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Disgusting.
What the hell kind of country do we live in that a woman can't get a prescription for birth control within /100/ miles of her town? With dozens of hospitals and clinics available? Moreover, a prescription for a medication that she shouldn't even NEED a prescription for in the first damned place, because it's licensed for Over the Counter sale? Not to mention that crap about qualifying for some moralistic doctor's 'criteria' to prove that you're WORTHY enough to not have to spend 18 YEARS caring for a child because you dared to have out of marriage sex and your damned condom broke.
If people really, truly wanted to reduce the number of abortions, and the incidence of child abuse, in this country, they would back easily available and cheap birth control for everyone, EVERYONE, who wants it, no questions asked or expected.
I am steamed.
What the hell kind of country do we live in that a woman can't get a prescription for birth control within /100/ miles of her town? With dozens of hospitals and clinics available? Moreover, a prescription for a medication that she shouldn't even NEED a prescription for in the first damned place, because it's licensed for Over the Counter sale? Not to mention that crap about qualifying for some moralistic doctor's 'criteria' to prove that you're WORTHY enough to not have to spend 18 YEARS caring for a child because you dared to have out of marriage sex and your damned condom broke.
If people really, truly wanted to reduce the number of abortions, and the incidence of child abuse, in this country, they would back easily available and cheap birth control for everyone, EVERYONE, who wants it, no questions asked or expected.
I am steamed.
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Though, I have to add that if it had been me with 3 kids and no desire for a 4th, I would have had my tubes killed.
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It sounds like she's already had some sort of operation (cervical cancer, maybe?), and getting your tubes tied is a fairly major surgical procedure which doesn't always work, and when it doesn't work /completely/, then there's a heightened risk of tubal pregnancies, which can kill you dead. So I, at least, would be wary about having that done.
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Still. I'm ambivalent on the idea of having kids myself, but still wouldn't want to go under general anesthetic and have a major surgical procedure for it all...even if I could afford that procedure without insurance, which I can't.
Which is why I love on my birth control, as useless as it may currently be! *love!*
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*pets your pill*
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I have not a pill! I have the NuvaRing (http://www.nuvaring.com/Consumer/index.asp?guid={7D3C6809-E154-46F0-9EBE-4F7DD62EC5B9}&sid=1065997750), which is an insertable hormone BC method. It doesn't make me sick like the Pill did, and it doesn't require remembering to take a pill every day at the same time. Just three weeks in, one week out.
I love it good.
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Not-quite-apropos: http://www.machall.com/?strip_id=381
*snigger*
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I know I shouldn't. But I ...can't ...resist ...
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I would hate to discover what the folks supporting this scheme consider to be "justice."
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Honestly, it makes me scared of what's going to happen when I leave school, and can no longer use the University pharmacy to get my BC prescriptions. South Carolina is not noticibly more liberal than Ohio.
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Student: "The condom broke. Can I get the morning after pill?"
Nurse: "I'll have to get a prescription for it from the on-call doctor, if he'll do it." (This was several years before it was OTC, of course)
Student: "...'if he'll do it'? Why wouldn't he?"
Nurse [lowering her voice and glancing around]: "Catholic Doctors."
Student: "Oh."
So yes. If you had sex, at age 18 or 20, and tried to be safe (but failed), and went for help... the Catholic doctors might decide the prescription was "too risky" (many suffer from severe side effects, although some experience almost nothing abnormal) or just not moral, and choose not to prescribe it.
Scary. And no, SC really isn't notably more liberal than Ohio. Although sticking to larger cities is always safer than the truly remote country towns.
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...except that within six months, we'd find people having the exact opposite problem: doctors refusing the remove the implants because they don't think the person is 'moral' enough to be a parent. Because they're gay, or they're black, or they're an atheist, or they're a Baptist...
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...the people who are pulling this kind of stuff? It's not really about 'life', or children, or religion, or anything else. It's about them wanting to control the lives of people they don't approve of. You give them /any/ means to do that, and they'll ride it like a drunk cowboy on a mechanical bull.
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Dammit.
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I am opposed to abortion. I have no objections to emergency contraception. (I had to draw my line in the sand about where life began, same as everyone else did; implantation seemed like a good and solid point for me, and slightly better than conception for reasons I can't make clear. It's all about the gut here.)
This is... disturbing beyond belief.
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The latter smacks far, far too much of eugenics to me. The former becomes an unhappy and unpleasant gray area, but ultimately, I find I am still opposed to an abortion in that instance.