New Apps Let Women Obtain Birth Control Without Visiting a Doctor 301
HughPickens.com writes: With nearly 40 percent of all pregnancies in the United States unintended, birth control is a critical public health issue. For short-term methods, visiting the doctor for a prescription can be time-consuming and sometimes costly and for some, like teenagers, it can be intimidating or embarrassing. Now Pam Belluck reports at the NYT that a growing assortment of new apps and websites now make it possible to get prescription contraceptives without going to the doctor as public health experts hope the new apps will encourage more women to start, or restart, using contraception and help reduce the country's stubbornly high rate of unintended pregnancies, as well as the rate of abortions. At least six digital ventures, by private companies and nonprofits, including Planned Parenthood, now provide prescriptions written by clinicians after women answer questions about their health online or by video. All prescribe birth control pills, and some prescribe patches, rings and morning-after pills and some ship contraceptives directly to women's doors. "At first I didn't believe it," said Susan Hashem, who wanted to restart birth control pills without missing work for a doctor's appointment. Hashem used an app called Lemonaid and paid $15 for a doctor to review her medical information and send a pill prescription to a local pharmacy. "I thought it was just a setup to get money," Hashem said. But after she answered the health questions one evening, "a doctor actually contacted me after office hours," and the next morning, she picked up three months' worth of pills.
I'd like to see more of this (Score:4, Insightful)
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Flexeril (cyclobenzaprine) is a dangerous drug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] It's not that effective and I think you were saying it wasn't effective at all.
In some patients, particularly the elderly, it causes confusion, delerium and hallucinations, from which patients take a long time to recover, if they recover at all. An article in JAMA Internal Medicine described how the author's mother died from complications of cyclobenzaprine. http://archinte.jamanetwork.co... [jamanetwork.com] “Mom, you have to trust me
I use Flexeril (Score:2)
I agree a doctor needs to make sure nothing's going wrong, especially with the elderly. But a $15 call on a smart phone and
Quick question (Score:5, Insightful)
Mix this with an online pharmacy and people the the deep South surrounded by Bible thumpers trying to keep them away from the evils of Birth Control can finally live the way they want.
Big difference between how they want and how they should.
Quick question: How should they live, and what's your authority for making that judgement?
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Big difference between how they want and how they should.
Possibly, but most people don't like it when you go all Leviticus on them.
Uneasy About Starting Without a Physician (Score:5, Informative)
I'm strongly in favor of overall greater access to birth control. But I have to say that when it comes to starting any kind of hormonal birth control, I'm uneasy about the idea of doing so without the supervision of a doctor or other medical professional.
In my case I had to go through three different types of pills before I found a pill that worked well for me. The first two left me, well, hormonal and while it wasn't terrible, it also wasn't a pleasant experience. Especially compared to how much better things were once I finally found a pill that worked. There are a number of different pills on the market for a reason; not everyone responds to a given formulation the same way. And this is where the doctor was a great help, as she was able to tell me what was and wasn't normal, use my experiences to suggest other options. I suppose from a technical perspective any pill will do - they all seem to pause fertility - but the side effects can be a real pain.
This is why I'm uneasy about anyone starting a new birth control regimen without supervision. Certainly once you're established and happy, you should be able to get new packs as you please (including ordering extra for trips and such). And this is definitely something that needs to be fixed as it's harder than it should be. But starting without a physician seems like a poor idea to me. I feel like it's doing a disservice to others who will be lead to think the processes is easier than it actually is.
Re:Uneasy About Starting Without a Physician (Score:4, Interesting)
I tend to think of them as being like computer technicians and computer scientists... just because you're practicing as a doctor doesn't mean you don't suck at it. Almost universally, "general practitioners" are the least likely people to go back to school for further education while remaining isolated in their own practice.
No thank you! I'd honestly rather read a book/web page and just risk it. Takes less time and if I break myself at least I didn't have to have some guy grab my balls and say cough
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This is why I'm uneasy about anyone starting a new birth control regimen without supervision
Who said anything about without supervision? And why would said supervision require you to say ahh and have something stuck down your throat.
They ask the same questions and put you on your prescription. If it doesn't work for you, go to a doctor. You're no worse off than before and definitely no less supervised, unless you have some special doctor which follows you around all day and makes house calls for you.
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They ask the same questions and put you on your prescription. If it doesn't work for you, go to a doctor. You're no worse off than before and definitely no less supervised, unless you have some special doctor which follows you around all day and makes house calls for you.
The main risk of hormonal contraceptives is having a stroke. If you make a mistake, and have a stroke, you could wind up with half your body paralyzed for the rest of your life.
