emergency contraception: access denied

[jrtom]

Morality clauses, EC, and broken condoms

An enraged and enraging first-person account of someone's unsuccessful attempt to get access to EC in rural Ohio.

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

That's just horrible. Thanks.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

That's just horrible. Thanks.

Not a combination often seen in nature... :)

Whence comes this icon?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks for making me aware of how horrible the world is. *shrug*

As mentioned on my icon page, it's from this xkcd "strip". :)

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

I knew what you meant (or, at least I had assumed that I did and it turns out I was right :> ), I just thought it a combination worth remarking upon; most people don't sincerely offer thanks for such things. (I do, but I think we're in the minority. Must be the grad school. :P :) )

Thanks for the xkcd pointer. Some other time (like, when I'm not at work) I'm going to have to burn through the archives. (I'd already recently been introduced to "sudo make me a sandwich", which made me happy. :) )

[karjack.livejournal.com]

This goes right back to why I'm pro-choice even though I'm generally anti-abortion.

The only way they would let her get access to EC was if she were raped or married? Married?! So if you're married you can murder all the babies you want (keeping in mind this is the mental stance of the people creating this 'criteria' in the first pace) but if you're single it's forced motherhood for you!

Does that make any kind of logical 'moral' sense to you? Coming at this from the angle of so-called morality, that is.

Or is it a rather blatant attempt to punish a woman for having sex out of wedlock? Let the dirty whore live with the consequences of her decision to spread her legs without a wedding ring?

That being the case, is it really moral to treat an unborn child -- which when wanted is a great and incredible thing -- as a punishment? And what kind of life does a punishment baby hope to look forward to? Besides, in places where abortion is legal, isn't withholding EC just prolonging the inevitable and making it more expensive and paifnul for everyone involved?

Oops, sorry. Some logic escaped there.

Logn story short, the reason I am decidedly pro-choice even though I'm anti-abortion is that I don't think it's moral at all to use children as a punishment to inflict upon a woman for the crime of deciding what to do with her body with or without the state's sanctioned okay.

Gah. Infuriating is right!

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

What you said, basically. :P I also found the "married" thing bizarre--the only sense that it makes to me is if you assume that they were asking because they felt that she should have discussed things with her husband (or perhaps even "received permission"). That is, not "we won't prescribe EC because you're not married" but "we won't prescribe EC because we aren't sure you have permission from the hypothetical father". Which engenders (heh) an entirely different sort of rant, but at least makes more sense than "we want unwed women to have more abortions". I've reread the original article, and I can't tell from it exactly what context that question came up in.

Anyway. Much anger. Yes.