http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?id=13358
Birth Control Commonly Used for Non Contraceptive Purposes
"Beyond Birth Control: The Overlooked Benefits of Oral Contraceptive Pills," a study conducted by Rachel Jones of the Guttmacher Institute, revealed that 14 percent of birth control pill users in the United States, or approximately 1.5 million women, take the pill exclusively for purposes other than preventing pregnancy. Moreover, 58 percent of birth control pill users take the pill, "at least in part," for purposes other than contraception.
Rachel Jones, the study's author, stated, "It is well established that oral contraceptives are essential health care because they prevent unintended pregnancies. This study shows that there are other important health reasons why oral contraceptives should be readily available to the millions of women who rely on them each year."
The study found that thirty-one percent of women on the pill used it to ease menstrual pain, 28 percent for menstrual regulation, and 14 percent for reducing acne. According to the study, "762,000 women who have never had sex use the pill, and they do so almost exclusively (99%) for noncontraceptive reasons."
Oooooo sex is EVILZ.
Well, I think about not continuing this, but the fact is that all over the internet women are having to fight this fight and they are doing it. I guess that I got stuck with you dumb fucks here, and I can't shirk it. (Not you Soc of course)
Let me start by saying to Soc that I feel for his wife, and that many women, some here believe me, have been prescribed birth control pills for these sort of reasons at some point in their lives. And you are very right Soc. But you see the problem right? You say this and what happens? Right away Bravo ran in here with his dick in his hand, and that dick btw bestows upon him the right to make medical pronouncements
and moral judgements, to let you know that hey, that's okay. Your wife is one of the good girls. She's on the pill for a good reason. Soc's wife's birth control prescription - approved by Bravo! Yay!
But it's none of Bravo's fucking business. It's none of anyone's business. And if we allow them to start separating good birth control prescriptions from bad ones, we come right back to : women who fuck without permission will be punished, they're bad.
As far as birth control not being a health issue; no one ever claimed that "pregnancy is a disease" So this is just more strawmanning from the cheap seats. What is a medical fact however, is that the planning and spacing of her children is a health issue, and it's a big one. As Rana mentioned earlier, whether to have children at all is a health care choice. How many children does Bravo have? Does he have 17 of them? I doubt it. Even if he did, all that would prove is that he found some idiot willing to destroy her body. It would not give them the right to destroy anyone else's. The fact is that unrelenting pregnancies and childbirth impact women's health. It can even kill them. It always has.
Now, let's go even beyond this. Even accepting the above, you will get some who will say, oh okay if she's married and already a mother: Prescription approved! Yay! Well, no. I want all the men here to sit down for this newsflash, cause boys, it's a stunner:
Women Can Fuck For Pleasure.
Sexuality is a very healthy part of life. And having sex when and with whom she wants to have it, for pleasure, is every woman's right. She doesn't have to choose to utilize it, but it's her right to.
And she is not a slut, she's not a whore, she does not need Bravo's approval. She's a woman. Sexuality is a part of life.
This is about the health insurance she earns in exchange for her labor covering her birth control so that she does not have to have a child every year. Oh you bet that's about her health, physical, mental, sexual, and emotional.