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The only health provider I had for years. And they were excellent.
I get so irate over people wanting to defund this organization. That would have had such a devastating effect on my life when I was younger.
They need to mind their own business.
Don't know what I'd do without them. My doctor just retired. I had her over 30 years at PP. Don't know what I'm going to do now. See a stranger ? ugh.
Im trying to find a GP now without much luck.
yardwork
(61,417 posts)You mean INCUBATORS, don't you?
In Reich Wing World, women are slaves, nothing more. Wouldn't surprise me IN THE LEAST, after overturning the right to contraception, that the nazis try to repeal the 19th amendment.
After all, females are just property to these insane fascists.
Geez, I HOPE I don't have to include a sarcasm emoji here.....
niyad
(112,434 posts)alarming rate.
AZ8theist
(5,339 posts)and it DISGUSTS me..
lark
(23,003 posts)Their doctors were good, they recognized that I had special challenges and gave me birth control pills even though I had severe circulatory issues. I got them with, I have a very high chance of dying if I get pregnant due to my condition and there's 1 in a million chance (maybe with me 1 in 1000) that I die from birth control so which is safer? Especially since I lived with my boyfriend and had already had 1 abortion and did not want to do that a 2nd time. Thank God for Planned Parenthood!
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Mind your own business.
That should be number one on the list of responsibilities for insuring freedom.
niyad
(112,434 posts)Kath2
(3,054 posts)This illegitimate Supreme Court decision has made me furious.
Every woman in this damn country deserves the same rights that I had.
niyad
(112,434 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)RWers are misinformed about the role of PP, as they are about many things.
Lonestarblue
(9,880 posts)It is far more. It is a real healthcare provider and is the only medical facility available for many poor women. Years ago, Texas Republican legislators drastically cut the healthcare budget for womens clinicsmost also treated poor men without health insurancein an effort to force PP and other clinics out of business. They succeeded with the closing of 81 clinics, mostly in rural areas of Texas without other healthcare services. Only 3 of the 81 had ever performed an abortion. The rest just provided medical services. One result was an increase in the maternal death rate, which seems not to concern Republicans at all because theyre mostly poor women.
And what did the legislature do with their savings? Gave much of it to Christian crisis pregnancy centers to expand in Texascenters that have no trained medical staff or doctors and provide no medical treatment. What they do provide are lies about abortion and proselytizing for their religion.
We badly need universal healthcare in this country and a law that makes abortion legal while keeping politicians and religious extremists out of our healthcare. I dont know how this can be accomplished at this point, but its worth working on.
DFW
(54,051 posts)Someone wanted to convince me I should join the "President's Circle." I asked why.
She said "because I'm the president." I said, "Oh, well in that case, OK!"
mercuryblues
(14,491 posts)My Pap Smear found abnormalities on the cervix. Further testing found stage 1 cervical cancer. They made a few phone calls and found a DR in my area willing to treat me basically at cost and on a payment plan. They were also my source for birth control pills.
Fast forward several years and I now live in another state, with a job that provides so called health insurance. Again, a Pap smear shows stage 1. Only now my "health insurance" will not pay for a pre-existing condition. My Dr will not help me until I pre-pay for her services. By the time I did that, I was at a stage 2. I was so fucking broke that I had the surgery in the morning and went into work for my shift. My supervisor tried to send me home and I had to refuse, explaining that I needed the money because I had to pay out of pocket for the procedure, because insurance refused to pay.
This is one reason why I loathe republicans.
Kath2
(3,054 posts)I hope you are feeling better.
My loathing of republicans only increases as I age.