They try to push risky homonal birth control to all poor women in the South who are on public assistance because it is, at least temporarily, irreversible. They tried to get me to take Depo Provera and I refused. (That's the shot that lasts for three months - it can have some awful side effects.) I told them I was nursing and didn't want to transmit the drug to my child. "Oh, it won't hurt him, it's just birth control and so he'll just be getting birth control!" I said he didn't need birth control and I just got that look - the one that says "Oh, you just want to have a lot of babies so you can get more welfare." Not that I was on welfare or anything, but that is how they see poor women - all uneducated breeders looking to milk the government for all its worth.
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Date: 2005-05-05 06:00 pm (UTC)