1carcinogens, the same group containing asbestos and cigarettes.

Oral contraceptives, they say, cause breast, liver and cervical cancer. Even low-dose estrogen pills have been associated with higher breast cancer risks. As one of breast surgeon, Dr. Lanfranchi’s patients said: “I’d rather have hot flashes than breast cancer.”

Combined oral contraceptives, including rings, patches, injectables and implantables are synthetic anabolic sex steroid hormones that build breast tissue. They are the same kind of steroids illegally used by athletes to build muscle, but they are the female, not the male type — which cause liver cancer.

The Breast Cancer Prevention Institute (www.bcpinstitute.org) recommends, don’t take hormones for disease treatments for which other non-hormonal treatments are equally effective. Actonal, Fosamax, calcium supplements and exercise can reduce osteoporosis without the need for estrogen. Acne can be treated with antibiotics. Menstrual cramps can be treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as Ibuprophen.

Malone decried the male Senate committee for not letting Sandra Fluke testify. (Maybe they also knew that Fluke was a 30-year-old activist). They probably knew the horrors that synthetic anabolic sex steroids cause in destroying women’s lives and health. Studies indicate a two-fold increased risk of fatal heart attacks among low-dose users compared to nonusers.

There is a 3-11 times increased risk of developing blood clots among pill users.

At the same time Barack Obama forces U.S. women soldiers to wear Islamic headcoverings, he forces Christian employers, pastors and institutions to violate their consciences or risk penalties and possibly prosecution.

Ron J. Stauble Sr.

Unity

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