Post by benson on Feb 23, 2022 19:58:40 GMT
If you’re one of the 99 percent of American women who will use birth control at some point in their lives, you may want to pay attention. Last week, a leaked memo showed that the Trump administration intends to cut family planning funding and encourage women—including teenagers—to abandon birth control in favor of the rhythm method.
Maybe next the White House will advise women to just stick an aspirin between our knees.
It wasn’t so long ago, for example, that President George W. Bush appointed Dr. W. David Hager to the FDA’s Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs, a man who worked against over-the-counter status for emergency contraception because it meant women “did not want to take responsibility for their actions.” Before his appointment, Hager was best known for writing a book advising women that prayer could cure PMS.
Those were the same years that abstinence-only education was in full effect, when teachers taught students that condoms cause cancer, and that girls needed to watch what they wore because boys simply couldn’t help themselves.
www.marieclaire.com/politics/a13082811/conservatives-hate-birth-control/
Maybe next the White House will advise women to just stick an aspirin between our knees.
It wasn’t so long ago, for example, that President George W. Bush appointed Dr. W. David Hager to the FDA’s Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs, a man who worked against over-the-counter status for emergency contraception because it meant women “did not want to take responsibility for their actions.” Before his appointment, Hager was best known for writing a book advising women that prayer could cure PMS.
Those were the same years that abstinence-only education was in full effect, when teachers taught students that condoms cause cancer, and that girls needed to watch what they wore because boys simply couldn’t help themselves.
www.marieclaire.com/politics/a13082811/conservatives-hate-birth-control/