Jeanine Notter, New Hampshire Lawmaker, Says Birth Control Causes Prostate Cancer

Merrimack Patch:

"As a man, would it interest you to know that Dr. Bernstein just published an article that links the pill to prostate cancer?" Notter asked Rep. Andrew Manuse, R-Derry, who was testifying at the hearing.

"In the children that are born from these women?" Manuse asked.

Notter then offered to lend Manuse a copy of the study before telling him that she is against putting chemicals in her body and trying to explain her claim. The end of her explanation was that women take the pill and the chemical is in their body, but the end of her sentence about how it affects men is mostly unintelligible from the video.

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Comments

[jp1850]

03:16 PM on 03/03/2012

Kudos to Obama and his administration for making so many lunatics crawl out of the woodwork and therefore for giving sane people a wake up call.

[tracey fletcher]

04:52 PM on 02/18/2012

"I shouldn't have to pay for something I don't believe in" -- me either, starting with these "lawmakers" salaries.

[CharlieVer]

03:44 PM on 02/18/2012

Birth control causes aging. Women who took birth control were examined one year later, and every one of them grew older.

[tracey fletcher]

04:54 PM on 02/18/2012

Are you talking about birth control pill hormone amounts of the 60's or today?

Really irks me when men comment on birth control pills...

[CharlieVer]

04:56 PM on 02/18/2012

Tracy... I thought the joke was obvious.

When they're tested one year later. They've aged.
One year. They've aged.

Get it? I'm making fun of the people against birth control.

[Quaoar]

09:27 PM on 02/17/2012

Maybe she learned it from Torchwood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMN0SO3SHZ8
Never doing that again

[skinsqb17]

07:09 PM on 02/17/2012

lord have mercy

[Katie Mathers]

04:59 PM on 02/17/2012

There are many stupid things about this but...

If a woman is pregnant, why would she still be taking birth control? Unless it is being taken for a health reason, that chemical most likely wouldn't BE in a pregnant woman's body...

[Andrew Kurzweil]

04:43 PM on 02/17/2012

Thank God she's not a Dr. especially an OB/GYN!

[cadawa]

03:51 PM on 02/17/2012

Then I'd suggest that men don't take birth control pills and their prostates will be just fine.
Her generational link doesn't work either. In order to become pregnant, you have to stop taking the pill and the hormones in the pill can no longer be active.
This is the basest sort slight of hand by the .01% who are littering the landscape, our food, our water, our air and personal care products with known carcinogens and don't whose babies are harmed.
Because some of .01% are afraid not enough Caucasion babies are being born, they are trying to tell us on the thinnest of pretexts, the pill might be harmful.

[Don1Carter]

03:39 PM on 02/17/2012

I read a study that showed birth control pills cause men to get ovarian cysts.

[delaselva]

01:37 PM on 02/17/2012

The GOP: Replacing the scientific method with the tabloid method: Shock and awe! Using sensationalized made-up facts, photos, charts and interviews to support your claim!

What non-issue can they come up with next? Arguing about the personhood status of a Bigfoot zygote?

[sskepticall]

01:26 PM on 02/17/2012

The WACKADOODLE AWARD for Friday, February 17, 2012 goes to .....DRUM ROLL....

New Hampshire Lawmaker Jeanine Notter. .......clap, clap, clap

.......Standing ovation.

We cheer her yet feel so badly for the citizens who elected her. Maybe they will get it right the next time.

[Ipanemagirl]

01:10 PM on 02/17/2012

doesnt Foster Frees sound a bit demented? Hr has to laugh at his own half hearted "jokes' because none of them are funny!

[Ipanemagirl]

01:00 PM on 02/17/2012

that is the silliest comment ever made....w/ no scientific backing to support this but a bigotted mind.
next !

[love5pets]

11:05 AM on 02/17/2012

Ahhhh...shadup lady.

Just teach your daughters to put an aspirin between their legs and they'll be all set.

Another sick one crawls out of the nethers.

[enigma2]

11:41 AM on 02/17/2012

That's pretty funny, thanks for the laugh.

[love5pets]

11:48 AM on 02/17/2012

You're welcome. :-)

[den1953]

11:01 AM on 02/17/2012

Won't this dolt have any idea how many chemicals make up her composition in her body to keep her alive?