One thing I think we all can agree on is that if our daughter is pregnant and she doesn't want to be she should get the best abortion care possible. We realize that no amount of contraception or education or "saying no" at this point is going to help. We need "professional abortion care" which is disappearing in America at an alarming rate. It may surprise you to learn there is a crisis occurring when it comes to professional abortion care in this nation. Go to PBS Frontline The Last Abortion Clinic to see a documented example of obstruction of professional abortion care in America. And yet, our American policy makers, including our esteemed presidential hopefuls, refuse to speak substantively about the actual provision of abortion care, as though it happens "magically" as the result of visitation of the "abortion fairy".
Well, those of us with pregnant daughters know better.
But this diary puts our pregnant daughters aside FOR THE MOMENT to consider a novel new form of pregnancy prevention: BLOGGING. Who would of thought? The Daily Kos a form or birth control???
We linger not on concerns of provision of professional abortion care in America in this diary. We do not question where the training to do abortions comes from here. Nor do we concern ourselves with the resources to provide professional abortion care to poor, desperate women (each and everyone who is someone's daughter). Go to When your daughter needs abortion care to get an idea how difficult accessing abortion care in America can be when you need it. We are savvy enough not to look to the state for help as most states are hostile and at every turn do what they can to make abortion care impossible to provide or RECEIVE and in some locales it is even illegal to discuss. To speak of abortion care is illegal in some states. Go to It is illegal for public health units to refer for abortion care to see an example of a gag rule in full force in America TODAY.
In an effort to rise above this abject need and suffering and to look for creative ways to decrease the need for abortion care, we may be on to something revolutionary with this whole blogging effort. I know others have discussed prevention before here and if we, for the moment, forgo assisting our already pregnant daughters who don't want to be and look at PREVENTION, why not present blogging as a form of birth control?
I am an abortion provider in the deep, deep south and every day we see women (each of whom is someone's daughter) who are pregnant and they do not want to be. Blogging might save other women from suffering their plight. Our state government is very hostile to the provision of abortion care and under the Bush regime things have gotten much worse. It feels like we are providing abortion care in a fox hole and it isn't easy. Go to a classic and still timely Mother Jones article entitledThe Quiet War on Abortion to see how systematically states work to make it impossible for clinics to provide care. All the while the "state" espouses it first concern is the health and safety of women. So it comes as quite a shock that for the first time in over 30 years our maternal mortality rate in America has increased. Go here to see the statistics that were just announced by The Center for Disease Control. Hmmm. Oh well, let's work at "preventing pregnancy" as the rest should just work itself out.
Actually the thought of "blogging as birth control" occurred while watching Nancy Giles on CBS Sunday Morning. She was talking about the fact that many Americans have gone bonkers being "connected" what with our Blackberries and laptops and cell phones. And at the end of this summer she asked, "What about vacation...do you even remember what vacation means?" And then she said "don't let high speed access take the place of sex." Well, that is when it hit me. Maybe Nancy Giles is on to something. We always are looking for new and innovative forms of pregnancy prevention...and the nice thing about this is it works for both sexes. It is RARE indeed that you can say that a single form of birth control can be used equally by both men and women. Now we have a breakthrough: BLOGGING.
So gosh, who would of thought? The Daily Kos as a form of birth control. I think I like it!
Reduce unintended pregnancy! SLEEP WITH YOUR LAPTOP...AND SUPPORT RESEARCH FOR A NEW PILLOWTOP VERSION! The welfare of our American daughters depends upon it.