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It's the lesser or two evils. Ideally you would go to a doctor, but if for some reason you can't or unwilling to then an app is better than unwanted pregnancy.
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It helps if you read the article. You *are* under the care of a physician. Furthermore, when starting someone on birth control, 99% of the time I start with the same pill (Sprintec - monophasic, cheap, widely available, and generally well tolerated), and if not tolerated, use trial and error to find other pills that work. For the majority of my patients, the process is as easy as: 1. Ask for OCP prescription 2. Fill Sprintec prescription 3. Go on with life.
In many European countries, birth control is over t
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The biggest problem I could identify with those apps is that the most effective contraceptives require a doctor's visit.
The most effective contraceptives are the implant with a failure rate of 0.05% per year. The pills are pretty far down with 5-10%. https://www.cdc.gov/reproducti... [cdc.gov] http://www.ashasexualhealth.or... [ashasexualhealth.org]
Critical public health issue (Score:3)
With nearly 40 percent of all pregnancies in the United States unintended, birth control is a critical public health issue.
Wow, that statement really makes you want to click and read the text. It's emotional and powerful.
While an unintended pregnancy is a serious issue, note that the US fertility rate [google.com] is now 1.88 births per woman. The replacement rate for population is about 2.1 (births per woman, depends on the geographical area: percentage of births that live to adulthood).
If we can eliminate the 40% of all births that are unintended, the US population would drop off a cliff. This is already a problem for many areas such as Japan [google.com] and Germany [google.com].
The term critical [dictionary.com] means "pertaining to or of the nature of a crisis", with "crisis" being " time when a difficult or important decision must be made" (with reference to: emergency, catastrophe, calamity, and doomsday).
This is an improvement and one I heartily support.
Nevertheless, calling the situation a "crisis" is a bit melodramatic... don't you think?
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If universal, perfectly reliable contraception were available, perhaps breeding would become something like greatly prolonged jury duty: No-one wants to do it, but someone has to endure the personal inconvenience to keep society running.
Or maybe we'd see a sort of cultural Idiocracy? Natural selection in humans would take a very, very long time - but cultural selection can be potentially much more rapid. If the well-educated liberal couples have 1.0 women per child, and the backwards superstitious hicks hav
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I'm sure if the state covers all expenses involved in raising a kid you'll get plenty of volunteers, no need to draft people.
Re:Critical public health issue (Score:4, Interesting)
Everything has ups and downs.
Is a falling population a tragedy.
Lower costs of education, childcare, probably crime...
The cost of supporting 'old people' in terms of healthcare and retirement based on younger workers sounds like a reason to have more kids... but last I checked, jobs in general are a problem in most countries.
It's not magical young people that pay taxes... it's young people with good jobs.
And if the government is going to be spending money to create jobs for young people and stimulate the economy, are you really in any worse position to just spend that money taking care of old people directly.
You have issues with a falling population. But it's not kind of automatic crises. Certain industries will face problems. There are powerful lobbies as well.... banking, housing, mortgages... that depend on population growth as well.
apples 30% cut is to high and an app base medical (Score:2)
apples 30% cut is to high and an app base medical planes under the ADA can't spend that much on admin.
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Don't buy this chewing gum - it tastes like rubber.
keep the cartel in the loop (Score:2)
The money grubbing health cartel gets to keep their mitts in the loop this way; in plenty of countries one can walk into a store and buy birth control pills with nothing needed but money (and about a tenth of what is required here). The benefits of allowing that for the majority far outweigh any risks to a very few (cue med student who will wail the standard B.S. against why that shouldn't be allowed, but those concerns don't apply to 99%+).
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Abortion is inhuman... get it... in human... hahahahahaha
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We need to stop the abortion. it's just horrible and inhuman.
Here in Arizona we don't use Bibles to stop abortions. We prefer prenatal carry.
Re: We need to stop the abortion. it's just horrib (Score:2)
Re:We need to stop the abortion. it's just horribl (Score:5, Insightful)
So is waging war and letting people live on the street, but you don't see many right wingers demand ending that.
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So is waging war and letting people live on the street, but you don't see many right wingers demand ending that.
The funny thing is that the Bible says we should live in peace, forgive our enemies, and help the poor. It says nothing about abortion. The story of Essau and Jacob implies that life begins at birth, not conception.
Re:We need to stop the abortion. it's just horribl (Score:5, Informative)
There is exactly one reference to abortion in the bible. It's in Numbers 5, and it details the process for performing an abortion if you believe your wife has been unfaithful.
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There is exactly one reference to abortion in the bible. It's in Numbers 5, and it details the process for performing an abortion if you believe your wife has been unfaithful.
