Women are studpid

[asterroc]

When it comes to rational feminist rants (i.e., women's rights, not feminazi), naamah_darling does the best job I've seen yet. Case in point.

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[weirdlilfaechld.livejournal.com]

So here's something that doesn't seem to have been considered yet (with a large amount of TMI): I have tried a multitude of pills, shots, therapy, and solutions to keep dead tissue in my ovaries from building up and bursting rather then being simply flushed out like it should be, and the only thing that works to prevent excruciating pain, nausea, and a high possibility of infection that can be solved only by a radical hysterectomy and intravenous antibiotics is the simple birth control pill. (Holy run-on sentence batman!) So I can avoid that by taking "the pill" now while still living with my parents, but if I want some independence that right now can be achieved only through SSDI and medicare I could be legally denied treatment despite not being able to get pregnant anyway simply because it is intended as a contraceptive? Am I reading that correctly?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Yep. And you can also be denied the Pill or Depo-Provera shots if you're on Accutane since it causes such horrible birth defects that anyone on it is required to use two forms of birth control.

FWIW this HHS thing (if legit, current sources are all talking about a "leaked" document and not anything that HHS is actually coming out and saying) technically is not a law or anything, it's just suggested guidelines for when pharmacists and doctors are "allowed" to deny you medication based upon their "conscience." So it's not technically related to medicare. But what's worse, is it's tangentially related to ALL pharmacies, so if adopted it could affect you NOW, not just if you were on medicare.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Ooof, that so makes my head hurt. I hope this never comes to Canada.