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New Apps Let Women Obtain Birth Control Without Visiting a Doctor
HughPickens.com writes: With nearly 40 percent of all pregnancies in the United States unintended, birth control is a critical public health issue. For short-term methods, visiting the doctor for a prescription can be time-consuming and sometimes costly and for some, like teenagers, it can be intimidating or embarrassing. Now Pam Belluck reports at the NYT that a growing assortment of new apps and websites now make it possible to get prescription contraceptives without going to the doctor as public health experts hope the new apps will encourage more women to start, or restart, using contraception and help reduce the country's stubbornly high rate of unintended pregnancies, as well as the rate of abortions. At least six digital ventures, by private companies and nonprofits, including Planned Parenthood, now provide prescriptions written by clinicians after women answer questions about their health online or by video. All prescribe birth control pills, and some prescribe patches, rings and morning-after pills and some ship contraceptives directly to women's doors. "At first I didn't believe it," said Susan Hashem, who wanted to restart birth control pills without missing work for a doctor's appointment. Hashem used an app called Lemonaid and paid $15 for a doctor to review her medical information and send a pill prescription to a local pharmacy. "I thought it was just a setup to get money," Hashem said. But after she answered the health questions one evening, "a doctor actually contacted me after office hours," and the next morning, she picked up three months' worth of pills.
the last time I threw out my back I had to go see a doc for flexeril. The drive was incredibly painful and the entire thing only served to put $200 bucks in the guys pocket. It was literally less than useless. Add to that the cost keeps a lot of low income people away from meds they already know they need. Mix this with an online pharmacy and people the the deep South surrounded by Bible thumpers trying to keep them away from the evils of Birth Control can finally live the way they want.
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Now for the question: Why is birth control supposed to be necessary?
it's not necessary, it's desired. people like to be able to determine what they are going to do with their life instead being slaves to biological processes. if you disagree with this then you should never take any medications ever even if it's to save your life because it's changing "the natural order of things".
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Mix this with an online pharmacy and people the the deep South surrounded by Bible thumpers trying to keep them away from the evils of Birth Control can finally live the way they want.
Big difference between how they want and how they should.
Quick question: How should they live, and what's your authority for making that judgement?
So is waging war and letting people live on the street, but you don't see many right wingers demand ending that.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It may surprise you, but there are women out there who choose to not have a child and still want to fuck. Guess what, they are human beings and want to enjoy life.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
condoms aren't a medication that intentionally changes the biological function of the person using them.
However, today's women are living a lifestyle that is a huge change from natural biological functioning. Many years ago, a woman was often pregnant or nursing most of her adult life, until menopause - if she lived that long.
Women today go through many many more menses than is natural.
Oddly enough, birth control pills mimic the more natural state. Despite the warnings, which I suspect are put there to satisfy the puritanical - kind of like whenever they find that alcohol in moderation is beneficial, they have to add that scientists are trying to find the miracle ingredient in grapes or barley.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
You know, sometimes one of the two people doesn't have a choice in the matter.
Religious fanatics are not interested even in what their own holy books say. They are not interested in right or wrong. They are into suppressing anything that disagreed with their own perverted world view and in exercising power. If you want to find the worst of the worst in the human race, you need look no further.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Better education trumps technical advancement. Who would have thought.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"Europeans are off the chart left. Socialism will never work."
Your fire and car insurance seem to do just fine with such a socialist ideas, so does the US postal system, military defense, highways, fire department, bridges, garbage collection, public libraries (Those are large houses of stone where people go to read stuff)
and a few dozen other ones.
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