Having been in contact off and on with health care as a consumer and a woman for almost 30 years, I know how overwhelmingly unconcerned with women's health the medical establishment is, despite the efforts of individual practices and individual practitioners of both genders.
I am pro-choice. You can't make abortion illegal without killing and damaging women who will be desperate to terminate unwanted pregnancies by any means they can procure. I also have an unresearched theory that Planned Parenthood was conceived as a community service, where single people, couples, families, and anyone in need of information and support about a range of ever-evolving subjects could access them in a nonjudgmental environment. The obsessions and domestic terrorism of anti-abortion activists, and the seemingly neverending lack of concern by male-dominated power structures about women's ability to control their reproductive lives, have reduced Planned Parenthood to a besieged skeleton of what it could have been.
As far as birth control is concerned, I'm in favor of barrier methods and think that hormonal birth control is overtouted. It's a way to make women more convenient for men. It does not respect the unique and precise hormonal make-up of each woman. I wouldn't suggest banning it; I just think it is another way to make women's insides conform so that men can exploit their outsides. Barrier methods necessitate communication between partners beyond an assumption or verbal reassurance that the woman has taken all responsibility for not creating a pregnancy.
All of that being said, I think that these are reasonable restrictions:
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/26/coronavirus-trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-rule-on-abortion-pill-restriction.html
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This was a daunting quote from the same article:
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Professional organizations generate automatic respect, especially when they're medical organizations.
Then I started thinking about how male-dominated the medical profession is. Why else would breast augmentation be one of the most performed surgeries in the United States?
Even when women are in leadership roles, they usually get there by obeying the thinking of male establishments.
So, I did a few Google searches.
From Google:
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There was also this, from among many postings about attempted abortion reversal, which I was surprised by at a Google search only for abortion medication:
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Article:
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/922564
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People need to know what they're putting in their bodies and what it does. They need to know that an abortion pill stops a pregnancy by disrupting what a woman's hormones would ordinarily do to prepare her body to host a fetus. It's not like starting and stopping a machine.
I won't discuss trimesters at this page; I didn't think that I was going to write about reproduction at all today.
I do think that there need to be a lot of facilities easily accessible to people everywhere. It is gender discrimination to refuse funding for clinics, but it also affects men, who ought to be able to go to the same places as women for information and support. It is socioeconomic discrimination to make so few resources available that people in rural areas are without care, while resources in urban areas are over capacity.
