"Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives."

— MITT ROMNEY, forgetting what political party he’s in and what political school of thought he adheres to.

Abortion rates have dropped for people in their 20s due to contraception access

thinkprogress.org

And people want to limit access to contraception because…?

Accreditation council wants to stop requiring family doctors to learn about birth control

rhrealitycheck.org

In a dismaying move, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has proposed changes to the guidelines for family medicine residency programs removing the requirement that residents learn to provide contraception.

In one of the clinics where we work, a 16-year-old girl came in with a sprained ankle.  She left with a prescription for birth control.

This turn of events is not as surprising as it seems:  As family physicians, we treat the whole person.  A quick update revealed that our 16-year-old patient had recently begun to have unprotected sex—and had no plan to get birth control. One of the reasons we love practicing family medicine is that we get to know our patients over time and provide the preventive care they need at every possible opportunity.

A majority of U.S. women get their basic health care from a family physician or other primary care provider, and often that includes reproductive health care. Especially in rural and low-income areas, family physicians do it all! They not only provide birth control but also provide prenatal care, deliver babies, manage miscarriages, counsel patients about unintended pregnancies, and, increasingly, offer pregnancy termination so that their patients do not have to travel long distances and see unfamiliar doctors for these services.

A little something that you people ARE NOT understanding

Some people think that abortion and contraceptives are wrong. Get it? Morally wrong. Romney doesn’t want to “take away your rights” as a woman, he just has a different belief than you. And believe it or not, many people believe this as well. Pardon me if murdering a child living in your body seems a tad inhumane. That’s just what I believe. So does Romney. He’s not trying to take away your rights. He’s fighting for lives. Babies’ lives. And also, people like me don’t want to pay for your abortions or your birth control. I have rights too, you know. PLEASE UNDERSTAND THIS. Read it again if you must.

“You often hear the argument that it’s patronizing when political candidates appeal to women about women’s issues. What women voters really care about is what everybody cares about, and this year, that’s the economy... Moreover, the fact that sometimes gets lost in this parsing and claiming of voter motivation is that access to contraception and abortion are economic issues. They are matters of health care, as the Democrats like to emphasize, and they are moral matters, as the Republicans like to. But there is a reason why the dramatic rise in women’s work-force participation in the nineteen-sixties and seventies coincided with the wider availability of a reliable birth-control pill and abortion. Women’s ability to pursue education and careers is predicated on their ability to plan when they will give birth. The health and prospects of their families rests in part on mothers’ access to reproductive health care. When some, usually more affluent, women can easily obtain birth control, and others cannot, that has real economic implications, both for individuals and for social equity. Romney and Ryan would prefer that your forget it, but women’s issues are everybody’s issues.”

—In today’s Daily Comment, Margaret Talbot considers what women voters want. Continue reading.

Native American Women Demand Rightful Access to Emergency Contraception

aclu.org

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