Leah Mayfield was an outgoing college woman studying to be a nurse with a lot going for her. But six months after taking the birth control pill Yaz, she was dead from a blood clot.

“She was all about laughing and having fun,” her mother, Traci Mayfield told News Channel 5, of Nashville, TN, of her 20-old-daughter. Leah was on the dean’s list and was a leader in her sorority. “We were more than mother/daughter, we were best friends,” her mother said. Read the rest of this entry »

Don't want breast cancer? It helps to stay away from the pill and from abortion.

Oral contraception has been closely linked to a certain deadly type of breast cancer, a leading cancer journal stated recently, and the results may prove to challenge the breast cancer research community.

A study concerning the deadly “triple negative” breast cancer, involving  more than 1500 women aged 20 – 45, found a “distinct etiology,” or cause and effect, for women who used oral contraception for longer than a year, and an even stronger correlation for women who began using it before the age of 18. Read the rest of this entry »