by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer (May 13, 2008) In addition to marking the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, American Catholics will also mark another significant milestone in the creation of the culture of death - the 43rd anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision that established the so-called “Constitutional right to privacy.” Major pro-life organizations across America will be launching “Protest the Pill Day: The Pill Kills Babies” on June 7 to mark the anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut which was decided in 1965. This case established that a “right to privacy” exists in the bedroom and invalidated legal bans on the use of birth control pills for married couples. It also set the legal precedent for the claim that the U.S. Constitution grants women the right to privacy in matters of sexual practice. Not surprisingly, Planned Parenthood, one of the nation’s largest suppliers of birth control pills, was behind the case. According to ThePillKills.com, which was created by the American Life League to mark the June 7 event, the plaintiff in the case was Estelle Griswold, then executive director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut. Griswold had opened a birth control clinic along with Dr. C. Lee Buxton, and both were arrested and fined for selling the pill. One of the reasons Griswold and Dr. C. Lee Buxton opened the clinic was to challenge an existing state law prohibiting the use of contraceptives. After their arrest, they sued, then pursued the case all the way to the Supreme Court where they eventually won. The pill is now used by more than 10 million women in the United States with four million of these users under the age of 25. Although touted as a harmless way to prevent conception, typical package inserts contain a long list of possible side-effects and health hazards associated with the continued use of hormonal contraceptives. Perhaps even more alarming is the linguistic gymnastics used by major pill distributors to hide the abortifacient qualities of the pill. For instance, the primary action of early high-dose birth control pills was to suppress ovulation but they were removed from the market because of dangerous side affects. Today’s pills have three modes of action: to suppress ovulation, to thicken cervical mucus to inhibit the movement of sperm, and to alter the lining of the uterus to prevent implantation of a fertilized egg. According to scientists at the National Institutes of Health, today’s new “mini” pill only suppresses ovulation up to 50 percent of the time, which means the pills other two modes of action must come into play in order to prevent conception, one of which results in spontaneous abortion. Although these facts can be found in any standard reference book, such as the Physician’s Desk Reference, most women are horrified when they learn that the pill can cause abortions. Therefore,  the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists redefined conception to mean implantation rather than the joining of sperm and egg. This is how birth control pill manufactures and distributors have been able to promote the pill as strictly “contraceptive,” despite its abortifacient qualities. “Planned Parenthood and other organizations cover up the reality that the birth control pill can, in fact, kill a preborn baby,” says ThePillKills.com. “Planned Parenthood brainwashes young girls by telling them that the pill merely prevents pregnancy, when the fact is that the pill can act after fertilization, which is when pregnancy begins, and kill the preborn baby.” They certainly the motive to do so. One-third of Planned Parenthood’s clinic income comes from selling birth control. “Obviously, they make big money by lying to women,” says ThePillKills.com This clever deception amounts to a staggering number of lost lives when abortions caused by birth control pills are factored into national abortion numbers. According to ThePillKills.com, a biostatistician and an environmental epidemiologist, both at the University of Pittsburgh, along with an Ohio State University technical consultant and Bogomir M. Kuhar, a pharmacist, computed the following estimates for chemical abortions in the United States from 1973 to 2003: They surmise that approximately 6,605,000 to 11,725,000 chemical abortions occurred every year in the United States during the last 30 years, amounting to 196,325,000 to 324,325,000 lives lost during the same 30 year period. This figure is equivalent to the entire population of the United States. “Everyone should know the deadly consequences of the pill and similar contraceptive products- they cause chemical abortions,” says ThePillKills.com “Therefore, American Life League, along with Pro-Life Wisconsin and Pharmacists for Life International Associate groups, is calling all pro-lifers across the country to speak out on Protest the Pill Day '08: The Pill Kills Babies, scheduled for the Griswold anniversary of Saturday, June 7. We encourage you to gather with your friends for peaceful protests in front of facilities that distribute birth control products.” © All Rights Reserved, Living His Life Abundantly/Women of Grace. http://www.womenofgrace.com Uncover the truth about contraception. See “The Truth About Contraception”  a collection of television and radio shows on the subject.