rural OH: woman must pass morality test to get emergency contraception

[bobbieinok]

http://bitingbeaver.blogspot.com/2006/09/morality-clauses-ec-and-broken-condoms.html

Monday, September 18, 2006
Morality clauses, EC, and broken condoms

I'm stunned. I'm utterly, completely stunned. I'm shaky and anxious and shocked beyond belief. I live in rural Ohio and I have been denied EC.

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"Oh, I see." He says and then he hurries on, "Well, see. *I* understand. I want you to know that I understand what you're saying. But see, the problem is that we have 4 doctors here right now but only one of them ever writes EC prescriptions. But see, the thing is that he'll interview you and see if you meet his criteria. Now, I called the pharmacy but I also talked to him and well....*clears throat*....you can come down and try to get it. You know, if you meet his criteria he'll give you a prescription, I mean, there's really no harm in trying." the nurse trails off, his voice falters as I realize what I'm being told.

He continues, almost over eager at this point to distance himself from the hospital, "See, I understand what you're saying and all. I think it's a good thing that it's going over the counter. I just thought I should tell you what he told me. You know, you'll just have to have an interview with him and he'll see if you meet his criteria. He'll only be on duty until 2pm today though and you should ask for him if you decide to come down because he's really your only chance."

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Folks, the condom broke Friday night and I searched all weekend for someone who could prescribe me EC. It is now Monday and I have to report that I have been unable to find anyone who will write me a fucking prescription for EC. None of the hospitals in the surrounding counties would write it for me. I stopped my search at about 100 miles from my home because my telephone book wouldn't take me out any further than that.

I have been asked about my sexual practices. Whether I'm 'monogamous' or 'in a relationship' if I'm married, if I have kids, how many kids I have, if I was raped or 'traumatized' but there wasn’t' ONE question about my health. Not one. The few places that said that they had a doctor who would occasionally write prescriptions for EC told me that I had to ask for that doctor specifically and then they proceeded to tell me that I would be 'interviewed' to see if I meet that doctors 'criteria' and then they proceeded to ask me all the above questions before telling me that I should 'try anyway' and I 'might be able to talk him into it'.

Unwilling to go to the ER and be shamed and 'interviewed' for my 'criteria' before being told that I'm too slutty or too something or other I broke into a sobbing heap of anger and fear and I did the only thing I could think of doing. Dubhe and I went out to the local pet shop and played with the puppies for awhile before getting a bite to eat. Then I came home and drank a bottle of wine, smoked like a fiend and downed butter rum shots until I fell asleep.

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[MadMaddie]

1. This is really sad.......this is not America....

[C_U_L8R]

2. the problem is... it IS America

[Solly Mack]

8. Yep

[sarcasmo]

9. The new American Theocracy.

[aquart]

3. BushCo, keepin' 'em barefoot and pregnant.

I want to rip off their heads. Oh, and I don't care which heads.

[hobbit709]

4. I'd say to the doctor

"If you don't and I become pregnant, I'll tell everyone that you're the father."

[Warpy]

5. Premenopausal women who are sexually active at all

need to keep one month ahead on those BC pills for the time they hit a dry spell and need to go off the hormones for a while.

Many birth control pills can be used as emergency contraception. Just Google "birth control pill emergency contraception" to find out which ones and at what doses.

[silverojo]

6. That's a good idea...women need to know about this. n/t

[niyad]

7. THIS is one of the reasons the pro-forced birthters have been

so rabidly trying to defeat over-the-counter EC--they won't have CONTROL anymore, and that just pisses the hell out of them. Unless they stand guard at each and every pharmacy, every single hour that pharmacy is open, they won't KNOW (especially if the women call ahead and the package is ready) WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[mongo]

10. Sorry but I just don't buy it

And after reading other lies at this site, this woman turns a good yarn, but EC is just not that hard to find.

First of all, a google search would have led her here:

http://ec.princeton.edu/ec-provider-by-areacode.asp

Or, if nothing was open on Sat, She could have gone here to get a script online:
http://www.getthepill.com /

Which, with a little more searching, she would have known she could have had called in to any Kroger pharmacy to be filled. This is Ohio -- no way she is more than 100 miles from a Kroger. It's hard to be 100 miles from a major city (Cincinatti, Dayton, Columbus, Toledo, Cleveland) when you live in Ohio. It's a pretty populated state.

And why did she wait until Monday to post to her widely read blog the question about the BC she had lying around? Why didn't she do a google search and find out that ANY BC can be used for Emergency Contraception?

I just think that a smart woman with her own flashy and popular blog would have figured out how to get EC if she really needed it. And I've read other pages on that site that I know are chock full of lies.

[niyad]

11. hmmm, you say there are lies, yet, just like faux, you don't bother

to identify them or refute them. just as a matter of curiousity, why should anybody take YOUR word that what she is saying is a lie? all of us who have been following the EC debate and the struggle to get it available over the counter know the sort of mind-set we have been up against.

[mongo]

12. Well, on her story on EC

I have no proof, only common sense to guide me that her exagerations are just that.

No 24-hr pharmacies within 100 mile radious? No where in Ohio I'm sure.

Can't find a hospital which would perscribe it in 100 mile radious? Doubtfull.

Isn't smart enough to do a google search? Highly unlikely.

But to answer your question, the post that I am sure is made up drivel is this one:
http://bitingbeaver.blogspot.com/2005/12/dim-bdsm.html

Unless the "regional BDSM group" that he belonged to consisted of 3 people in his mother's basement, the post is made-up garbage.