Sorry to keep bringing up sad things, but Kate Harding has a feature story up at Salon about
The next generation of abortion providers:
According to Medical Students for Choice, fewer than 50 institutions in the U.S., out of 130 accredited medical schools, offer abortion training as part of their residency programs -- and that, Creinin says, is
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So... I'm scratching my head on this one.
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Of course, on the flip side, DH had a consult about getting a vasectomy and he actually has to get my signed permission to do so.
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I read a very disturbing story awhile back about certain conservative religious organizations pushing their flocks' children into medicine so that they can take over the beast from the inside or some other nonsense. It made me want to weep.
Also, on the tubal ligation thing, that's fucking ridiculous, and it bothers me that women basically have to be past reproductive age (so like, they basically don't need it anymore) before they can get a procedure like that. I'd love to be medically sterilized, myself, because I'm never going to have kids. And I'm never going to change my mind. I'm not going to wake up one morning mysteriously liking children, and even if I did, I have very strong convictions about adoption. I do not now, nor will I ever, have any interest in having kids. Period. But I don't get to make that choice, either, because somebody thinks they know me better than I know myself.
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