http://blog.nationalpartnership.org/index.php/2010/12/how-far-have-we-come/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:54:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.nationalpartnership.org/index.php/2010/12/how-far-have-we-come/comment-page-1/#comment-20531 Jody Ward Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:39:07 +0000 http://blog.nationalpartnership.org/?p=876#comment-20531 Please explain how you consider affordable access to the pill a necessary component of "healthcare" when the World Health Organization considers it a Class 1 carcinogen. Please explain how you consider affordable access to the pill a necessary component of “healthcare” when the World Health Organization considers it a Class 1 carcinogen.

]]> http://blog.nationalpartnership.org/index.php/2010/12/how-far-have-we-come/comment-page-1/#comment-16599 Brody Witt Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:15:14 +0000 http://blog.nationalpartnership.org/?p=876#comment-16599 As much as I respect the choices women are able to make in planning their lives, I don't see a full spectrum of those choices in this or most other emails and requests I receive from so many reproductive rights organizations. The choices of when and how many children are not the only viable ones. Women like myself, who choose to never have children, are almost always ignored in the language that is used. My only conclusion is that repro rights groups are so fearful that the cause will be interpreted to mean that women want to abandon their female obligation of breeding that it can't even be mentioned. It is an unfortunate way to deal with a broad-scoped issue and isolates many women from the cause. I hope that this is taken into consideration for future emails, etc. With all due respect, Childless by Choice As much as I respect the choices women are able to make in planning their lives, I don’t see a full spectrum of those choices in this or most other emails and requests I receive from so many reproductive rights organizations. The choices of when and how many children are not the only viable ones. Women like myself, who choose to never have children, are almost always ignored in the language that is used. My only conclusion is that repro rights groups are so fearful that the cause will be interpreted to mean that women want to abandon their female obligation of breeding that it can’t even be mentioned. It is an unfortunate way to deal with a broad-scoped issue and isolates many women from the cause. I hope that this is taken into consideration for future emails, etc.
With all due respect,
Childless by Choice

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