Homegrown Terrorism, America at War on Women

[amilyn]

This got long, what with the links and the rants. I am not cut-tagging it. It is too important.

In what shouldn't be a surprise to me, but is:

Dr. George Tiller was murdered at church this morning.

Dr. Tiller's Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, KS was one of the ONLY in the country providing some of the termination services to women

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[marag]

::gasps:: I just walked back in the door, so I hadn't heard that Dr. Tiller had been murdered. How horrible.

Damn domestic terrorists. :(

I hadn't realized until the other day that Catholic hospitals won't allow sterilizations. I'm so glad I was at an Adventist hospital. ::snort::

Un-friggin-believable.

[amilyn]

Indeed. It's unreal.

[kengr]

There was a group that was buying hospitals specifically so they could then forbid abortions and other "objectionable" practices there.

They bought a local hospital and one of the effects was that one of the few dooctors in the US who does sex reassignment surgery was told she couldn't use their facilities anymore. She moved her practice to another state.

A few months after that there was a big scandal because the company hadn't *paid* any of the hospital staff for a couple of months. And shortly after that they went
bankrupt.

As for Catholic hospitals, they also won't provide any sort of birth control, including the "morning after" pill for rape victims. NOR WILL THEY TELL PATIENTS ABOUT SUCH OPTIONS.

[hurryupslowly]

Hey, I'm angry too and I don't live in the US. And I will never ever understand, for as long as I live, why some people believe that women shouldn't have control over their own bodies in whichever way they see fit.

[dotfic]

This is a terrific essay. So well said.

[amilyn]

Thank you.

[tempertemper]

Hear hear!

And I saw from makd's post the terrible news.

Obviously we have our share of pro-life campaigners in the UK, but I am shocked by the hoops you guys have had to jump through for things there. I guess we really took it for granted here that dh could get his vasectomy on the NHS, free of charge, no questions besides, 'Are you sure?' asked.

:(

[amilyn]

Yeah. We went the route of Husband getting the surgery because it was a) cheaper and b) less invasive. He turned out, however, to be Wolverine's love child and HEALED. We found out when I got pregnant. So, bless him, he did it AGAIN. Six months out, he was still shooting blanks, and the doc didn't see a point in checking again since it was obviously successful...which, we found out a couple of months later, it only was temporarily because...ta-da, I got pregnant again, and he turned out to have a low count, but he'd healed again. And, BLESS him, he offered to do it AGAIN, at which point I said, "To what end

[cereta]

"Oh, well, NO ONE would need an abortion if they just wouldn't have sex when they don't want babies or would be more RESPONSIBLE..."

There really are not words for how furious the knee-jerk "Abstinence!" cry of the forced-birth crowd makes me. My one and only pregnancy scare was when I was married, and we are right now struggling with finding a birth control option that my body doesn't rebel against (I spontaneously rejected my Mirena, ffs). What does "abstinence!" have to say to me?

[havocthecat]

I've linked you from my journal. I'm sad you had to write something like this, and that this is still a battle being waged.

[amilyn]

Indeed. Thanks for the link.