Dear friend,
Just a few weeks back, we shared the tragic story of 16-year-old Layla Khan, who died of a blood clot to her brain just weeks after starting hormonal birth control for severe period pain. Our first article this week is another birth control horror story, this time of a 22-year-old Australian woman whose birth control implant (which is no longer even sold in the U.S. or the UK) migrated from her arm to *gulp* her lung. If that sounds seriously dangerous, that’s because it is.
Our second article profiles yet another nightmarish health scare brought to you by the Pill. In January of 2023, a 30-year-old Californian woman learned that her “stomach problems” were actually liver tumors caused by, you guessed it, her birth control. Read why that woman believes “birth control will be our generation’s smoking,” and “we’re gonna look back in 10, 20, 30 years and nobody’s going to be taking it anymore, because it’s bad for us.”
Action call: Though we live a 22-hour drive apart, a longtime family friend of my husband’s and I are connected on Facebook. Several weeks back, she messaged me to say that she really appreciated Natural Womanhood content I’d reposted on the dangers of IUDs, especially for teens. Many of her 16-year-old daughter’s volleyball teammates were getting IUDs inserted to manage “period problems”, but, in part because of our content, this mom knew better. She asked for more resources, and I shared several plus the link to our sister website IUDAlert. Who do you know that would benefit from our IUD content?
Take care,
Anne Marie
Anne Marie Williams
Assistant Editor
Natural Womanhood
| Routine birth control implant insertion goes horribly wrong, requires major surgeryCloe Westerway had previously used Implanon for contraception. Her second time around, though, she suffered birth control implant migration. Click here to read the full article. |
 Liver tumors are the birth control side effect you’ve probably never heard of Hormonal birth control, especially oral contraceptives, can cause liver tumors (also known as hepatic adenomas). One California woman is on a mission to ensure other women receive the side effects education she never did. Click here to read the full article. |