Book, I love you dearly...

[nagaina_ryuuoh]

...but this entire post right here:

http://bookkeeper.livejournal.com/170781.html

...This is pretty much disingenuous bullshit from start to finish.

And since LJ's comment size is limited to 4300 words, I'm going to respond to it here.

Let’s get a few things straight from the get-go.

Comments

[the__ivorytower]

The part that really gets me is that there are reasons other than pregnancy to take hormone pills. My mother, as an example, is anaemic. If she has heavy periods it will make her very, very sick. So she takes birth control. This was long after my father had a vasectomy. The law student's friend in the example takes them to avoid ovarian cysts. There are other reasons. Others and others and others, and it would be really, really nice if people would stop treating women who need to take birth control as if they're doing it so they can go out and have orgies every single night.

[nagaina_ryuuoh]

My feelings on the matter are very simple: there are no good/pure/legitimate reasons to take birth control and there are no bad/slutty/illegitimate reasons to take birth control, and fuck anyone who says otherwise. Whether you're taking BC to prevent anemia, dysmenorrhea, migraines, or, y'know, actually getting pregnant, the purpose of birth control is prevention and it should be treated as such, period.

[kalikahuntress]

This exactly, why is preventing pregnancy an illegitimate reason I will never understand.

[the__ivorytower]

Most verily do I say, fuck yeah.

[sethrak]

Right there with you, with an addenum of "There are no good/pure/legit reasons to get an abortion and there are no bad/slutty/illegit reasons to get an abortion". If you need one, you should get one, and should not have ridiculous roadblocks thrown in your way because you are too weak and womanly to truly know what you do, etc.