There are a lot of misconceptions about risks associated with OCPs and what risks would actually be mitigated by keeping the prescription-status of them. Both the ACOG and the AAFP have released statements voicing support for OTC oral contraceptives. They are overwhelming safe drugs relative to many other things…

Official medical organizations disagree, actually. Both the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have released statements in favor of making OCPs available over the counter.

Both the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have released statements within the past year announcing their support for making OCPs over the counter.

Are any of these cruelty-free?

Are any of these cruelty-free?

Well, this is definitely the most thoroughly financially backwards kind of legislation that will still somehow be treated as legitimate by all of the in-laws at my next Thanksgiving dinner.

We’ve gone over it a little in med school. Once they’ve found something, doctors are terrible at restraint and patients don’t have a good sense of how dangerous things are. They hear BREAST THING and want it all removed immediately. There’s some angst in the medical community about the excessive number of women opting…

The average patient is so poorly informed about medical testing and the high (emotional and financial) costs of false positives. Celebrities saying shit like this makes it even worse.

My partner did all of the wedding planning because I have a busy life and never wanted a wedding. People are so freaking sexist! The flower company refused to have the account in his name, wouldn’t discuss arrangements over the phone with him, and sent every paper communication addressed to me after we spoke to them…

Not a parent, but I’ve heard a few people say they handle the issue by rewarding their kid for avoiding animal products. So making a deal that if they’re given gelatin candy or something that they get an even better vegan treat for turning it down. At friend’s houses I think most people find it important to let their…

To our credit, though, veganism is a lifestyle beyond diet that has moral implications. So more than fad dieters, vegans given the option do prefer socializing with people who share their values.

I don’t see anything mixed about this metaphor. PETA’s argument is that making a mother whale live in a tank is like making a pregnant woman live in a bathtub. If they made it look like she were actually living in it, then we’d be saying it was gratuitous and graphic.

Got back together with him.

This is sort of an urban myth. PETA runs euthanasia facilities that take transfers from poorer shelters that still use gas chambers and take animal surrenders specifically for euthanasia. They do not really run any extended care facilities, so they definitely have a quick turnaround on animals who they rescue and…

I’m saying these things are complicated and that we brush them under the rug in part because we think elderly people having and enjoying sex is icky. For example, should that person never go on walks again? That would be absurd, because we know that they have enjoyed and continue to enjoy and seek out walks. We know…

I was just talking to someone the other day about the state of mind people with dementia seem to be in! it’s really interesting. Sometimes I think family caregivers read into things differently because they’re actively seeking the most whole person they can find, while professional caregivers sort of take whatever…

I’m getting so frustrated with people’s perspectives on this because it really lacks an understanding of dementia and what it would mean to be in mental decline and not be allowed physical intimacy. Someone with alcohol can be prevented from having sex because we know they’ll be sober tomorrow. However, it’s a lot…

You’re missing the very real complications of a progressive degenerative illness. Someone who is temporarily incapacitated can’t consent. Someone who is gradually losing their faculties retains the right to do basically everything, including have sex and decline medical care. This is a real dilemma with dementia…

As someone who’s worked as a full-time caregiver specifically with dementia patients, I think it is more complicated than people are giving it credit for being. People with dementia are not just suddenly children, and elderly people are very much sexual beings. Patients with dementia retain the right to do things like…

Consent for Alzheimer’s patients is really complicated, and I find is weird that a facility would document that a person is unable to consent to activity when we were strictly told as CNAs that patients engaging is mutually consenting sexual activity was their human right. Sexual assault or abuse is one thing, sexual…

According to her letter “not one of the men used a condom”.