So I'm skimming the childfree groups today and I find this piece of insanity: This chyk, 19 years old, does not want children. She's trying to get a Mirena IUD, and is talking about her doctor, who she says is great and is going to great lengths to help her get this IUD: <\/p>\n
“She also worked hard to find an in-network doctor who would be willing to put one in once I had been with my boyfriend for six months.<\/em>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Buh?<\/p>\n
OK, great, the doc is listening to her patient and helping her get the health care she needs. But can someone please<\/em> tell me just what the bloody fuck her boyfriend<\/em><\/strong> has to do with Her. Reproductive. Decision? And why does it matter that she's been with him for six months??<\/p>\n
Why yes, I am<\/em> still pissed off about having to sign a bloody permission slip<\/em> for my husband to get his vasectomy three years ago. Never mind the hemming and hawing I<\/em> got when I broached the subject of getting sterilized with the last poke'n'prod doc I went to – at thirty-eight years old.<\/p>\n
But what if you change your miiiiiiiiiind?!?<\/em><\/p>\n
You think I'd get that song and dance if I walked into an OB\/GYN at 20 years old and said I wanted to get pregnant?<\/p>\n
You think that maybe, just maybe, at 30-freaking-9 years old I might know<\/em> that I do not want to bear and\/or raise a child, period? That if I had<\/em> any semblance of “maternal instinct” that it would have kicked in by now?<\/p>\n
But it's different when it's your owwwn!<\/em><\/p>\n
Yeah, I'm sure it is. But you know what? Sometimes “different” isn't “better”. <\/p>\n
Bah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So I'm skimming the childfree groups today and I find this piece of insanity: This chyk, 19 years old, does not want children. She's trying to get a Mirena IUD, and is talking about her doctor, who she says is great and is going to great lengths to help her get this IUD: “She also worked hard to find an in-network doctor who would be willing to put one in once I had been with my boyfriend for six months.“ Buh? OK, great, the doc is listening to her patient and helping her get the health care she needs. But can someone please tell me just what the bloody fuck her boyfriend has to do with Her. Reproductive. Decision? And why does it matter that she's been with him for six months?? Why yes, I am still pissed off about having to sign a bloody permission slip for my husband to get his vasectomy three years ago. Never mind the hemming and hawing I got when I broached the subject of getting sterilized with the last poke'n'prod doc I went to – at thirty-eight years old. But what if you change your miiiiiiiiiind?!? You think I'd get that song and dance if I walked into an OB\/GYN at 20 years old and said I wanted to get pregnant? You think that maybe, just maybe, at 30-freaking-9 years old I might know that I do not want to bear and\/or raise a child, period? That if I had any semblance of “maternal instinct” that it would have kicked in by now? But it's different when it's your owwwn! Yeah, I'm sure it is. But you know what? Sometimes “different” isn't “better”. Bah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}