Visit blog.abstinence.net for up-to-date commentary and discussion. - by Communications [5.29.2007] « SEE ALL ARTICLES CONDOMS/CONTRACEPTION : THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF ORAL CONTRACEPTION POSTED: JUL 15, 2009 Joel Brind, MD, explains in this article the actual classification of birth control hormones as steroids and the likely damage they wreak on breast tissue, the environment, other species, and human fertility: “But few in the general public are aware that oral contraceptives ("the Pill"), levonorgestrel ("the morning-after pill"), and mifepristone, or RU-486 ("the abortion pill"), are also all steroids. In fact, they are the same sort of synthetic anabolic steroids that are illegal for professional athletes to take, but they are anabolic for female tissues (like breast tissue) rather than muscle…In 2006, the World Health Organization acknowledged that the estrogen-plus-progestin drugs (birth control pills and combination hormone replacement drugs like Prem-Pro) cause cancers in the breast, cervix, and liver.” (Source: http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/bri/bri_01steroids.html) To access the full Resource Library, enter your member username and password here: user id: password:   Abstinence Clearinghouse 801 East 41st Street Sioux Falls, SD 57105 » info@abstinence.net 888-577-2966 (orders only please) 605-335-3643 Privacy Policy Please correspond to the DC Office through our main location in SD. Abstinence Clearinghouse DC Office 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20004 (202)204-3055 This website is funded by non-governmental private funds.