I never could tolerate the pill well, even the triphasal, so I never was on it very long. Time and place for everything, I suppose.

it’s interesting about the pill. that “hostile endometrium” element is there by design. i personally haven’t found any studies re. the question of how often the pill prevents ovulation… so hard to say how that 98% anti-pregnancy effectiveness rate is actually achieved. the 2% or so failure rate indicates ovulation is definitely occurring sometimes. seems a little curious to me that the medicine designers feel a need to include that third mechanism.

i’m not keen on the pill as elective medicine for medical reasons. they pull me up short before i even get to morality. i’m diabetic and do my own insulin… it has led me firmly to believe that you shouldn’t try to operate your body manually if you don’t have to. also have a teensy problem with needing major industrial infrastructure (factories, roads, and trucks) to have sex.

but here is one for you: my above goddaughter is smack in the middle of the physical upheaval of adolescence and has a testosterone/estrogen imbalance. the treatment for this is hormone therapy, i.e. the BC patch. well, the catholic hospital can’t dispense that. it recommended she go to PLANNED PARENTHOOD. you know the place, it’s the one catholics stand outside of, protesting.

boy that made me angry. grr. the other thing i don’t believe in doing, if you don’t have to, is going to a catholic hospital. haha. it’s stuff like this that makes me very anti-regulation.

on the other hand, i feel having a general background *pro-life orientation* transforms your life. things happen entirely differently. if nothing else, embracing life is easier on the nerves than trying to protect yourself from all the possible ills it can bring.

re. the voting pressure: the church is a global institution. this voting pressure, however, i find uniquely american. i also rather feel american catholics have been hoodwinked into it - co-opted during the neo-conservative power play when they were slap-dashing a base together.

anyways, have you heard of the condom full of holes that they use in catholic hospitals when they need a sperm sample? cath. hospitals are a regular riot laugh.

then again, maybe that too is only in america.