kinda OT - for women that want the right to make their own healthcare decisions

(deactivated member)
on 3/26/12 9:37 am

I head all about that... total bullchit. Ridiculous when anyone other the the doctor and patient are driving any of these health decisions. Guess you know where I stand...

And as for those saying the debate is about whether birth control should be free, it WOULDN'T BE... if you pay an insurance premiuj, you are paying in one way or another.

tori

Lady Lithia
on 3/26/12 9:42 am

Well I went and had myself fixed, so I don't take BC, and I work for the state as a teacher, so at present these laws don't have much to do with me. But it's vomitous in the absolute extreme. I wrote the thirty state senators. I got two robo-responses, two "I'll fight the fight but the state senate is NOT woman-friendly", one "you emailed the wrong place, here's the right email, PLEASE send it to him" and one "Are you serious? Does your principal know you hold these kinds of views? What are you teaching your students?" (I'm a math teacher, I teach them geometry)

~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!

(deactivated member)
on 3/26/12 9:54 am

RNY on 01/19/10

Wow, unbelievable... I get so angry when I hear about all this crap that I want to spit! Glad you wrote the state senators... we definitely have to let them all know that it's NOT ok.

tori

nfarris79
on 3/26/12 10:06 am, edited 3/25/12 10:08 pm - Germantown, MD

RNY on 04/13/11

Follow up would be a copy of the Constitution. That state sen might, you know, read it. Especially the part about freedom of speech. Though in all likelihood, the ignorant response was written by an intern.

First ultra: Stone Mill 50 miler 11/15/14 13:44:38, First Full Marathon: Marine Corps 10/27/13 4:57:11, Half Marathon PR 2:04:43 at Shamrock VA Beach Half-Marathon, 12/2/12 First Half-Marathon 2:32:47, 5K PR Run Under the Lights 5K 27:23 on 11/23/13, 10K PR 52:53 Pike's Peek 10K 4/21/13, (1st timed run) Accumen 8K 51:09 10/14/12.

Lady Lithia
on 3/26/12 12:59 pm

Actually I'm pretty sure she responded personally, as my response - mild in tone, asserting my professionalism in my classroom, and her response was, "That's not what my grandkids tell me about THEIR teachers"

to which I can imagine the dialogue

"So, grandkid, why are your grades so low?"

Grandkid, "My teacher hates me because she's a democrat, and she doesn't like your politics"

To which granny responds: "I can't believe those teachers!"

And then in the school

"Senator's Grandkid," says the teacher, "You really need to turn in your assignments if you want to raise your grades."

Grandkid to teacher, "My grandma says you shouldn't make me do all this work."

~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!

nfarris79
on 3/26/12 11:11 pm - Germantown, MD

RNY on 04/13/11

Ugh, any excuse to shirk responsibility in the family, right? Seriously, I don't get where her response comes from. So, as a teacher you're not entitled to personal opinion or politics? Does she not get that professionals can be impartial in the workplace? No, apparently as the myth goes, that since Democrats are so anti-baby, all we can do is brainwash other people's children to propagate our ideology. Snort.

First ultra: Stone Mill 50 miler 11/15/14 13:44:38, First Full Marathon: Marine Corps 10/27/13 4:57:11, Half Marathon PR 2:04:43 at Shamrock VA Beach Half-Marathon, 12/2/12 First Half-Marathon 2:32:47, 5K PR Run Under the Lights 5K 27:23 on 11/23/13, 10K PR 52:53 Pike's Peek 10K 4/21/13, (1st timed run) Accumen 8K 51:09 10/14/12.

SafetyTurtle
on 3/26/12 7:39 am - Cincinnati, OH

RNY on 09/26/11

I can't crochet at all, but I have a big bin of yarn, and if you can learn to crochet it, I'll mail you my yarn as a contribution to the cause!

This issue has been a near daily conversation between my friends and me.

Gina :~)

Everything I hope to be I already am.

poet_kelly
on 3/26/12 8:15 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

I cannot follow crochet patterns. My grandmother taught me to crochet when I was young but not to read patterns. I can make afghans and scarves; I know how to do different stitches and can count how many I'm doing and decide if I want different colors of stripes or whatever, like that, but I am quite sure I could not make those patterns.

however, I was thinking of figuring out some other way to make a model of a uterus. Maybe I could cut out cardboard shapes and decorate them or something?

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

SafetyTurtle
on 3/26/12 8:21 am - Cincinnati, OH

RNY on 09/26/11

Oooh that could be fun, too...I've been crafting a lot lately to keep busy, maybe I'll add a uterus to my repitoire!

Gina :~)

Everything I hope to be I already am.

poet_kelly
on 3/26/12 8:23 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

I was thinking of tracing the shape of a uterus, along with ovaries and fallopian tubes, onto cardboard, then cutting it out. Then either decorating it with different scrapes of decorative paper, kind of like a collage, or decorating it with fabric scraps, kind of looking like patchwork quilt. Those would look cool. and would not be very expensive to make or to mail.

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

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