Comments on: Highlight of My Day

By: Mortality

Mortality — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:34:02 +0000

Thealogian, birth control isn’t over the counter cos there are some health risks with it and for some women in some situations those risks aren’t worth it. But it should be easy to get a prescription for it anyway!

One thing I love with Sweden: it took me a whole five minutes to get a prescription for the pill. And those five minutes were spent discussing what kind of birth control would be best for me at that point. And then the birth control for a year costs 280 SEK but I payed 60SEK (~10USD) cos I’m younger than 23 :)

By: Holly

Holly — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:45:24 +0000

That is absolutely hilarious! I would have also been laughing my ass off.

By: Kristen from MA

Kristen from MA — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:39:45 +0000

Of course the subtext of the sign ‘Birth control controls you’ is ‘That’s OUR job!’

By: Thealogian

Thealogian — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:28:41 +0000

My sister’s married friend was recently denied her birth control by a Catholic doctor (her previous Dr. retired). My sister thought that denying birth-control to a married woman simply must be illegal, when I told her it was actually a protected right of Dr.’s to put their unscientific religious beliefs ahead of their patient’s health, she was shocked. I think that many “regular” folks (even strong Feminists like my sister and her friend, who don’t participate in much Feminist action/media, are floored when they learn about the anti-abortion/anti-woman establishment of the far right). Luckily S is middle-class and can go to another Dr. and pay OUT OF POCKET for a second pap (of course, her insurance only pays for one per year and the Catholic Dr. pretty much stole money from her by performing a pap that didn’t prove her worthiness for birth-control…why isn’t the pill over the counter already?). Its all bullshit, but she can manage, but of course, she shouldn’t have to. I’m glad that you saw that sign and this “the pill kills” bullshit is becoming a bigger part of the anti-choice/anti-woman crusade because the vast majority of women use birth-control and showing the true cards of the anti’s can only help to reaffirm that choice, even Roe, is really about the right to self-determination of one’s body, not about the baybezzzz.

By: SunlessNick

SunlessNick — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:10:15 +0000

I had to drink a sip of water to take my pill and I wasn’t even thirsty. It may not sound like much, but think about it; after 7 years, it has to have added up, and I’ve probably had to pee, like, an extra two times.

*Strangeled gasp of horror*

By: Lemur

Lemur — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:43:58 +0000

Yep, totally unacceptable control-pillz! That’s why I’m a lesbian. Why can’t all women do that? That’s a good alternative, right? No BC needed!
…But I think the stupid here *almost* kills the funny.

By: brenna

brenna — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:45:49 +0000

Yes, it does. That’s why I got an IUD instead.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:34:08 +0000

And I forgot to add that a lot of these people just don’t like Planned Parenthood because PP has always supported the lifestyles that Americans want to lead, not the lifestyles this minority Believes we should lead based on their own book of fairy tales and mythology.

Any organization or Person, for that matter, who has so thoroughly supported the sexual revolution and the individual sex lives of ALL Americans no matter what those lives are like generally earns the ire and scorn of these people.

And of course the fact that PP has ALWAYS stood for Women’s liberation is a large part of it too. Some of these people claim to want to see the day when Women are reduced in power and choices even though they haven’t given serious thought as to what that society would look like and how disastorous it would be for Actual Born Children.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:28:53 +0000

It’s also that they so broadly define “abortion” in their own little minds that the protesters we had considered the ordinary birth control pill to be a form of abortion and thus, they were there trying to “educate” our patients that birth control=abortion! We had numerous patients over the years come in and ask us if the protesters were lost because all of their signage was about abortion.

There’s also a sense of martyrdom about them. Obviously they are not going to die standing out in front of a clinic (which is more than I can say for our doctors, nurses, and volunteers Inside the clinic). BUT they want to feel that they are really sacrificing something for their faith and beliefs. It’s for their ego, it has nothing to do with reaching anyone but themselves. In my observation, at any rate.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:17:41 +0000

Yes, it controls me: it controls my baby-making. That’s why I take it, silly!