Blinders: The Destructive, Downstream Impact of Contraception, Abortion, and IVF

by Thomas W. Hilgers

Over the last 50 or 60 years, there has appeared a directional shift in the medical and social culture of the United States. We see it in the news programs every night, sometimes several times a night. Often there are generic reasons given for these changes such as “poverty and hopelessness.” But could there be other reasons? Could the medical profession be playing an important role in the violence and destructiveness of this cultural shift? Has there been any critical self-examination by the medical profession which usually demands evidence-based conclusions to be assessed? Or are there some questions that are too difficult for individuals to investigate, not because it’s impossible to investigate them, but because it can be painful and because the attitudes of a collective group of colleagues may be preventing these questions from being asked. It is as if we have BLINDERS on!

This book makes an attempt to address some new questions that have rarely been asked but should be. This book, with a full-color interior, takes an objective look at data that has been produced by mostly government-based statistical gathering systems, some published in peer-reviewed medical journals and even some in news reports.

146 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 18, 2019

About the author

Thomas W. Hilgers, MD, is the founder and director of the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction (located in Omaha, Nebraska and home of its National Center for Women’s Health), where he is also the senior medical consultant in obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive medicine and surgery. Dr. Hilgers is a clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Creighton University School of Medicine. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (1976) and the American Board of Laser Surgery (1988) and is a member of the prestigious Society of Reproductive Surgeons. Dr. Hilgers has served on the Pontifical Council for the Family and is an active member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. He has written over 200 professional books, book chapters and research articles (mostly in the areas of reproductive medicine and surgery) and he has produced videotapes, poster sessions and audio recordings. Since the time of his first research in the natural regulation of human fertility in 1968 as a senior medical student, he co-developed the Creighton Model FertilityCareTM System, along with K. Diane Daly, RN, CFCE; Susan K. Hilgers, BA, CFCE; and Ann M. Prebil, RN, BSN, CFCE. Dr. Hilgers ongoing research on the Creighton Model System enabled him to develop the new women’s health science of NaProTechnology.

Reviews

[Sara Christians · Rating 4 out of 5]

While there is valuable information and charts in this book, it does not read particularly smoothly. As Dr. Hilgers is a practicing physician and not a writer, that can be forgiven. Despite the clunky prose, this short booklet is a valuable resource linking many health problems we are dealing with today to the sexual revolution.