Source: Gazeta Wyborcza
A time ago we informed you about an idea to suitably label contraceptive agents raised by some LPR, RLN and PiS deputies. This rubbish was so laughed over that the originators of this idea withdrawn from this idea silently and ashamed. Unfortunately, the fight with contraception means different than “natural” ones (calendar-based and thermal) returns. Moreover, this time it is backed up by the Ministry of Health, which is especially concerning for the writer as a future doctor. It is not funny anymore when the minister of health Zbigniew Religa, who after all was able to admit straight in the interviews that he has received instructions “from above” concerning whom to put up on high seats in National Health Fund now violates the doctor’s oath by approving the information campaign in currently proposed form. It is a great unreliability for a doctor to inform the patient only of selected methods of treatment, not even selected by himself, but by the Church (it is a strange coincidence that natural contraception is the only one that this institution allows, isn’t it?). Its error ratio amounts for as much as 20% and this is still the average value, as for the 16, 17 and 18 year-old girls with far less stable cycle and endocrine system the value of the ineffectiveness ratio makes natural contraception a lottery. We actually wonder, what the originators of the programme have prepared for the occasion of questions about the effectiveness of “natural methods” and its comparsion to others…
It’s hard to say whether this is still ignorance or deliberate misinformation already. After all, when multiplying the number of people using this particular contraception method by its UER one can obtain results that may cause a flash of insight for those worried about Poland’s current negative population growth. So it looks like we should after all be happy that despite Mrs. Ania’s designs the Ministry admits that people can also do it before the wedding…
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