Contraception “access” not enough for Planned Parenthood
I see the word “access” written freely by progressives and usually mentioned in conjunction with needs like birth control or abortions. Their argument is always framed as seeking more “access” to these services and products.
… Is birth control not available to everyone of age today? Isn’t abortion considered the law of the land today and, therefore, legal and available? Who isn’t getting “access” to either birth control or abortions…?
… Let’s be honest, it’s not more “access” that Planned Parenthood desires, but more “paid for by the taxpayer access.”
~ Bill Whittinghill, in a letter to the editor of the Ventura County Star, June 26
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Jul.03, 2012 2:00 am |
Contraception |
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
This reminds me of that silly pic of an elderly woman holding a sign pleading, “Don’t Take Away My Birth Control.”
However, it leads to a way to decrease the appalling number of problem pregnancies: encourage socially responsible young men to seek intimate relations with post-menopausal women. Gray hair and wrinkles should be what a good man goes for. Turn out the lights and close your eyes. Do something for 40 years and you’re bound to get the bugs out. Finally, Benjamin Franklin encouraged young men to seek elderly female companionship by saying, “They are so grateful.”
“Is birth control not available to everyone of age today?”
Yup. And available to those not of age, too.
Supposedly, it’s hard to access if you’re at Georgetown, causing one to have to whine to Congress.
That’s one access (birth control) that leads to another access (non-marital intercourse) which leads to another access (tax payer’s pockets) which leads to another access (her uterus via abortion).
If you’re feeling like you’re being raped lately – it’s because there’s too much access.
“Who isn’t getting “access” to either birth control or abortions…?”
Wait. Right next to this quote, you have a post about how Mississippi has only one abortion clinic still open, and you’re hoping it gets shut down. In the same moment, you have this quote that states that everyone has access to abortion if they want it, and that abortion activists are just trying to get the government/taxpayers to cover the costs.
Isn’t it reasonable think that abortion activists look at the situation in Mississippi and see that women do not, in fact, have access to abortion?
Regardless of where you stand on the issue, I think it’s pretty clear that abortion activists do indeed see a lack of access, not just a lack of funding.
Women need access to prenatal care, not prenatal murder.
I think the main point is about birth control, which IS NOT hard to get, in the least. Anywhere.
Isn’t it reasonable think that abortion activists look at the situation in Mississippi and see that women do not, in fact, have access to abortion?
Nope. Even assuming (hopefully) the Jackson clinic is shut down, all the women in Mississippi can still get abortions, they just have to go farther out of their way to do it. Claiming otherwise is like saying I don’t have “access” to Disneyworld because I live in Alabama and Disneyworld only exists in Florida so I have to really far to get to it. I can still go there and no one is going to be able, legally, to prevent me from getting to the Magic Kingdom. It’s just farther to travel.
If abortion is made illegal, then it will be fair to claim people don’t have access to it. It is even fair to claim that pro-life people seek to reduce or eliminate access to abortion. We want to make it illegal, so that’s no secret. It is not reasonable to say that there is no access to abortion now, even in Mississippi.
If you go to the original letter to which Mr Whittinghill is responding, you will see that it is in fact speaking about birth control, not abortion. And this should be no surprise since that advertisement op-ed was written by the PP medical director, and we all know PP will talk about anything to avoid talking about the A word.
original self-serving advertisement and propaganda cloaked in the appearance of an Op-ed can be found at http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/jun/23/siegfried-expanding-access-to-birth-control/
What everyone is missing here is that this whole debate was designed to “move the goalposts”. Not too long ago, there was beginning debate amongst the Pro-Life movement to target and make birth control illegal again. Griswold vs Connecticut is not a favorite decision of the Right. Now, after the whole thing with the “contraception mandate”, Conservatives will be happy if they just don’t have to PAY for other people’s contraception.
There is now literally dozens of hours of footage on the internet of some of THE most conservative politicians saying “I’m all for women having access to all contraception, but I don’t want people who object to pay for it”. Rick Santorum even said he favors women having access to contraception. Rick Santorum. Most Conservatives realize that if they even talk about making contraception illegal, the backlash will be extremely severe. Poll after poll after poll shows huge majorities favor unlimited ACCESS to contraception.
The Oklahoma Personhood Amendment from the Legislature was even tweaked to make 100% sure any form of FDA-approved contraception would not be made illegal by it. The net effect of this whole thing has been to make any politician who values their political career not to dare say they want to make contraception illegal.
Yeah, Dave, and you’d be surprised the number of Pro-Lifers who actually support hormonal contraception use themselves. I’m one.
http://www.aaplog.org/position-and-papers/oral-contraceptive-controversy/hormone-contraceptives-controversies-and-clarifications/
There are some more.
Yes, there are things I’d like to see illegal (like Ella, Plan B, the IUD). They’re harmful and have NO redeeming qualities. But condoms, for example, if disposed of properly don’t pose as much harm to the environment, so it’s pretty unlikely I’d ever find myself against them. The Pill? You bet it needs tighter regulation. Those hormones ending up in our water supply are having a detrimental effect on our environment. Maybe years upon years of dosage is affecting womens’ fertility when they do decide they finally want to have kids? Maybe big pharma and PP keep trying to convince people that abortifacient products are merely contraception (or acne treatment)? Big pharma and PP don’t CARE about anyone’s health. They care about MONEY.
