10/26/2005
The real truth on fertility Robert Colquhoun 26/10/05
In Britain we live in a culture saturated by sex. Advertising uses sex appeal to sell all sorts of products, television programs are more and more interested in sex and the internet is overloaded with pornography. Media has embraced sexual images because it knows that it is more financially rewarding. However, there is another side to the story. Infertility is the next biggest issue to hit Britain. One expert recently stated that in 10 years 1 in 3 couples will have serious difficulty conceiving. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology authority (HFEA) currently believes that 1 in 5 women have serious fertility issues.
Yet few people have seen the connection between sex and infertility in true perspective. This has been because an enormous pharmaceutical industry has developed offering miracle drugs and with large interests, abortion groups and clinics have a flawed understanding of fertility and politicians have been busy compiling league tables and quotas to notice the correlation.
Promiscuity increases infertility
As contraception and abortion are widely used in the country, an interesting development has occurred. Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have increased relentlessly in the last few years, many with the side effects of infertility. During 2000, chlamydia rose by 30% alone in Britain. Both chlamydia and gonorrhoea cause infertility and are not easy to detect with very few symptoms. Many carriers are simply unaware that they have the disease. Other STDs can cause pelvic inflammatory disease and ectopic pregnancies. The increase in the number of sexual partners has meant that promiscuity has increased the difficulty of conceiving a child for many couples. Given the secrecy and symptom less nature of some STDs, it is evident that Britain is awaiting a very serious infertility crisis in the next 10-30 years. The STDs have the potential to grow exponentially in the next few years as the diseases naturally spread, because when you have sex with somebody, you also can inherit all the sexual diseases of all the people of whom that person has slept with.
Contraception can damage your fertility
Contrary to popular opinion, some forms of contraception are actually damaging towards your women’s fertility. The pill has been the subject of very few in depth medical studies. Due to the weight of the pharmaceutical industry behind it, the medical consequences of the pill have never firmly been established. There is considerable evidence to show that there is a clear link between breast cancer and the pill, whilst the effects of taking the pill also age the womb. It is undeniable that the pill is bad for your health. Messing around with drugs and hormones can never be naturally good for your body, and long term use of the pill has been reported to especially damage women’s fertility. Emergency IUD coils also can seriously damage your fertility. For injected contraceptives, fertility can take many months to return and little evidence is available on their true effect on fertility. More medical research needs to take place, but making your body infertile for long periods of time with drugs will affect hormonal rhythms and subsequently fertility.
IVF is unsafe and immoral
The infertility industry is currently booming in the UK. Many doctors are appealing to couples desperate for children to not only part with thousands of pounds, but also to undergo stressful and unnatural medical procedures to have their own baby. IVF is beginning to show its true colours with every medical statistic that is released on the matter. IVF pregnancies are far more likely to end in ectopic pregnancies, and there are health complications for the children. IVF is immoral because it divides up the unitative and procreative aspects of sex by conceiving embryos in a laboratory rather that in a natural way. Many embryos are consequently destroyed in this method that have some recognised status in international law. The success rate for artificial procreation is still very low. Despite this the multimillion pound industry and the desperation of couples to conceive manage to ignore these facts. Overall IVF is expensive, over stressful and immoral. Many forms of Natural family planning have shown to be effective and 100% natural, and very cheap in contrast to IVF. Adoption is also often forgotten in this complicated equation of supply and demand.
Age at which it is difficult to have children is not fully realised
Many people in British society seem deluded as to the real age at which women begin to have difficulty conceiving and the menopause comes to an end. Although women’s employment has brought many wonderful opportunities for women, increased pressure is put on many women to carry on working and to delay having children until later in life. Beyond 35 some women begin to have problems conceiving. Many newspaper articles have foretold of miracle babies at 50, and this has helped to increase the myth. If more women were more aware about infertility problems and some difficulties of conceiving beyond 35, it is unlikely that pregnancy would be delayed as much. Many are repulsed by the idea of children because they are a burden on time and money, but the vast majority of new parents discover children to be a joy.
Only way to solve huge number of unwanted teenage pregnancies in Britain is to promote a culture of abstinence within schools.
The message of safe sex promoted today is a lie to young people. The condom policy of “Be safe, use a condom” has done nothing but increase unwanted teenage pregnancies in Britain. The fact that condoms can be up to 20% ineffective, and totally ineffective with regards to preventing some STDs is ruthlessly ignored. Recently the government admitted they were virtually powerless in solving this problem, however, they were wrong and their policies have been flawed. Evidence from America shows that abstinence programs have been far more successful at reducing unwanted teenage pregnancies. However, young people cannot be scared into not having sex. A message that true love waits and authentic relationships should be chaste has to be promoted that is positive and encouraging to young people. Chastity and celibacy are hopelessly out of fashion, but a culture can be created whereby sex is not overemphasised and that sex is only authentic within the confines of marriage. Sex is wonderful and a good within the context of marriage, yet its dark side creates infertility, rape, pornography and paedophilia. The fact is that young people could learn to have safe sex if they were educated about the proper context of sex through moral education mixed in with sex education.
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