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]

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.