Click here for a recent article by Jason Ryan in the Beaufort Gazette (excerpted below).

Birth control advocate speaks at Planned Parenthood event

Planned Parenthood advocate Alexander Sanger spoke Wednesday night at The Arsenal about women’s reproductive rights and the importance of changing the perception of planned parenthood services.

Sanger, chairman of the International Planned Parenthood Council and grandson of birth control activist Margaret Sanger, told about 50 people that Planned Parenthood advocates must alter the semantics of the reproductive debate.

“(We must) move away from the negative of preventing unwanted pregnancies,” Sanger said. “Let’s talk about the positive … that men and women want to reproduce successfully.”

I recently did an interview with Larry Mantle on 89.3 KPCC; click here to download the RealAudio file for the show.

The story on the effects, if any, of hormonal contraception on the transmission of sexually transmitted infections is not over. Another study by the same researchers is almost completed, and the results either confirming or not the previous study that I cited in my ealier post of Sept 22 should be available in a few months.
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The 2004 Presidential election was not a pro-life mandate for President Bush.
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I just listened to the interview I did last week on the Albert Mohler Program which was followed by commentary from Dr. Mohler and his listeners after I had left the show. I wish I had been invited to remain and to respond to all their comments.
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You can listen to a recent radio interview from the Albert Mohler program by clicking here and choosing between the RealAudio and MP3 formats.

(If you want, you can download the MP3 of the entire chat by right-clicking or control-clicking this link and selecting “save target as” or “download linked file as,” depending on your browser.)

Here’s an excerpt from a recent story in the Winston-Salem Journal by Janice Gaston (you can read the entire article by clicking here):

Anne Higgins, the mother of Margaret Sanger, died of tuberculosis at the age of 50. Sanger, a pioneer in reproductive issues, believed that the punishment her mother’s body took during 18 pregnancies sapped her strength and contributed to Higgins’ death.

Eleven of Higgins’ children survived. Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was the sixth. She bore just three of her own. Trained as a nurse, she spent much of her life educating women about contraception and advocating the development and use of birth control.

Her grandson, Alexander Sanger of New York, took up the issue of reproductive rights during the Reagan administration. In 1984, Reagan signed an executive order that prohibited the United States from giving money to organizations overseas that promoted or performed abortions.

“As the son of two doctors, as well as the grandson of Margaret Sanger, I thought that was an outrage,” Sanger said.

Here are links for two recent radio interviews: a discussion with Kalamazoo’s Gordon Evans on WMUK, and a talk on the WGBH Cambridge Forum.

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The Pill is the most studied drug in history, and a good thing too since it is taken by healthy women. Many of the benefits and detriments are well known and for the most part are disclosed on the FDA warning label. The benefit of pregnancy prevention is of course the major benefit, but there are others relating to disease and cancer prevention. Women experience different side effects, most of which are fully disclosed. One of the more serious downsides that gets less attention than it deserves is the loss of libido among some women on the Pill. This side effect is by no means universal and some women experience the opposite. It is clearly something needing further study. There has been extensive study of what the increased risks might or might not be of breast cancer and cardio-vascular events in some patients taking certain formulations of the Pill. The research and debate continues.
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