Comments | laura_holt_pi: Out of Character

laura_holt_pi

Out of Character

Aug 23, 2008 22:33

I wasn't going to get involved, but I hate to see the kind of misogynistic madness that some women are coming out with. Is it some special fun-day for feminists? They all seem to be even stranger than usual today. A lot of people who usually seem quite sane are getting their knickers in a twist about abortion. Apparently, some evil new law ( Read more... )

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meganbmoore August 23 2008, 22:18:45 UTC

Actually, I believe that when you choose to have sex, you are choosing to accept the consequences of your action, and that includes pregnancy, and that you should live up to the responsibility created by that action.

But I also believe that when you enter a field (and, conveniently enough, OBGYN is one of the highest paying medical fields here) you enter choosing to accept the responsibilities of that field, even if you disagree with them.

And the act doesn't apply to just abortions. If it did, I probably wouldn't worry about it myself. But it applies to any sterilization or preventive measurements. So, a couple who has three children can't decide not to have more, knowing that they can't afford to raise more than three children, and a woman whose period and ovulation cycle make her physically ill can't get medications to prevent that, because those medications also serve as birth control.

laura_holt_pi August 24 2008, 08:06:53 UTC

I don't know of any person who believes it is wrong to sterilise a woman who wants the procedure, but I would prefer a doctor not to give women those medications, because the Pill, for example, has been implicated in the sudden deaths of a lot of women in their thirties and some doctors hand them out like sweets ( ... )

agreeing on a lot of points, but with a few nits... sidewinder August 24 2008, 14:22:27 UTC

the Pill, for example, has been implicated in the sudden deaths of a lot of women in their thirties and some doctors hand them out like sweets.I totally agree that there are a lot of problems with the Pill (and hormonal treatments in general) which modern medicine - and modern women - choose to ignore. It's given out as a "quick fix" which, as you say, masks the symptoms without really treating the causes. As someone who's been working the last few months to fix my own hormonal imbalances naturally, I've done a lot of research on this and just don't understand how or why the Pill has often been prescribed for things like, for an example, ovarian cysts, when evidence points to them actually CAUSING cysts, or making cysts bigger in the long run even if they short term make them smaller. And that's just one example. Now it's being marketed as a way to allow women to avoid the "nastiness" of a monthly period, which I just find wholly bizarre and potentially a minefield of potential complications that just don't make sense to me ( ... )

Re: agreeing on a lot of points, but with a few nits... laura_holt_pi August 24 2008, 14:48:51 UTC

I know abortion is not the only cause of endometriosis, but it does cause it often enough to make it clear that abortion can be a very bad thing for women ( ... )