are you fucking kidding me?

[moonwise]

From CNN:

'Conscience clause' grows in health care

A little-noticed provision cleared the House of Representatives last week that would prohibit local, state or federal authorities from requiring any institution or health care professional to provide abortions, pay for them, or make abortion-related referrals, even in cases of rape or medical emergency.

In Mississippi, a bill became law in July that admirers and critics consider the nation's most sweeping "conscience clause." It allows all types of health care workers and facilities to refuse performing virtually any service they object to on moral or religious grounds.

Absolutely unreal. So it's legal in Mississippi to refuse me my BC pills/patch? Thank god I live in the Northeast rather than the Bible Belt, though nowhere is safe from this kind of bullshit.

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[magickgrl.livejournal.com]

Get this, I don't want children. Never had the urge to have one and the way my love life is going, never will. Plus I've had nothing but female related issues all my life. Now when I was covered under my parents insurance in college, I again was having issues. They wanted to try all these meds but I wanted to have the problem solved by just removing the problem. Did they? No, because I was and still am of child bearing years. Instead they wanted me to attend psychiatric evaluations to see why I wanted a hysterectomy. Oh they would allow me one, but only if I was over 30 or something.

I agree the issue of birth control is pathetic. Especially when over aged men tell us how to run our bodies.