Come one, come all, 7 pm. Tonight is the time to stump the pro-lifer. We’ll see what questions we get. Should be fun.
Ignore the ridiculous stock photo, read the piece
Natural Family Planning, not the “rhythm method,” has devices and apps to track your fertility, which is part of your general health and wellness. (Things they don’t teach in school, not even necessarily med school, as I’m learning.) This article explains:
The company behind the Kindara app, which charts a woman’s fertility signs right on her phone and connects her with specialist support, has come out with an innovative thermometer.
Cheekily called Wink, the thermometer is linked wirelessly with the app in her cellphone and acts as an alarm clock – since taking basal temperature at the same time each morning is integral to most fertility-monitoring methods.
Temperature taking can be inaccurate, and there are effective methods without it, but in any case, it’s good to see any form of NFP providing this kind of convenience. Advocates for things like NFP, and I suppose I am one, need to remember that the charting thing can be a pain in the you-know-where for some people, so pretending it is always Fun! and Easy! (see stock photo) is unwise, to put it mildly.
What taking your temperature every morning looks like…never.
How to maximize profit with your spa abortion service
Carafem, the spa abortion experience is about profits. Not service, not women, not activism. Normalizing abortion for them isn’t about normalizing abortion. It’s about making money. Which they will make more of, if abortion is normalized.
As Barbara Kay explains in her column:
There may be a great deal of money to be made in massaging the roiled consciences of those with much to feel roiled about. But that will make Carafem an entrepreneurial success, and nothing more.
One more thing: they don’t do surgical abortions (well why would they, those are more expensive, therefore less profit margin).
Because Carafem will offer only the abortion pill, not vacuum aspiration or other surgical procedures, prospective clients must be no more than 10 weeks pregnant. …
After receiving counseling and some basic tests, Carafem clients will take an initial pill at the clinic. Purdy’s team expects to get them in and out quickly, within about 60 minutes.
That’s a super fast spa experience. Relax, ladies. But not too much. Because we need to charge another client.
When my friend took the abortion pill, from her description, there’s no spa or cup of tea that helps when you are throwing up so much that you are concerned the pill didn’t actually work and you have to go back to get it again.
So the question is: Do they hire extra folks to clean up the vomit or do they simply hope that part happens at home?
On age and ideas
Bad ideas are bad, good ideas are good whether young or old. Peter Stockland comments:
Bad ideas in young heads are as bad as bad ideas in old heads. The issue is not the age at which those ideas enter our heads, but whether they become ideologically fixed and impervious to contradictory reason or experience. The question to be asked is not so much about the beliefs that those under 35 hold, but how, why, and when they give way to a more nuanced and more realistic understanding of the world.
Bold is mine, because that part matters. Are my ideas so fixed that they are impervious to reason and/or experience? I hope not.
Right down to the first detail
MANSFIELD, OH—Having proposed that they spend a night out together, the boyfriend of local woman Cassandra Stephenson is said to have planned a magical evening for the two of them down to the very first detail, sources reported Tuesday. “We should do something on Friday,” said boyfriend Bryan Vogel, specifying the day of the week on which they will go out, the sole confirmed aspect of their romantic evening that has actually been planned in advance.
This dinner has been planned to more than the first detail.
So what about bodily autonomy?
Thanks, New Wave Feminists, for posting this photo. Well put.
Sunday inspiration
My sister sent me this. Inspiration, condensed, on steroids. Made me laugh. Enjoy
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Freedom of conscience
I just watched this little video from the Christian Medical Dental Society . We all have to get along in a diverse society, and forcing people to do things they don’t believe are right isn’t the way to go. Neither does conscientious objection always have to do with with religion. There have been longstanding feminist concerns about the birth control pill, for example.
Since freedom of conscience and religion is enshrined in our constitution, I’m not really clear on how this case can lose, but I’ll leave the prognosticating to the lawyers.
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The War of Art
A friend passed on this fantastic little book to me, The War of Art. It’s not just about overcoming procrastination, it’s about doing what truly makes you tick.
Esquire calls it “A vital gem . . . a kick in the ass.”
And don’t we all need both (gems, and a kick in the ass) every once in a while? I highly recommend.
PS I wrote this post while procrastinating from what I was really supposed to be doing.
How do you spell hypocrisy?
Turns out it’s spelled “Fern Hill.” Fern Hill is a blogger. A bossy, brash blogger, who doesn’t like people like me and often singles me out, met with much gleeful sarcasm from her minions. I asked her for a coffee a while back, simply to see that we are both people (it was not an effort to make her pro-life, goodness me, no). She said no.
She is busy tweeting the names of all the members of the Christian Medical Dental Society:
@CMDSCanada are shy about divulging members but want to impose their values on us. Know any members? Post names with#PatientRights tag.
Meanwhile, Fern Hill is a pseudonym. I just wanted to name this hypocrisy. Especially since “Fern Hill” has made a blogging living on spotting the purported hypocrisy in others.
My name–my real name–is Andrea Mrozek, and when you have questions or concerns–you know where to find me.
Fern Hill. But not the Fern Hill who does the blogging, you’ll note. This grassy knoll isn’t so mean.
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