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Wacky WaPo puts article on Reproductive Coercion under its ON FAITH heading

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Doctors warn against ’reproductive coercion’ – The Washington Post.

Of considerable amusement is the placement of an article on reproductive coercion (which does not mention faith or religion)  under the “On Faith” heading.  Perhaps the WaPo editors could explain that.

The article goes on to explain the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists big concern that men might be coercing women to get pregnant by refusing to use condoms, inducing condom failure, or tugging out the IUD.  It goes on to suggest means by which this can be thwarted, including having a stash of the not very effective morning after pills.

Would the ACOG like to include itself under this warning about reproductive coercion?  ACOG and affiliates  have been marketing pills and other birth control modalities to women, thereby eliciting massive changes in behavioral trends.    Of extreme importance is the fact that the birth control methods which women are encouraged to rely on, are not nearly as effective in actual use as they are claimed to be in “perfect use”.  This has lead to  millions of unplanned pregnancies, and millions of abortions.
Reproductive coercion has been the result as the  ACOG seemingly fails to acknowledge   that a natural consequence of the kind of sex which makes babies is …….. BABIES!!!

It would be encouraging to see the ACOG and so-called women’s advocacy groups show a bit more interest in reducing sex slavery, sexual abuse of minors, coercion and incest, even though that might reduce the need for their services.   Those golden handcuffs seem to be an impediment.

Huffpost Pro-abort Screamers Cry About Standard Determination of Gestational Age

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Arizona Abortion Bill: Legislators Pass Three Bills, Including One That Redefines When Life Begins.

Pharmer sometimes  feels that the reflex for breathing in leftists is connected to the reflex for lying.   The above Huff Po headline is the kind of thing which feeds this notion.

Physicians calculate gestational age from the time of the last missed period.  It’s an easier thing to do than guess the exact time of fertilization, to mark the beginning of life.   When Arizona legislators used this definition in a bill to define a limit of the age at which pre-born humans can be aborted,  John Celock shrieked that they are redefining when life begins…… two weeks before conception, he says.   (That would be an average.)   But Celock doesn’t realize that he fell off of the birth control bandwagon.   In his article he unwittingly re-connects conception with fertilization,  (as it always had been before the need to sell birth control pills.)   He forgot that the  ACOG and others  had  muddied the conception term,  and also the pregnancy term, to indicate the time of implantation  (about a week after fertilization).  This was to make the birth control pills  (all of which have  multiple mechanisms of action, some of which prevent implantation) more acceptable to women.

Pharmer notes that the left has never been able to get itself coordinated to accept  that  conception and pregnancy terms apply only after implantation.   Perhaps even they can’t totally  accept a lie that obvious. But Celock could not resist showing his ignorance of  the standard medical practice for estimating fetal age and time of expected delivery, with his dishonest headline.