Letters to the Editor
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argh
This makes me want to scream. I used to dream of working at the CDC, because of all its good public health work. But it's clear that the wingnuts have taken over.
The first doctor who says anything about this to me is going to get an earful about government propaganda -- followed by a reminder that (a) my tubes are tied, and (b) because of medical issues, in the very unlikely event that I did get pregnant, I'd have an abortion, no questions asked.
Of course, I do have a friend who's a doctor, who works mostly with poor, Catholic women, who insists that any patient who could get pregnant and refuses to use contraception start taking prenatal vitamins. She does this because there is about a 50% probability that such a woman will be pregnant at her next appointment. This is something my friend does *with this particular population of women* because the risk of unplanned pregnancy is so high.