7 Things Obama's Win Could Mean for Women's Health

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lemyaskin of OK 9:48PM September 22, 2009

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Bksqpfut of OR 9:04AM July 15, 2009

1. The elimination of legal abortion is impossible--it will happen illegally if we try
2. That said, there are way too many abortions in our country and I don't want to see that happen elsewhere
3. Especially odious is the partial birth abortion, especially as these are done when the fetus could be delivered and live--even in the case of endangered maternal health.
So we MUST start a dialogue of compromise on this subject. I agree that increasing contraceptives availability is helpful. AND we need to include parents in the education about sex. We need to stop dictating to parents what their children MUST learn on moral issues. The proper place for sex education to occur is in a medical environment, not a school--where the parent and the child can talk with a trained professional medical educator about options, not handing out condoms indiscriminately at schools. One aspect of medical counseling is a nonjudgmental approach--just the facts. Further, the parent and child should also have access to spiritual guidance as per their beliefs. This is not a government issue, this is a life issue and such should be returned to local legislation. GET THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OUT OF MORALITY ISSUES! If the town where you live doesn't allow what you want--move!
I don't ask my accountant to do things on my tax return that she would find immoral. No physician should have to do a procedure that he/she feels is immoral. As for pharmacists, the decision for birth control is between a woman, her spiritual leader, her sexual partner, and her doctor. It is inappropriate for pharmacists to deny a script unless they also want to allow the physician to dispense medication (with appropriate state licensure). If your state allows that, then pharmacists can do as they choose, and physicians can make available what they feel is essential to their practice of medicine.
Finally, it is time to get Planned Parenthood out of providing medical treatment. They interfere with women establishing good doctor/patient relationships and are detrimental to good long term medical care. Put the additional funds into encouraging and training doctors to be family physicians and improving our physician training. Further, while we are at it, put all doctors through 1-2 years of family medicine training before allowing them to specialize--this will increase the respect for the family physician, give specialists a better appreciation for how good family medicine improves medical care, and teach the specialists how to treat patients from a multi-systems approach.

MontanaMountainWoman of MT 12:12AM December 11, 2008

Sex education I feel should be taught in the home. Government is causing a breach between parents and their children. Parents have lost the sense of responsibility and have come to rely on Government for raising their children in this country.

of NH 11:59AM December 10, 2008

I am astounded by some of these comments. Please read some studies. And promoting abortion?
1. No more federal funds for abstinence-only education.--Comprehensive sex-ed advocates accurate knowledge about birth control so you will use it when you have sex and not get pregnant and consider an abortion.
3. Better coverage for contraception and pregnancy.--Again, contraception prevents pregnancy and thus abortion and perhaps not having to pay $5000 to have a baby would make some people consider having a baby, not an abortion.
4. Same, fewer abortions.
5. MOST of what Planned Parenthood does is not abortion but things like providing contraceptives (which again, reduces abortions).
6. Just making things fairer for women.
7. Morning after pill can prevent abortion instead of a woman being sent home where she may get an abortion since it'll be too late for the morning-after pill.
Seriously, it seems like some people are against sex. Why else would you want to deny access to abortion AND contraceptives? If you want to get rid of both, that means people must stop having sex or have many children they don't want.
Please read the dozens of studies on the failures of abstinence-only education.

Lyndsay of NY 12:45AM November 26, 2008

I was amazed how much the post above entitled Civil Diobedience in Health Care sounded like orders from Nazi Germany. I am not a radical in any form. But, I must say that if one thinks that medical school prepares anyone completely, that person is very nieve. If our doctors leave their moral and spiritual values at the door we might just as well give a license to just take orders to kill without question. The doctors are the ones who make up our medical care. If they have no objections to what they see as immoral or unacceptable, we are all headed toward a culture of death.

Sunni M Baran of CA 1:24AM November 17, 2008

I was one of those woman convienced that abortion was what I had to do to get on with life as it was then. I was on the table and I said NO No....It was by far the best decision I ever made. I was no different than millions of women who don't say no to abortion. My son is now 33 years old with 3 sons of his own. He is a doctor and a great father. Just think, if I had waited one more minute, he would never have been born. He would have ended up in the trash as medical waste! I don't want my son to be doing abortions as a doctor either. If Obama has his way, my son may have to abort a child just like himself. What do you think abortion means to me? I have been there. I would never let anyone make that decision without knowing the horible reality awaits that child.

Sunni M Baran of CA 1:12AM November 17, 2008

Yes, this site is so biased that it is no wonder the comments reflect one sided wishful thinking. Parents who want their kids to actually be accountable for their actions will find no help here. Under the heading for information on details of abortion, no where is there any details of the horror that it is. They end with the statement that abortion is safer than childbirth....says who and in what conditions. It aslso says that women feel a relief after abortion as their last comment on how a woman feels after an abortion. I am sure many would like PPH's site to put on pictures of aborted fetus with delicate perfect hands and feet. Where on this page does it show or tell what abortion really is? It is nothing less than killing a child that has not yet seen the light of day! We need more Mikes writing here about their children!

Sunni M Baran of CA 1:04AM November 17, 2008

A doctor or nurses' job is to provide care, not judgement. When you step onto the job for the day your own personal morals and ethics take a back-seat to what you been taught during medical school about providing care to patients.

Gimligirl of MI 1:13PM November 16, 2008

I'm not sure how many studies need to be done that show that knowing how to use condoms and having access to condoms DOES NOT make it more likely for youth to be sexually active before people stop using that as their ridiculously uneducated excuse.
Young people are exposed to sex in the media countless times EVERYDAY. So unless you keep your children in a dark hole, they are aware of what sex is, and they know what a condom is. Sex-education simply teaches them about the risks associated with the decision to be sexually active. As well, as ways to help reduce those risks.
And yes, ideally everyone would learn about sexuality at home, but that is not a possibility. Not all parents are willing or able to be involved, and thus, it is the job of the school to help keep these children safe.

danielle of CA 3:48PM November 14, 2008