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May. 15th, 2005 09:09 amThis one has been making the rounds - the Feministe article on the effects of the Conscience Clause. The woman whose progressive hospital was bought out by a Catholic one, so she couldn't have the sterilization she wanted... nor an abortion now that she's pregnant again. The rape victim who called 15 pharmacies for Plan B, none of which had it. (Oh, some were concerned and willing to order it... but none would have it in time to take within the necessary period.) The teenaged virgin who can't get birth control to control her terrible periods because the guy running the only pharmacy in town passes judgement on her, circumstances unknown. “I mean I don’t hand out pills so young girls can have sex,” the pharmacist told her. “If you have a husband, which I doubt, bring him in with you next time and you can have pills.”
It's not a woman's place to control the output of her own body, y'know. We need a man to to give his permission to another man to take the drugs that affect only us.
This one hit this morning - Ohio Anti-Adult Bill Goes Too Far. Just a little too far... like defining sexual activity so broadly and so vaguely that tampon use becomes obscene. (And y'all thought Landover Baptist's rant about "Satan's Cotton Fingers" was a parody!)
To drop into personal anecdotes, that "takes too long to get Plan B" was also my personal experience. From prescription to pills in hand was about 4 days. In my case, it was a radical doctor handing out 'scrips at the March for Women's Lives and a surprisingly bashful but concerned pharmacist ("Uh, we don't have it, we'll have to order it... Uh, do you... um, need...?") I was getting it to make a point and Just In Case, but had I been in need, I would have been hosed.
It's not a woman's place to control the output of her own body, y'know. We need a man to to give his permission to another man to take the drugs that affect only us.
This one hit this morning - Ohio Anti-Adult Bill Goes Too Far. Just a little too far... like defining sexual activity so broadly and so vaguely that tampon use becomes obscene. (And y'all thought Landover Baptist's rant about "Satan's Cotton Fingers" was a parody!)
To drop into personal anecdotes, that "takes too long to get Plan B" was also my personal experience. From prescription to pills in hand was about 4 days. In my case, it was a radical doctor handing out 'scrips at the March for Women's Lives and a surprisingly bashful but concerned pharmacist ("Uh, we don't have it, we'll have to order it... Uh, do you... um, need...?") I was getting it to make a point and Just In Case, but had I been in need, I would have been hosed.