Only if you twist the text to fit a pro-abortion viewpoint.
What Numbers 5 actually says is that a man should take a wife suspected of adultery to a priest, who will perform a ritual called the "ordeal of the bitter water". If she is innocent, she'll be fine, but if she's guilty it will cause her belly to swell, her thigh to rot and she will become a curse among her people. Some interpret this to mean that she'll die. Some believe that because "thigh" is occasionally used as a euphemism for reproductive or
Re: We need to stop the abortion. it's just horrib (Score:2)
"ordeal of the bitter water".
There are a number of herbs that have been used to induce miscarriage since ancient times (slippery elm and black cohosh come to mind); perhaps that's what it's a reference to.
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"ordeal of the bitter water".
There are a number of herbs that have been used to induce miscarriage since ancient times (slippery elm and black cohosh come to mind); perhaps that's what it's a reference to.
Nope. Go read it. No herbs involved. At most it's a little bit of ink from when the written curses are washed off in holy water.
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"thigh" is translated from a word that, elsewhere in the text, clearly refers to reproductive organs. It's an abortion.
The ordeal involves taking a brew prepared by the priests. I suspect we have only half the ritual - the other half was passed from priest to priest, saying which herbs to put in the brew.
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Exodus 21:22-23 makes it abundantly clear that killing a fetus is not at all the same as killing a person. If the fetus is accidentally killed, the person responsible has to pay a fine. But if the woman dies, the person responsible faces the death penalty.
Clearly, the lives of the fetus and the woman are viewed as very different.
(Not that I actually believe any of the crap in the Bible, but it's at least worth knowing what's in there.)
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Actually, the Bible does talk about abortion:
Numbers 5:27
“If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse."
So it's ok to get an abortion if it's not her husband's child. Words of the Bible (not mine, I couldn't come up with such sick insanity).
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Religious fanatics are not interested even in what their own holy books say. They are not interested in right or wrong. They are into suppressing anything that disagreed with their own perverted world view and in exercising power. If you want to find the worst of the worst in the human race, you need look no further.
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Actually it says both, but if you're not an Ancient Hebrew, the slaughter, foreskins, and slavery don't apply to you. See Acts 15 for details.
Re:We need to stop the abortion. it's just horribl (Score:5, Informative)
Meanwhile back on planet Earth, the US has been tangled up in the middle east (this time) since well before Obama was elected - I suppose you conveniently forgot which party was in power then, no?
Re: We need to stop the abortion. it's just horrib (Score:3)
I suppose you conveniently forgot which party was in power then, no?
Since they're effectively the same fucking party, that should be quite understandable.
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So, how long do the democrats have to hold total power until they actually start being responsible for bad stuff they do, and can't just blame republicans? 20 years? 100? 1000?
The Democrats would be responsible for starting any war they actually start. Its not that hard to figure out. Wars which are cleaning up the mess of previous administrations can certainly last decades, as it did during the Vietnam War. I'd agree that after about 50 years you could no longer blame the original administration which started the war, but that is an arbitrary figure.
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I'm European, from my point of view your democrats ARE right wingers. The GOP is just off the chart.
Re: We need to stop the abortion. it's just horrib (Score:5, Insightful)
"Europeans are off the chart left. Socialism will never work."
Your fire and car insurance seem to do just fine with such a socialist ideas, so does the US postal system, military defense, highways, fire department, bridges, garbage collection, public libraries (Those are large houses of stone where people go to read stuff)
and a few dozen other ones.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/... [dailykos.com]
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Meanwhile, on planet Earth, Obama (hardly a "right winger") is going to go down in history as the first president to have been effectively at war for 8 solid years.
This is only almost true because US presidents have not had a good track record of staying in power for 8 solid years during times of extended warfare. But it isn't true anyway, since Woodrow Wilson was in power for 8 years during the US occupation of Nicaragua, which lasted 19 years spanning his entire presidency. Theodore Roosevelt was in power for 8 years during the Moro Rebellion, which lasted 14 years spanning his entire presidency.
And if you count the American Indian Wars, every President with an eigh
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So, you support making contraception widely available.
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But a pregnant woman poisoning their unborn child for nine straight months while she smokes or does drugs is humane? That is acceptable but not having a child isn't?
What about obese women who are pregnant? There are many physical and mental defects which can occur because of obesity yet we are now supposed to celebrate it despite the lifelong pain and discomfort it may foist on a child.
Tell me, isn't the poisoning of a child a crim
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Oh, and when we do that we need to stop all sex without contraception! The thing you are obviously not aware of is that most fertilized eggs die, hence the very act of fertilizing eggs is "horrible and inhuman" according to nil-whits such as you.
