How Safe Is The Pill?

Studies in recent years have found that birth control pill use increases risk of cervical cancer, increases risk of breast cancer in pre-menopausal women, increases risk of blood clots and stroke, lowers bone density causing thinner bones and greater risk of osteoporosis later in life, impairs muscle gains in women, interferes with a protein that keeps testosterone unavailable leading to long term sexual dysfunction including decreased desire and arousal, increases artery plaque build-up that raises risk of heart disease. To read more, http://www.livescience.com/health/090507-sos-pill.html and http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/30/How-Safe-is-the-Pill.aspx