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Should one be affected by birth control pills if they never chose to use them? What if someone didn't even know what they were-they were just a creature trying to live, produce, and give birth-the way they were made to? Would you like it if birth control started changing you, impacting your sexuality, and polluting your environment?!

Well, the fact is, humans are not the only species being affected by birth control. Certainly, humans can choose to take pills and give themselves treatment so as to prevent the birth of their own kind, but animals can't. I know-that comes as quite a surprise, but it's true. The "choice" of an animal, therefore, is proscribed by their instinct. I am sure we wouldn't appreciate it if animals went on birth control.

What if endangered species like the polar bear, caribou, or the blue whale decided they had other plans and reproducing their own kind was certainly not one of them. However, they wanted to keep having intercourse-so, they started taking birth control. Whoa, wait a second-they can't do that!

The fact is that animals don't have such desires. The more gruesome fact is that birth control is taking away the ability of animals to live in a healthy environment where they can at least, regardless of humans, do what they were made to do-when they want, how they want, for the future propagation of their kind. I can't help but laugh to think that many of the same people who are pushing to save these beautiful creatures are condoning the practice of something quite unnatural that is harming their very existence! It's birth control.

Our waters are being polluted daily by the estrogen many modern women use in their consumption of birth control pills. What happens a little later? Well, what goes in generally comes out. Yep, 12 million doses of this substance flow into our sewage systems. The Scientific American reports that, "The potent synthetic estrogens excreted by women taking hormone replacement therapy or birth control pills are not completely broken down in the sewage treatment process and are discharged into waterways."

Scientists testing the gender of fish have been unable to identify them as male or female in cases where the cause seems to be the effect of birth control on our waters. "Increased estrogenic active substances in the water are changing males so that they are indistinguishable from females. There are eggs in male gonads as well as males are secreting a yolk sac protein. Males aren't supposed to be making egg stuff."

Scientific American recently shared the results of their studies concluding that, "many streams, rivers and lakes already bear warning signs that the fish caught within them may also be carrying enough chemicals that mimic the female hormone estrogen to cause breast cancer cells to grow", reports Scientific American.

In short, we need to become more aware of what we are putting into ourselves and our environment. Further, I don't think our environment should have to suffer from those who use birth control; whether one belongs to the human, animal, or plant kingdom, if they did not have the choice to incorporate birth control as part of their healthy lifestyle, then it should not affect them. Perhaps we should embrace life and our environment by not using a substance that is killing it.