Re: We need to stop the abortion. it's just horrib (Score:5, Insightful)
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stinks of organized censorship
Modding down is censorship now? Man you're on a roll today.
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Pointing out cases you'd rather conveniently ignore is not "moronic", and someone claiming thusly stinks of being a dimwit.
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Only if you stick with the 'on its own.' The age of viability has been steadily creeping down due to improved medical technology. Given enough time it'll eventually hit zero, when we are able to grow placental mammals in jars.
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"Sure we can, we make up classifications all the time in science. For instance, one possibility could be when the fetus can live on its own outside the womb. "
On its own? These times that usually means between the age of 35 and 40.
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http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/W... [rationalwiki.org]
Your own logic can even be turned against you because there isn't a single moment of fertilization. It can take up to four days for a sperm and egg to form a zygote. You can never gi
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Dude, science is nothing if not arbitrary.
Do you understand the scientific method? Do you know what a hypothesis is?
Science is not special. It is merely the latest in a series of educated guesses which haven't yet been disproven. I'm sorry if that doesn't fit in with your desire for ultimate certainty, but don't blame me--I didn't do it.
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Feel free to demonstrate the objective scientific point of transition from "not human" to "human". It doesn't, and can't, exist within the context of biology.
Therefore, if you don't accept that life begins at conception, there is no scientific point at which you can claim such a transition has happened for you -at all-, and logical consistency requires that you agree society should likewise be free to kill you at will.
Conception is a process. Biologically, there is no "moment of conception" as the Catholics like to pretend. Sometimes the egg implants first, sometimes the sperm fertilizes it first, and so on. There is no set order for all the various steps that take place during conception. (Some orderings have better success rates than others, but none have a 0% chance... Oh, and about 50% of all conceptions are spontaneously aborted without any human interference. Who should we blame those on?) It's impossible to say li
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That's the new business model nowadays: create a cool app to inject yourself between buyers and sellers, lower expectations on both sides, get a cut in the process and call it "disruptive".
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Why do I have to pay to answer a checklist to get medication
One of the main risks is that hormonal pills cause blood clots, which lead to strokes and sometimes to death.
It's a risk on the order of 1 in 10,000 or 1 in 100,000 a year, but if you multiply that by the number of women taking hormonal pills, that's a lot of strokes and deaths. It's increased by smoking, and by certain diseases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
In principle you could have a checklist or online algorithm for people to follow that would give them the same advice that a doctor would give them
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You might want to add that the main reason they use human senses instead of expensive machinery and tests is due to availability reasons...
Re:We need more physician assistants (Score:5, Interesting)
And then you could add that the life expectancy in Cuba is higher than the U.S., and the infant mortality is lower.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1... [nejm.org]
A Different Model -- Medical Care in Cuba
Edward W. Campion, M.D., and Stephen Morrissey, Ph.D.
N Engl J Med 2013; 368:297-299
January 24, 2013
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1215226
This highly structured, prevention-oriented system has produced positive results. Vaccination rates in Cuba are among the highest in the world. The life expectancy of 78 years from birth is virtually identical to that in the United States. The infant mortality rate in Cuba has fallen from more than 80 per 1000 live births in the 1950s to less than 5 per 1000 â" lower than the U.S. rate, although the maternal mortality rate remains well above those in developed countries and is in the middle of the range for Caribbean countries.3,4 Without doubt, the improved health outcomes are largely the result of improvements in nutrition and education, which address the social determinants of health. Cuba's literacy rate is 99%, and health education is part of the mandatory school curriculum. A recent national program to promote acceptance of men who have sex with men was designed in part to reduce rates of sexually transmitted disease and improve acceptance of and adherence to treatment. Cigarettes can no longer be obtained with monthly ration cards, and smoking rates have decreased, though local health teams say it remains difficult to get smokers to quit. Contraception is free and strongly encouraged. Abortion is legal but is seen as a failure of prevention.
Re:We need more physician assistants (Score:4, Insightful)
Better education trumps technical advancement. Who would have thought.
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Are they also taught alchemy, voodoo, and homeopathy?
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They should be, because so-called scientific medicine is a white male construct.
Alternative answer: they probably are, if some silly bugger is willing to pay them for it.
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"Are they also taught alchemy, voodoo, and homeopathy?"
Only those who video-consult to L.A.
Re:Why is birth control necessary? (Score:5, Insightful)
Now for the question: Why is birth control supposed to be necessary?
it's not necessary, it's desired. people like to be able to determine what they are going to do with their life instead being slaves to biological processes. if you disagree with this then you should never take any medications ever even if it's to save your life because it's changing "the natural order of things".
