Comments on Feminist Finance: The Economy and Your Family (Planning)

ldub: best comment ever.

2009-03-11T08:59:00.000-05:00

ldub: best comment ever.

i heart my own mirena IUD (and i've never had a ch...

2009-03-11T08:49:00.000-05:00

i heart my own mirena IUD (and i've never had a child, but maybe diff doctors have diff ideas?) - and my insurance did cover it. woo!

as for the "culture of life," my brother and i were reminiscing the other night about growing up in a town where this was a huge issue and how, in high school, my parents let him take time off of school to work as an escort at the women's health clinic. his job was to walk women from their cars through the line of protesters safely. mind you, this clinic was the only specific women's health clinic in town - they did your mammogram, they did your pap, they also performed abortions and gave reproductive counseling, but every woman going in there was getting attacked by the protesters, sometimes even having their license plates recorded by bystanders, "for their records." ugh. this led to my brother's declaration that, "you know, i've never actually been in a real fight. i mean, i got tackled by a priest a couple of times, but i got him on the ground pretty fast." heh.

Amen, Mary. I have a Paragard IUD and it's the bes...

2009-03-10T23:13:00.000-05:00

Amen, Mary. I have a Paragard IUD and it's the best b.c. EVER for me, and I am always going on about it and how much I love it. No hormones, no monthly expenses, good for ten years, it's just so awesome. My insurance (BC/BS) paid for most of it - as well they should, considering they cover Viagra. However, no one I know has ever had a doctor recommend IUD. They ALL want to give you the Pill or the Shot or the Ring or the Patch, which all involve hormones and substantial regular expenses. A lot of ob/gyns around here will also tell young women they can't have an IUD unless they've already had a child, which is patently untrue. Mirena is for post-partum women; Paragard is for anyone.

I wish people would GET IT that women's rights are human rights, and that reproductive health and freedom affect EVERYONE, not just women.

I think it's time for the IUD to make a comeback. ...

2009-03-10T21:22:00.000-05:00

I think it's time for the IUD to make a comeback. People I know still think of an IUD as being that terrible horseshoe crab-shaped Dalkon Sheild that caused all those deaths a couple decades ago. Granted, IUDs are a bit of an investment, but I would think that health insurance companies would be more likely to pay for that than abortion services (unless the only birth control they cover is "prayer").