Trump
wants to control or stop the monthly pill cycle
(He is a total
menace to all women)
Main post follows this my earlier general
background on birth control – now again back in the news: Basically Republicans hate birth control.
Most will say it’s their “religious belief and thus their right to prevent a
women from getting employer provided health care which includes birth control”
(e.g., birth control services w/o a
co-pay that the ACA-Obamacare allows).
Ergo: They believe that they are stopping
a woman from “killing a baby” by even preventing the natural birth process to
commence, or some other silly ass illogic like NOT killing a baby.
FYI for Mr. and Mrs.
GOP (but mostly Mr.):
There is no baby to be killed by preventing a pregnancy, so what do birth
control pills do?
BTW: Most if not
all employer-provided health care provides Viagra and penile implants and such
for men with ED, and usually at no cost to them. Fair right? Yeah, sure.
More specifically: Birth control pills for example prevent
pregnancy through several mechanisms, mainly by stopping ovulation. If no egg
is released, there is nothing to be fertilized by sperm, and the woman cannot
get pregnant.
Specifically, synthetic
estrogen in the pill works to: Stop the pituitary gland from producing follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) in order to
prevent ovulation, and to support the uterine lining (endometrium) to prevent
breakthrough bleeding mid-cycle.
Meanwhile,
synthetic progestin works to:
§ Stop the pituitary gland from
producing LH in order to prevent egg release.
§ Make the uterine lining inhospitable
to a fertilized egg.
§ Partially limit the sperm's ability
to fertilize the egg.
§ Thicken the cervical mucus to hinder
sperm movement (although this effect may not be key to preventing pregnancy).
Other benefits from birth control:
§ It can help cut the risk of
developing ovarian cancer by 50% according to many studies.
§ It they can shield against pelvic inflammatory disease (called
PID) by doctors; PID is a sexually-transmitted infection of the female
reproductive organs.
§ They can help prevent polycystic ovary syndrome (POS) which
includes an irregular period cycle and excess body hair.
§ Contraceptives helps regulate your
levels so your body releases eggs on time and sticks to a regular menstrual
cycle and blocks POS from developing.
Why are Republicans taking away birth control? Because they
don't want women to have it.
Forget the
excuses for ending Planned Parenthood's grants (recent actions and attempts) —
the real goal has always been to take away birth control from women.
A few key points:
The GOP goal
should seem obvious, but apparently it is not.
Every time
Republicans find some new avenue to take away birth control, there is always
some elaborate excuse — dutifully
repeated by the mainstream media as fact — for why they don't want to
take away your birth control, but simply have to for some other reason
that is always, they claim, not about birth control.
Birth control is never the target, they swear. It's
always just the unfortunate collateral damage of some fight over, they swear,
something else.
Don't buy
that GOP line. The reason Republicans keep taking away birth control is because
Republicans want to take away your birth control.
They hate the power it gives
women, especially young women and low-income women.
Neat quote by H. L.
Mencken: “Conservatives are modern Puritans; they are
driven by the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
This fact is
getting lost in the coverage
of Trump's administration recent move to strip away Title X funding from
Planned Parenthood.
Recall that Title
X is a program that covers a lot of reproductive health care — though,
importantly, not abortion — and
it was mainly set
up in 1970 to help low-income women who don't qualify for Medicaid to obtain
low-cost birth control.
But the
anti-choice activists who control the Republican Party don't like that this
program provides birth control to women who need it. So they are finding ways
to slash away at the program until it can no longer accomplish the goal it was
set up to accomplish.
The right’s cover
story this time is about abortion.
The Trump
administration passed a new DHS rule terminating Title X funding for any clinic
that offers abortion referrals to patients who might need one. Planned
Parenthood, along with any other clinic that follows responsible health care
practices, is now facing the loss of this extremely important source of
contraception funding.
GOP conservatives
frame this as an effort to reduce the abortion rate.
Well, that
makes about as much sense as saying taking away measles vaccines from clinics
that also treat measles cases.
My earlier post
vis-à-vis Title
X takeaway effort here.
Fact: Contraception is the only effective
way to prevent abortion, and I would add: Ladies, only have sex with a man who
has a vasectomy and thus is “firing blanks” as it were.
FYI: More than
500,000 men in the U.S. each year choose vasectomy
for their role in birth control.
Three more facts from very reputable
sources:
§ Evidence shows that abortion
rates fall in response to improved access to contraception access.
§ Cutting contraception
funding to clinics that acknowledge the existence of abortion raises
the abortion rate.
§ Preaching abstinence instead of
providing contraception doesn't work. As
has been true since the beginning of time, people keep having sex.
Continue the
original Salon
article at the link – good story for sure.
My 2 cent summary: Again the GOP right and now apparently
with Trump on board are back on the attack of women.
This is in a word is
pathetic and hopefully every concerned woman in America will react and vote
them out of office when their terms are up *starting in 2020 I would add.
Thanks for stopping by.
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