COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 8, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The birth control pill can cause seizures in epileptics, according to a new study.
A Texas A&M University study found that ethinyl estradiol (EE), the key component of oral contraceptives, increases seizures for women with epilepsy. The study was published in the medical journal Epilepsy Research.
“We suspected for some time that hormonal birth control increases seizure activity in women with epilepsy, but now we know what part of the contraceptive is problematic,” Dr. Samba Reddy, professor of neuroscience and experimental therapeutics at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, explained.
This finding confirms multiple studies that investigated a 450% increase in reported seizures among epileptics on hormonal birth control.
The Texas research, done on animals, found that not only were seizures more frequent, but they also were more often uncontrolled seizures, which are more damaging.
The Epilepsy Research website explains, “Uncontrolled seizures originate deeper in the brain and can have a negative impact on neural regions such as the hippocampus, which plays a role in regulating memory and spatial orientation.”
The Texas researchers recommend that women with epilepsy avoid birth control pills.
“Add the increased risk of seizures for epileptic women to the growing list of dangers posed by the pill, which, it is important to note, cures no disease but is still considered 'essential preventive medicine' under Obamacare,” Stephen Phelan, director of mission communications for Human Life International, told LifeSiteNews. “All of this for a pill that is aggressively sold to girls and young women as a way to make them 'safe,' as they are encouraged to engage in risky sexual behavior.”
Phelan concluded, “Again and again we see the fundamental and commonsense wisdom of holding up faithful, life-giving, lifelong marriage as the way to healthy and fulfilling sexuality and relationships for both men and women.”
