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Worry Now
I don't usually read Glamour, so it was with some surprise that I discovered the article "The New Lies About Women's Health" from a link on Salon (where, no doubt it will reach more people than anything I have to say here).
But. I do feel compelled to talk mention it. It is absolutely astonishing, and I can only hope that there is hope in the fact that Glamour will print something as serious and disturbing as this piece and that it will galvanize people.
Put bluntly, the United States government (in the form of the FDA, the NIH and the CDC) is lying to women about all sorts of things that can seriously affect their health and putting policies into practice that will further compromise their lives.
Here are the bullet points. The article elaborates and, I hope, works to convince women that it is up to them to fight not just for their reproductive rights but also for their lives, since this is far from a benevolent administration. This is a government that would like to punish women of any age and lifestyle for having sex.
- Women are being denied emergency contraception.
- Women who have been raped are also denied emergency contraception.
- Women are being lied to about how effective condoms are at protecting against HPV.
- There is a good chance that women will be denied vaccines that would protect them from the HPV strains that cause cervical cancer.
- Women's tax dollars are paying for misleading anti-sex propaganda.
- Doctors can be compelled by law to lie to their patients. (In Texas, Kansas, Montana and Mississippi, doctors are legally obliged to tell women that there is a link between abortions and breast cancer. There has been no study that suggests that conclusion at all.)
These are scary times and one would be a fool to think that one's body is not on the line.
posted by Elise at 8:29 AM
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