A short divergence from fantasy to focus on being a woman in 2012.

I don’t often voice my political views in public forums. Sometimes I repost funny memes about the ridiculous nature of the political landscape. But as I continue to scroll through my social networks the desire to speak gets more and more undeniable.
 
I am a woman. As such, I am outraged at the backward motion of our culture to place women in the subservient position once again. It is becoming clear that government and fanatical Christianity are becoming inseparable. The constitution is just seen as an obsticle in the way of those bent on controlling the bodies of women.

More than just being a woman. I am a woman unable to reproduce. My question is, in this new regimented mindset of governmental control of women’s healthcare, where does that leave my options of controlling a disorder I cannot control without the use of hormonally based medications? I cannot make children, so do the rules of procreation before health apply to me? Or am I just fucked? As a woman unable to be the baby maker politicans want me to be, do I even count. Is my medical condition now a crime according to recent legislation?

I may not be able to take birth control at my age due to high blood pressure, but it is unconscionable to take that option off the table for others battling the same disorder as I fight on a daily basis. I know birth control is only a small part of the trend to limit one’s access to gynecological care. Especially if you are under-insured or uninsured. Which most of the American public is.

I am pro-choice. Period. It should not be permitted for a medical professional to refuse care based on religious beliefs. I am a nurse, if I refuse care to a patient based on cultural or religious issues I will be sued for discrimination. So why is it permitted for a pharmacologist or physician to deny pregnancy prevention care for a woman based soley on the basis of a religious difference of opinion. If I did that I would lose my license.

The landscape of healthcare has been deteriorating in the United States since we have allowed pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies to make all the decisions. Doctors are mostly removed from the process unless it is an acute care situation. The US is the most inefficient society in the world for healthcare. We have the most advanced technology, but are limited by a capitalistic insurance adjuster saying it isn’t medically necessary to utilize the technology based on bottom line costs. We have put our medical decisions in the hands of those schooled in fiscal health not medicine.

Those same bean counters are the ones in Washington pushing legislation to limit access to those they deem unworthy, i.e. uninsured Americans. Then from there they have begun to target women in order to gain further control over the population.

I know this post is more of a rant than a political commentary. I have worked in the medical field for 15 years. I have seen it from many sides. The backsliding of healthcare scares me. As a woman. As an American. As a human.

Here is an article that say it better than I do.

 

While I'm ranting... Do not get me started on gay rights. I will always defend the rights of any human to love another human. I am pro-human. Period.