Hormonal birth control makes you fat, doubles risk of depression & triples risk of suicide.
This is the clear scientific consensus, but very few people seem to know it.
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Weight can be shed, depression can be managed, and suicidal ideation can be overcome.
Meanwhile, an unwanted pregnancy has it's own laundry list of health issues and risks, but pointing those out makes the Conservative death cult you've opted to suckle on angry, doesn't it Musky?
I believe Musk, a product of South African apartheid, has become convinced of the Great Replacement theory, hence his opposition to birth control. He also has 11 children of his own, by 3 different women.
@TheKingOfRhye #190296
I looked it up. There are some studies that show a link between Birth control and depression and suicide, but other studies found that there wasn’t. Also of the ones that did it’s not clear if that’s because birth control causes depression or if women with depression use more birth control, nor is it clear that even if birth control causes depression if it’s worse then unwanted pregnancies, which also cause depression and suicide.
Weight can be controlled through exercise and dieting.
There’s a very reliable Danish study showing that hormonal contraception were associated with an increased risk of developing depression, especially with the progesterone-only forms and in the 15-19 age bracket. Even then, 2.2 out of 100 women who used hormonal birth control developed depression, compared to 1.7 out of 100 who did not, amounting to a rise of 29% on a very small number, and not the 100% you claimed.
As for completed suicide, while it might be reasonable to expect a small rise given the study I cited above, this paper found several figures to suicidal risk rise, such as 36% with higher doses of estrogen; another study quited by this same paper (which refined the studied population) found a 56% rise the first month, which falls to 48% after a year. In all, this paper found figures ranging from 208% to -62% : again, the worst figure, which would produce a trebling of suicide risk, seems to be an outlier, and some of the studies listed there show a protective effect, along with this one .
And again, you didn’t account for the mental effect of precarity caused by an unwanted and unplanned pregnancy (22% more likely to be depressed).
Suicidal birth control makes you fat, doubles disk of repression & triples risk of hormone.
This fear is now the scientific sensus, but very new people seem to clock it.
@Skybison #190300
I mean, sure, there are potential problems that can come with hormonal birth control. I don't think anyone would deny that.
But even if everything Elon said was actually true, the solution would not be to reject the very idea of birth control. The solution would be to develop better birth control, that didn't carry those side effects.
Confused?
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