Slow news day -

[kyburg]

I could complain. Nah.

There is just one thing though - if you're trying to convince me you know what you're talking about - please don't get all cutesy-poo and take liberties with your spelling, m'kay?

Arguably, contraception and everything surrounding it as a concept can be more than most people wish to take in with their daily paper. And in truth, nobody wants to discuss the fact that, well, most people have sex, but only some people are prepared to be parents. Or want to be. Only a fool would discuss sex and procreation separately, but for most people in today's economy, children are a luxury. Most can't afford them. Some women can't get pregnant - they wouldn't survive the process.

You'd insist someone get pregnant, stay pregnant and have the child, even if they didn't want it? (Let's assume it isn't rape or incest for a moment...okay. Go there. Ew. Said it was something you didn't want with your morning paper.)

(None of the material is news to me, BTW. OMG, teh have SIDE EFFECTS. OMG, teh R STOOPID.)

(I've never been a candidate for this class of contraception, and knew it. I've used barriers, foams and smarts. It works. Don't forget the smarts.)

It's not something I'd wish on anyone - to be an unwanted child. We don't have a good method of separating unwilling parents from children, even in extreme cases. I can't think of a better breeding ground for violence, hate and general misery. Really.

I just don't think I'm in the position to tell anyone they should or shouldn't - ask me, and I'll give you an opinion. And you know what I think of opinions.

What I think and say? That, and five bucks will get you a latte at Starbucks. Or lunch at the Indian place down the street. A used CD. Your choice.

But I'm not going to tell you what to do with it. And I'd like to keep it that way.

Comments

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

It's not something I'd wish on anyone - to be an unwanted child.

Agreed. Among my friends, both now and as I was growing up, there were a number of people who were unwanted children, and they knew it. It had an immense impact on their lives. To know, almost from the start, that your parents didn't want you to be born?! What a horrible feeling!

I was envied by some of my peers, because I knew I was wanted. So were my brother and sister. We were not only wanted, but carefully planned; my mother spaced our births carefully, and we are each separated from our closest-in-age sibling by almost exactly 2 years and 8 months. Mom told me once it took over two years for her and my father to conceive me, and they were really trying hard. I've grown up with the knowledge that I was wanted, from the word go, and that, too, has made a difference.

And it's one reason I work to ensure that every child is a wanted child, because I know from my own experience the emotional security that comes with knowing you're a wanted child, and have learned from my peers that emotional *in*security comes with knowing your parents didn't want you at all.

[bigbigtruck.livejournal.com]

No one who has ever tried to convince me to have a child has had the hypothetical child's welfare or happiness in mind.

[bigbigtruck.livejournal.com]

and again i fail spectacularly at the livejournal commenting!

blarg and blarg for no "edit comment" buttons

[christophine.livejournal.com]

I've lived in towns small enough that they only had one pharmacy, and the next closest one was a hefty distance away.

I take the Pill. Not for contraception, since I'm sterile. I take it because it is the preventative for the endometriosis and uterine cancer associated with untreated PCOS.

Because the Pill does more for some than just prevent an unwanted pregnancy, I have a big problem with the idea that some pharmacists have decided that they won't provide it. Aside from my disgust with people who feel they have the right to force their morals on everyone else, there are women like me who need it for something other than birth control. Were I currently stuck in a place with only one pharmacy in town, and that pharmacy tried to prevent me from having the medication I need to stay healthy, I'd be suing them up one side and down the other.

I've got no real point here. I just can't not rant a little when I see another symptom of one group trying to push their moral beliefs onto everyone else.

I'll hush up now. ;)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

You know, as I sit here and think about it -

The people I know on the pill right now? The vast majority are not on it for contraception - I'm ticking off on my fingers, and I can think of one person taking it for contraception (and that's a maybe, I'd have to ask) - and the rest?

PCOS, and other hormonal affects.

This is the primary reason this pisses me off. Somebody who does not know why the medication is prescribed (and they can ask if they need to know, that's their job under licensure), wants to make a judgement call based on personal opinion. Uh uh.

There are nastier things to prescribe - believe me. They going to stop filling scripts for thalidomide? It's being used again, y'know....

[lorriejharris.livejournal.com]

They going to stop filling scripts for thalidomide? It's being used again, y'know....

O.o

Excuse my lack of diplomacy, but

WTF?!

What the hell for?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

HIV, Cancer, Leprosy - others. Google it up. It's amazing.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you can delete the dumb things and start over again. *laughs*

[footyfoot.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough- I have a friend who is on Thalidomide. It works very well on the skin/mouth lesions caused by severe Epstein-Barr Virus problems, too. The other stuff (interferon, cyclosporine, and suchlike) wasn't working. You can bet they grilled him most thoroughly over the coals about his reproductive plans before giving it to him, too...