Daily Dose of Fury

[willowisp]

Any woman who uses birth control (especially those who, like me, need to do so for medical conditions), or anyone who believes his female friends/relatives/SOs have the right to do so, should read this article. Maybe I should demand that they underwrite the hysterectomy I will need if I end up unable to get pills around here.

Comments

[dnabre.livejournal.com]

Luckily in New Mexico at least (as with 33 other states) health care providers are legally obligated to provide it, and health insurers are required to cover it the same as any other prescription.

Interesting article though.

[dnabre.livejournal.com]

Oh, though individual doctors and pharmists can deny it, which never made sense in terms of such laws.

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can always pick a different doctor or pharmacist, which is definitely annoying. If I were burned by this, I would definitely ask my next doctor up front about his/her opinions on birth control.

An unrelated thing that seriously pissed me off a couple of months ago -- I'm on blood pressure medication, and I briefly had a doctor who I never saw, and who later decided I wasn't actually her patient. She changed my medication. So, when I get a new doctor, he says, "You know this stuff you're taking causes birth defects?" Not can cause but causes. I'm a 28-year-old married woman, and someone thought it was a good idea to prescribe me a medication that definitely causes birth defects??? Without even asking me my fertility status? That goes to the pharmacist too. DAMN.