Last December the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released an official position paper concluding that the time had come for birth-control pills to be sold over the counter. It was the first time the group had endorsed such sales, concluding that scientific evidence suggested that the practice was safe and calling it “a potential way to improve contraceptive access and use, and possibly decrease the unintended pregnancy rate.”
Finally! This is really great news. The ridiculous and completely barbaric practice of forcing women into needless and costly OB-GYN visits whenever we need contraceptive pills has got to go and now even the retrograde American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists agrees.
When oral contraceptives begin to be sold freely, women will finally be able to have backup packs of pills for when one gets lost (or one pill gets lost which makes the entire packet useless.) And we will be able to travel without offering long, humiliating explanations at the pharmacy for why we need our pills 2 days earlier than the pharmacists thinks we do.
Now, of course, we will get even more proof of whether the fetus defenders really care about saving fetuses (as some very intelligent people still insist on believing):
The goal of the proposal, of course, is to make birth-control pills more readily available. “The biggest barrier to adherence is the logistics of a prescription — you run out on a Saturday night, you lose your pills, you go on vacation, you can’t get a doctor’s appointment,” said Daniel Grossman, a gynecologist who is a vice president at Ibis Reproductive Health, a nonprofit research organization.
In his group’s studies, about one-third of the women who were using no birth control or a less effective method said they would use the pill if it were available without a prescription. “This is what women want,” Dr. Grossman added.
Do you think anti-choicers will rally to make oral contraceptives more easily available to prevent abortions? Yeah, right. We all know they will be howling against this abortion-preventing measure like a pack of rabid stinky dogs.
So if you know this mythical “really nice person who genuinely cares about fetuses and opposes abortion rights not because s/he hates women but because s/he is such a bleeding heart”, do ask yourself why this “nice” freakazoid is not supporting this measure. And then ask yourself what drives your need to believe that anti-choicers are not woman-haters.
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