Hormonal contraceptives are widely used and considered safe, but my experience with them by way of many women in my life over the years is that they really mess with the emotional composition and in some cases psychological stability of women.
It seems, anecdotally, that it isn’t all women or maybe not even most women, but many women are adversely affected, and it is difficult to know what impact second hand hormones (from many environmental sources) may be having on the children developing in the synthetic hormone soup hat has become the environment in many industrialised economies.
Birth control pills may be an essential component of an economy that has devalued labor to the point of needing two wage slaves to support a family, but I’m not sure that the increase in wealth concentration efficiency justifies the social costs.
The xeno-estrogen Ethinylestradiol is used in birth control pills because it is more resistant to degradation by the liver than bio-identical hormones.
Birth control use one of a variety of Progestins, instead of bio-identical Progesterone USP, for the same reason.
