Thursday, February 25, 2010

Video Lunch: Protesting Birth Control



From RH Reality Check: The religious right in Central Wisconsin pickets a family planning clinic with the intention of having the clinic closed and all birth control made illegal.
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Anonymous said...

My parents (in fact, the rest of my family) subscribe to these beliefs. And this is why it wasn't until I was 25, living on my own and paying for my own health insurance before I was able to get adequate treatment for endometriosis. I wasn't dating anyone when I went on birth control and didn't care one way or the other about it - yet my family still called me a slut for it. The family believed that I should only have surgery before trying to conceive a child and that "pain is the price you pay for being a woman." Turns out that the medical community uses oral birth control to treat endometriosis and dysmenhorrea (sp?). And that for many women it works.

The side effects many people mention, in relation to oral birth control, are the ones found in the fold-out inserts. They happen in less than 1% of cases and are far less severe than the symptoms of endometriosis or pregnancy or giving birth. These same people who say they "don't want to put THAT in my body" are the same ones that demand 100% medical intervention to keep their 100 year old grandparents alive (I'll spare you the description of what happens when you do CPR on an elderly person). Their motives are not based on any sort of reality. They don't care one bit for the women who would be negatively affected by this - they only want to be "right." The extreme arrogance of them is astounding.

Oral birth control is the only thing that helps me be a functioning member of society, instead of taking disability for 50% of every month. I've been on it for years. The only side effect I've experienced is that I can hold down a job and live a normal life.

If these protesters would like to experience my life before birth control I will gladly hit them with a baseball bat in the abdomen for two weeks straight, every month. All the while I'll tell them that "pain is normal", "suck it up", "it's can't be that bad", and "God intends for you to live this way."

February 25, 2010 2:51 PM

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