What women need is real genuine health care. Not elective products that aren’t necessary and only harm the body and the unborn child. Why does a women who won’t drink water out of a plastic bottle think nothing of regularly dosing herself with harmful synthetic hormones? Disconnect.
xalisae,
Then I sincerely hope you begin to rethink your support for hormonal contraceptives. It is a continuum of thought and action. Abortion begins with contraception. The mindset, “I shouldn’t have to be pregnant if I don’t want to be” starts with pills and condoms and ends at the abortuary.
(Not to mention the slew of harmful side effects of artificial hormones.)
Who doesn’t have access to contraception? It’s been pushed on me in almost every doctors office. The wall graphs, the freebie paraphanalia in docs offices, all scream ‘here’s the pill in so many splendid and easy ways!’
We couldn’t make (fake) hormonal bc illegal because women and their men are addicted to it in great numbers. Women use it without blinking or thinking to ask questions- even women who claim to love nature and use organic products, etc. Then they pee ecxess fake carcinogenic hormones back into the water- great plan.
But otherwise smart people have been blinded by their sex drive since time immemorial, nothing new.
I guess it will have to take random species of fish dying/morphing and lots of
humans getting more cancer for big pharma to be pressured to come up with real treatment for women.
I’ve made the choice to go to NFP doctors for my severe endometriosis. They have to think outside the pill box, and I’ve actually been aided by them, as opposed to other docs who just push the pill but don’t address causes of endometriosis.
Frankly, I’m done with the whining from folks who want everyone else to pay for their sex life. Especially when such widespread use of the pill has made it difficult for women with actual gynecological problems like me to find treatment.
The whole area of reproductive medicine has tanked, with most mainstream docs being 40-50yrs behind the advances that NFP docs using Napro technology have made.
And then there is this:
http://www.livescience.com/2781-pill-women-pick-bad-mates.html
Eh. I’ve used contraception before and managed not to kill any of my children. Thanks for your concern though, Jen. 9_9
I know it might be hard to grasp, but some people can use contraception AND maintain a realistic view of failure rates and the biological purpose of sex. Yeowza.
xalisae,
Not being fluent in text or symbols, I admit I have no idea what 9_9 means.
Leaving your eye-rolling and snark aside, I don’t believe you understand what I meant. Accepting the idea that we ought to be able to have sex without “worrying” about making a baby is the first step on the road to abortion. We cannot separate the procreative and unitive aspects of sex without opening the door to abortion.
Or maybe you do understand what I meant, and you simply refuse to admit that what I’m saying is true. You also cannot blithely dismiss the damage being done to women’s and girls’ bodies and the environment through the use of artificial hormones. It’s not good for any of us.
From an interview with Vicki Thorn, founder of the National Office for Post Abortion Reconciliation and Healing and Project Rachel:
“There is some new research showing that the pill seems to change the way a woman’s brain develops. Under the impact of these steroid hormones, a woman’s brain starts looking a little more like a male brain, and emotional memory is affected. When shown a picture of an accident, men tend to remember the big picture, what happened, whereas women normally remember the fine details. The woman on the pill, though, describes the picture more from the male perspective and seems to lose some of her ability to see the details.”
The abortion industry wants there to be so much access to abortion that it is hard to avoid an aboriton if you want to have a baby.
Planned Parenthood kills babies. If our government, and/or Planned Parenthood cared about women they would be safeguarding the lives of our unborn children.
The pro choice people can play word games, so be careful.
“Birth control” can have a multitude of different meanings.
Condoms never hurt anyone. The Pill can act as an abortofacient and the abortion “surgery” is absolutely evil.
Jen,
You’ve said it well. Contraception is always a lie. The universe does not contain enough pills, devices, shots, etc. to allow women to assume they can have all the sex they want and never get pregnant. I’m sick of hearing people describe the baby as a contraceptive failure. Babies and pregnancy are never a failure. After all, if you teach children that God made them and loves them, then take contraceptives, you’re telling God our Father, “I know You love me and gave me parents to raise me, but I won’t allow You to create another child and expect me to become the parent.” Contraception is the beginning of selfishness and abortion, its logical result.
Alrighty. I’ll just let you guys think that I and all my relatives who have conceived even while using contraception and have living children that we love very much were just too lazy to get off our mean, evil, selfish duffs and have our kids killed at the abortion mill. G’night.
Alyssa Cumella says:
July 4, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Planned Parenthood kills babies. If our government, and/or Planned Parenthood cared about women they would be safeguarding the lives of our unborn children. The pro choice people can play word games, so be careful.“Birth control” can have a multitude of different meanings.
(Denise) This is why I believe the term “birth control” should be dropped. It could include abortion as abortion “controls” births.
Contraception is the right term because it means avoiding conception and thus excludes abortion.