Kara Britt and Roger Short, doctors from Australia, after conducting research, told the Catholic Church that they should allow nuns to take birth control pills, which would reduce the risk of cancer.
Childless women, including nuns, fall into the category of those with a higher risk of ovarian, uterine and breast cancer than women who have given birth to children.
Birth control pills have been found to reduce the risk of ovarian and uterine cancer, Live Science reports.
"The Catholic Church prohibits all types of contraception, as Pope Paul VI wrote in the document Humanae Vitae in 1968," the scientists wrote in a commentary published in the Lancet, adding that the document also states that the church does not prohibit drugs that have a contraceptive effect. if they are necessary for the treatment of the disease.
Based on this, Australian doctors believe that the Catholic Church should allow the free use of birth control pills for its 95.000 nuns.
They explained that women who have not given birth have more menstrual cycles than those who have given birth and that this increases the risk of cancer. Giving birth at a younger age, having more children and breastfeeding reduces the risk of cancer. Women who take birth control pills are 12 percent less likely to die from cancer.
The risk of developing endometrial and ovarian cancer drops by about 50 to 60 percent in women who use the pill. There is no evidence that birth control pills reduce the risk of breast cancer.
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