Join American Life League and protest the pill Saturday, June 5 outside of your local pharmacy, Planned Parenthood facility, doctor’s office or at a busy intersection.
Help get the word out: The Pill Kills!
We continue to hear about the dangerous effects the birth control pill has on our environment. Study after study has shown how the chemicals from the pill discharge into our waterways and wreak havoc on the fish.
A five-year study done by the Environment Agency in the United Kingdom suggests that half of the male fish in lowland English rivers are “developing female characteristics because of pollution.” As the BBC reported, “Scientists blame the pollution on a ’potent’ form of oestrogen found in urine from women using the contraceptive pill, which may be flushed through sewage works and into rivers.”i In 2002, the United Kingdom declared hormonal birth control a type of pollution.ii
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i“River ’pollution’ sparks fertility fears,” BBC News, March 17, 2002, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1877162.stm
ii“Pollution: An Introduction,” Directgov.com.uk, http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Environmentandgreenerliving/Thewiderenvironment/Pollution/DG_064397
