Bill Clinton's wife calls Bush's bluff on science, women's rights, and the morning-after pill. They believe-in science! Senator Patty Murray of Washington has joined Hillary Clinton in pushing for the morning-after pill. These days, Hillary Clinton has found herself a signature phrase. New York's junior senator has taken to describing Washington, D.C., as a kind of "evidence-free zone"-a mantra she uses to slam the Bush administration for putting politics above science. Plan B, the drug, better known as the morning-after pill, Isn't revolutionary. It's a booster dose of progesterone, the hormone in a standard birth-control regimen (that
science has labeled a cancer causing 'carcinogenic' just as dangerous as tobacco and asbestos).
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Birth Control Pills ranked as
Dangerous as Tobacco and Asbestos
Oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy drugs have been classified as carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The reclassification places birth control pills in the same classification as tobacco and asbestos. The latest research shows oral contraceptives cause cervical cancer, breast cancer and liver cancer.
Posted by Editor at July 30, 2005 07:44 PM
