FRONT ROYAL, Va. (WordNews.org) July 13, 2012  — Human Life International has launched a campaign against the multi-billion dollar push to spread hormonal birth control in developing world.

HLI, the world’s largest pro-life organization, said the effort to spread hormonal birth control is dangerous to women in developing countries because it includes group 1 carcinogens, the same grouping that includes cigarettes and asbestos.

“Hormonal birth control doesn’t empower women, it poisons them,” said Elisa Sumanski, a spokeswoman with HLI.

The “No Controversy?” campaign comes on the heels of a $4.6 billion pledge led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the British government to spread birth control in the developing nations. The Gates Foundation is pledging $1 billion.

Gates’ campaign is titled “No Controversy,” without the question mark.

HLI said its two-part campaign is intended to raise awareness of the harmful effects of hormonal birth control on women’s health, and what it called the extremely controversial history of previous eugenic and population control efforts, including the partners Ms. Gates has chosen to head up her birth control campaign.

“Since women in the developing world are the ones most directly and negatively affected by the Gates Foundation and British government’s campaign, we felt that their voices should lead the challenge,” Sumanski said. “When you consider the facts on www.FactsForMelindaGates.com, it becomes difficult to argue that spreading huge amounts of hormonal birth control in the developing world is good for women’s health, as Melinda Gates claims.”

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