In an ostensible attempt to undermine reports that people have been sharing about the harmful effects of hormonal birth manage on their physical and mental health, TikTok and The Washington Post are in the news.
The Post reported on Thursday that “women are getting off birth control amid ] a] propaganda explosion,” referring to the torrent of videos of young people in their teens and 20s discussing how drastically their lives have improved since using natural fertility consciousness practices and hormonal birth control.
One young lady wrote for The New York Post,” For more and more Gen Z people, there’s an intuitive feeling that hormonal birth control may be messing with us, and our hippocampus.” ” And study is backing it up, showing correlations between the tablet and a decreased sexual drive, as well as higher rates of depression and suicide, and yet anxiety reactions related to]post- traumatic stress disorder ] survivors”.
Many of my friends are also independently living in the same circumstances, she continued, whether it’s because they are concerned about their mental health, or because they are interested in something more natural, or because they are curious about how the world works without being in a hormonal fog.
The Washington Post article, which was written by Lauren Weber and Sabrina Malhi, claims that” TikTok recently removed at least five videos linking birth control to mental health issues and other health issues” after The Post inquired how the business prevents the spread of misinformation.
According to Brett Cooper of The Daily Wire, one of those videos claimed that birth control can affect women’s attractiveness and weight gain as well as their fertility. That video “racked up over 219, 000 ‘ likes’ before TikTok removed it following The Post’s inquiry”, the newspaper noted.
TikTok did not immediately confirm to The Daily Signal whether it had reviewed Weber and Malhi’s misinformation before removing the videos. Weber and Malhi did not respond to inquiries for comment right away.
The host of The Spillover podcast, Alex Clark, who has received criticism for her outspoken opposition to birth control, called the Washington Post article “dishonest reporting,” which suggests only conservatives are opposed to hormonal birth control.
According to Clark,” Women of all political backgrounds have been screaming from the rooftops that ]hormonal birth control ] has caused a litany of health issues since the 1970s,” according to Clark. Birth control is prescribed to teenage girls like candy, according to the law. No in-depth discussion about side effects is had, and now those teenage girls have grown up, have opposing political viewpoints, and are dealing with the physical repercussions of HBC.
The pharmaceutical industry, according to Clark, pushes women to use birth control because it is a huge money-maker.
” Big Pharma is doing everything they can to squash this conversation, because women are their biggest cash cow”, she said. ” Get us on birth control as teens. Recommend antidepressants for the negative effects. Birth control acts as a band-aid in eradicating early signs of deeper hormonal or reproductive issues.
” When we’re ready to have a family, we find out”, she added. ” Now, we need to pay ]$ 20, 000] for fertility treatments. The gateway prescription drug to a lifetime of dependence on Big Pharma is birth control. If they lose the next generation of female birth control users, they worry that we wo n’t be permanently hooked. It was never about women. It was always about our money”.
The Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation has a senior research associate named Emma Waters, who also made an observation to The Daily Signal that the current political and religious opposition to birth control is unrelated to either. The Heritage Foundation’s news source is The Daily Signal.
” For years now, women have been sounding the alarm about the harms of hormonal birth control”, Waters said. ” In many cases, it has little to do with religious or ideological belief. Women are sick of receiving medical care that is “one size fits all,” which actually causes them harm. Gen Z women have had enough”.
Gen Z is “rebelling against the hyper-medicalized approach to dealing with any issue, from acne to painful or inconsistent hormonal cycles,” according to Waters in the viral accounts and videos about birth control and its effects.
And the researcher also made the suggestion that those who support birth control may be more out of touch than they realize.
The Washington Post article,” Frankly, really showed its age as older millennials lectured and dismissed the very real women whose own stories about the negative effects of hormonal birth control are influencing this movement to make women, not Big Pharma, the drivers of women’s reproductive health,” she continued.
Lila Rose, the founder of the pro- life organization Live Action, called TikTok’s censorship of Cooper’s video “insane and ridiculous”, adding that the “harms of birth control are well- documented, and the fact that TikTok is deleting content criticizing birth control should concern everyone”.
According to Rose,” to be anti-fertilizer is to be anti-woman,” and the proliferation of hormonal birth control is just another attempt to make women more like men, with significant effects on our emotional and physical health.”
And Brittany Martinez, the author of Evie magazine, claimed in a statement to The Washington Post’s Weber that she should be ashamed for” contributing to the widespread gaslighting and dismissing of women’s terrible experiences with birth control.”
” I’d say you’re out of touch and uninformed at best, but you’re also directly a part of TikTok censoring and removing viral videos of women speaking out,” she continued.
Sarah Hill, a research psychologist who herself stopped taking the pill and had positive health effects, reported to The New York Post earlier this year that she had” a lot more energy” and was back to cooking and exercising. Suddenly, I was interested in sex”.
She attributes the pandemic to assisting young women in taking a close look at their health.
Hill told The New York Post,” The pandemic allowed us to concentrate on our health.” It was an opportunity for women who were n’t in relationships and were n’t sexually active to break up with their birth control, according to the statement. They sought to know how they would perceive the world without it, feel, and experience it.
” This generation of women is demanding that they learn about what’s going on inside of their bodies,” Hill continued. ” A younger generation of women are saying,’ Hey, wait a minute. You ca n’t just dictate what to put in my body and expect me to opine defiantly.
Dr. Taraneh Shirazian, a gynecologist at NYU Langone Health, similarly told the publication that she sees a “generational shift” in attitudes toward birth control.
” I have noticed that many patients prefer non- hormonal birth control”, she explained. Many people want to cut down on their body’s exposure to external hormones so they can feel more natural and like themselves.
