Sunday, March 18, 2012

Politics, BCP and abortion

I have no intention of turning this blog into anything political. However, due to the facebook posts plastered in my news feed, I feel the urge to speak up and say my peace.

First, let's talk about America paying for everyone else's birth control and the "Affordable Care Act contraceptive coverage regulation". Here you can read the transcript from testimony of Sandra Fluke that has raised a lot of this controversy.

For me her testimony does not convince me on why I should pay for your birth control and the next persons. Her testimony is based on women who she knows and women who have contacted her. The two medical diagnosis that she mentions are PCOS and endometreosis both tht are commonly treated with BCP. But should they? IMO, absolutely not. This is treating a symptom rather then treating the underlying cause. In my previous blog post about PCOS I said, "In the NaPro world there is a surgical procedure called Ovarian Wedge Resection that is used to treat PCOS. NaPro will also treat PCOS with hormone management for the rest of you life which is very important. [...] Not only does this effect a women's reproductive system but it puts women at much higher risk for obesity, high blood pressure, high LDL-C (bad cholesterol) and low HDL-C (good cholesterol), heart disease (at least a 7x increase risk), diabetes (by the age of 40, almost 40% of women will develop diabetes), and it is even thought to have a higher incidence of endometrial and breast cancer. So yes, this disease absolutely positively needs to be manage correctly. However, most of the time it is not and a person is given BC instead. Crap!

So I consider her "medical arguement" invalid. This is NOT the way to manage these diseases. I have an issue that doctors hand out BC without doing any type of thrombophilia work up not knowing if a woman is more prone to blood clots when taking BC. This is crap too!!

Our healthcare system is ruled by health insurance companies and let me tell you it will only get worse in the government's hands. Take for example, Medicare and Medicaid. These systems desperately need re-vamped...they aren't working!! Or welfare, another government system that is abused over and over again and used incorrectly.

Also knowing what I know about the Creighton Model and how effective it is when used properly, I don't give a crap that these women can't afford birth control. There is a FREE method out there. Well, I shouldn't say free because you do pay a teacher $50 every time you meet with her but I can guarntee that it does not cost 3K! BTW, where does she get that statistic?

However, people shrug off the Creighton Model because of it being designed by the Catholic Church or because its been drilled in their heads that its not effective. Guess what!? If its used correctly, just like the BCP may I add, its just as effective as the pill. However, this means people have to exercise self control. But if you truly do NOT want to get pg you will exercise self control.

People must remember to take a pill every single day if on BCP. How many of us forget? This puts you at higher risk for pregnancy as well. I'm confused how providing birth control for those that are let's face it, lazy will prevent unintended births as this article suggests.

I am absolutely amazed that Americans believe that we should pay for everyone else's birth control. This is a life style that someone is choosing. What about those who can't have children? Or those who have shoveled out 15K every time they try IVF to have a baby? We aren't paying or helping them out. Insurance companies in the US are not required to have this coverage (minus some states and then there is usually some kind of cap).

Moving on to the arguement of D&C/D&E's. I've heard that the government wants to take away a women's right to have one if she miscarried. This is ludacrious! I'm not quite sure how something like that could be done but to kill something that has a beating heart, is ok? Abortion is legal and I don't see that changing any time soon.

With age, knowledge, experience through RPL I have come to the conclusion that I am more Pro-Choice. However, I am completely against abortion for birth control. Its murder but that is my opinion. I believe life begins at conception and not somewhere inbetween. I've also come to the conclusion that this is not a state or federal government issue. They have no right to tell me what I can and can't do with my uterus. This is a moral issue, a religious issue and something that you and God (or a higher being if you believe) will talk about on judgement day.

I've also heard that some politicians want to make women carry stillborn babies until full-term. This is also ludacrious! That's all I have to say!

If all these cases are true why then can't we require those reproducing at rapid rates to have their tubes tied or getting a snip snip? Seriously? The article that I linked above, "The Fiscal Conservative's Case for Spending More Money on Birth Control", states that providing affordable birth control would decrease health care costs and taxes. Really? According to this article 50% of pregnancies are UNINTENDED and accounts for 3% of Medicaid's total spending equalling $12 B-I-L-L-I-O-N dollars per year. WTH is the other 300 BILLION dollars being spent on?

Just food for thought over 12 million pregnancies per year occur in the US. This statistic does not include miscarriages or abortions. So this figure could be 4+ million higher. So you mean to tell me that 6 million pregnancies are unintended???? Doesn't add up to me....

Want to read another article of things they are proposing? Here ya go 10 Reasons Why the Rest of the World Thinks the US is Nuts.

I'm stepping off of my soap box for now. If you care to share any stories with me that I may have missed please do. I promise this won't become a habit discussing politics.