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Jan. 20, 2012 at 12:15pm with 4,264 notes

Reblogged from thecuntmentality

BREAKING: Obama administration approves a rule that essentially guarantees universal contraceptive coverage.

think-progress:

A MAJOR WIN for ~~women’s health~~ reproductive rights!

Fixed that for you.

Love,

Taylor

My mom and I ate Thanksgiving dinner in the cafeteria of the hospital where she works (as a barista). I met a bunch of her coworkers/friends, including a woman who was about four months pregnant and who my mother told me had become pregnant despite already struggling to care for her two young children and despite really, really not wanting to become pregnant. The hospital where they work is a Catholic one (having driven the county hospital out of business years ago) and didn’t cover contraception for their employees; this friend had just scraped together enough money for a doctor’s appointment to get on birth control (no clinics like Planned Parenthood within a few hours’ drive; and the state contraceptive program won’t cover you if you’re insured, even if that insurance is Catholic and won’t cover contraception) when she got pregnant. Because of the social pressures of living in a small town, abortion was not an option from her from the moment she reached out to tell anyone she was pregnant and devastated.

It’s too late to help that woman and loads of others choose their own reproductive lives, but this is such a huge win against institutions like Catholic hospitals that monopolize health care in small towns and then raise costs and employ tons of people when there are no other jobs, effectively forcing tons of poor people to choose between being sexually active ever and controlling their own bodies.