Contraceptives ?can cause cancer?

To the editor:

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.

Women and girls deserve truthful and scientifically accurate information about risks that endanger their health and lives. The truth is that the use of systemic contraceptives, also abortion, can cause breast and other cancers and serious if not life threatening medical side effects.

In 2005 the World Health Organization declared that artificial contraceptives are carcinogenic on par with cigarettes and asbestos. Teenagers are most and increasingly at risk especially at younger ages and before the birth of a first child.

In a recent publication the National Cancer Institute emphasized that contraception also brings the risk of cervical and liver cancer.

The link between the ?pill? and breast cancer, also stroke, hypertension and diabetes is well established.

The Susan Komen organization (Komen for the Cure) gives substantial monies to Planned Parenthood the largest purveyor of artificial family planning programs and abortion.

Natural Family Planning is a term for various methods of fertility awareness used by couples to achieve, postpone, or avoid pregnancies. NFP is 99 percent effective when properly learned and practiced and can help build better marriages by enhancing communication and respect between spouses and by keeping God at the center of married love. It is accepted by all major religions including the Catholic Church as a means of spacing babies or limiting family size as well as to conceive a child. It is simple and available here in Fairfield.

For more information about upcoming Natural Family Planning classes please contact Marianne McGregor, M.D. by email at mem.1980@hotmail.com.

? Mary LaFrancis, Fairfield