{"id":1342,"date":"2004-07-11T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2004-07-11T17:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2004-07-11T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2004-07-11T17:34:57","slug":"im-so-disappoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/07\/im-so-disappoin\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m so disappointed in <i>Prevention<\/i> magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fructusventris.stblogs.org\/archives\/016456.html\">Alicia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawneden.com\/2004_07_01_archive.html#108866078452640882\">Dawn Eden<\/a> have both blogged about Prevention&#8217;s little screed attacking the growing number of doctors, pharmacists, and other health professionals who, disgusted at the idea of participating in silent abortions, are declining to prescribe, or fill prescriptions for, the Pill.  <a title=\"Heart, Mind &#038; Strength - Blog Admin Panel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.exceptionalmarriages.com\/weblog\/BlogDetail.asp?ID=16099\">Kevin Miller points out that<\/a> the Pill is far from being the silver bullet in women&#8217;s health care &#8212; it&#8217;s more like the lazy doctor&#8217;s band-aid:  &#8220;As my physician acquaintances ask, where is the article&#8217;s mention of women who take OCPs only because of &#8220;pro-Pill&#8221; doctors&#8217; ignorance, negligence, deceit, and\/or pressure? of what &#8220;anti-Pill&#8221; doctors do provide to women?&#8221;<br \/>\nI know for myself that in the eight years I&#8217;ve been seeking treatment for my own hormone disorders, the only real treatment I&#8217;ve ever gotten has been from NFP-only doctors.  Of the secular set, I think my favorite was the endocrinologist who cheerfully said, &#8220;Well, if you want to get pregnant, we can do IVF, and if you don&#8217;t, we&#8217;ll put you on the Pill.&#8221;  I wish I had had the presence of mind to stand up and stalk out of the office.  My second favorite is probably the nice doctor from Georgetown &#8220;In the <s>Catholic<\/s> Jesuit tradition&#8221; University Hospital who told me that I needed to just get used to having cycles lasting forty to fifty days, and not to worry until they got to sixty days long, in which case she would give me a pill to force a new cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alicia and Dawn Eden have both blogged about Prevention&#8217;s little screed attacking the growing number of doctors, pharmacists, and other health professionals who, disgusted at the idea of participating in silent abortions, are declining to prescribe, or fill prescriptions for, the Pill. Kevin Miller points out that the Pill is far from being the silver&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/07\/im-so-disappoin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m so disappointed in <i>Prevention<\/i> magazine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-st-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}