Birth Control Research

This is a lazy post. I sent this info in an email to someone doing research on all things relating birth control. I thought you might be interested in the info too. Sorry I didn't find the time to make this into a real post.

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Here's the list of links I was telling you about. Again, I don't necessarily agree with all of them, but I think the topic of birth control is more nuanced than most of us take it for at first glance and is worth looking into various "out there" arguments to get a more rounded and comprehensive view.

Anti-Birth Control Movements...

If you haven't already familiarized yourself with the arguments behind the Quiverfull Movement and the Catholic view of birth control, I think that would be a good idea. While I don't agree with either view if full, I do think they both make some interesting arguments and are worth reading.

Quiverfull
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull_Movement
http://www.quiverfull.com/

Catholic View of Birth Control
http://www.catholic.com/library/Birth_Control.asp

Birth Control, Family Size & Being Green...

I can't find a good link for it at the moment (I'll see if I can send you something later), but I would also look at arguments regarding family size as it relates to global responsibility. The short version is that one side says it is irresponsible to have a lot of children (some say more than one child) because the Earth is going to run out of resources and more people mean more of a drain on those resources resulting in global hunger, etc. The other argument is that humans are our most valuable resource (look at what is happening to societies that have birth rates below replacement levels) and that it's not scarcity of resources, but rather it is greed in distributing those resources and outrageous standards of living that hinders us in our efforts to stop global hunger, etc. 

Regarding Birth Control...

Informed Consent?
http://tami.vox.com/library/post/informed-consent.html
This is something I wrote. It contains a lot of the same links as below.

A Longer Condensation of Does The Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions?
http://www.epm.org/artman2/publish/prolife_birth_control_pill/A_Longer_Condensation_of_Does_The_Birth_Control_Pill_Cause_Abortions.shtml

Contra-Contraception
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07contraception.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&oref=slogin

When Does Pregnancy Begin?: A Federal Appeals Court Decision Implicates a New Abortion Question
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/colb/20071015.html

Informed consent and the redefining of conception: a decision ill-conceived?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9848690

Contraceptive Info
http://contracept.org/
This is a great resource that has the best information I've found as far as how different methods work and the actual effectiveness (in preventing pregnancy) of various methods (hormonal, barrier, natural family planning).

Thoughts on Abortion, Birth Control, Family Planning, Family Size...

Thoughts on contraception and the quiverfull movement
http://humblemusings.com/archives/2008/03/04/thoughts-on-contraception-and-the-quiverfull-movement/

On Children as a Blessing Revisited
http://seekingtoglorify.blogspot.com/2009/02/on-children-as-blessing-revisited.html

How I became pro-life
http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/01/how-i-became-pro-life.html

Blessings, But…
http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/category/birth-control/

It's all about the money (and greed, and selfishness...)
http://ccostello.blogspot.com/2008/09/its-all-about-money-and-greed-and.html

...other stuff to think about and research how it relates to birth control, family planning, abortion, etc. are:
(sorry I don't readily have links for these)
- Sex Out of Marriage
- Infertility Treatments (IVF, etc.)
- Sterilization
- Cloning
- Stem Cell Research

Thanks for taking on this topic! Best wishes in your research.

Tami

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If any of you know if any good links or thoughts to add to this, please post them in the comments!