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"The fact that it is WIDELY subsidized by the government implies the 'necessity'."
Eh? The government also subsidizes the arts and sports.
"Why is it more important to sacrifice your instincts, the substance of your being, that which led to the formation of your body, for momentary respite from pressures from society?"
Eh? Where's the sacrifice? Women can choose to have children when they have a financial and relationship stability. I'm going to take a wild guess and assume you're a man who do
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The fact that it is WIDELY subsidized by the government implies the 'necessity'.
That has to be the worst use of logic I've ever seen. Lets point to all the places where it's not subisides and that otherwise have no problem and show that clearly it's not a necessity at all. The government subsidises industry to match policy, nothing more nothing less. The existence of a subsidy doesn't make anything anymore of a necessity than absence makes it a desire.
Accepting the role of your biological processes is not "enslavement".
You're naturally enslaved by anything that limits your being. This is why we have vasectomies. It's also why we augment ourselves in env
Re:Why is birth control necessary? (Score:5, Insightful)
It may surprise you, but there are women out there who choose to not have a child and still want to fuck. Guess what, they are human beings and want to enjoy life.
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They want to fuck in the same way that you want to serve fries and mop floors.
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Seriously, are you such a worthless little shit stain you think that YOUR opinion means a damn thing to anyone, much less should be the driving guide to how everyone else lives? Because your nuts haven't dropped yet doesn't mean jack shit to anyone else.
Re:Why is birth control necessary? (Score:4, Interesting)
there are women out there who choose to not have a child and still want to fuck
I can think of one group of women like that. Whores. Prostitutes. What other ones can you think of?
A) Everyone else.
And a question for you: what is wrong with you that you think women enjoying sex fall into the category of "Whores"? And you even needed to repeat the point: "Prostitutes".
They're a far better class of person than you are, sir.
Re: Why is birth control necessary? (Score:2)
And the ability to use conscious decisions instead of just following instincts is what differs humans from the rest of the animals. Insisting that only instincts matter makes you subhuman.
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Really? You asked every women and they all came back with having that deep rooted feeling that they want kids? Wow.
You're a liar. I know women who you obviously did not interview.
Quite opposite, you are one of those people who tell people how they are supposed to feel and what they are supposed to think. You are one despicable, horrible waste of oxygen.
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I'm very happily married, and both my wife and I think you're full of shit.
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So... men who like fucking for leisure are by default Johns? Did I get that right?
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Every women [sic] has a need based in deep instinct to have children
What a piece of bullshit. I know plenty of women who have absolutely no desire for children and are really happy they don't have any. Unlike axewolf, some people do recognize that they're probably not cut out to be good parents.
what we have on this site are a bunch of totally insecure immasculated cuckholds that vehemently adhere to feminist propaganda
Well, that's better than a fucked-up misogynist with a Madonna/whore complex.
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Are the babies going to starve? Are they going to be deprived of education?
Uhhh... yes actually. Have you not heard of the plight of inner city school systems? Or that people like you are desperately trying to reduce welfare benefits for poor mothers that are "stealing your tax money"? You can't possibly think that it is easy to have a baby when you are a single mother making minimum wage, with no family support to help you out. Conservatives seem to care a whole lot about babies until they are actually born, then whatever, fuck 'em. Birth control is about choices.
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Conservatives do have a solution for single mothers: Incentivise them to get married. Marriages is a magic cure-all. It boost church attendance, improves education, reduces the crime rate, increases income and improves health. But only if you're straight, of course.
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Almost ANYONE with a college education can teach.
This is a laughably stupid comment. You have obviously never worked with children or talked to someone that is a teacher. It is an incredibly difficult job that most people are not cut out for. Knowing something and being able to effectively teach it to children, whose brains are at various stages of development, are two entirely different things.
You are advocating population control in a situation where the birth rate is far below replacement.
Population control implies that someone is telling you not to have children. I am advocating women having the ability to choose for themselves. If you had to
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The point is some people enjoy sex and don't want kids. It's not your place to tell them how to live their lives.
You should be off having kids. Assuming you can find a partner.
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I do know a woman who had an abortion when she just couldn't care for a child, and had four children once life became more stable. I suspect that's more people in the world, net.
However, I'll tell you one thing common to all aborted fetuses: they're unwanted. Being an unwanted child, which the fetus will become, is not a good thing.
There's plenty of food for all, OK, but it's not distributed to everyone. Changing that would require some massive changes in society and the economy. Communities do n
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Are you advocating apps which help kill people?
Are you simply trying to make a comment which draws in argument by offending as many people as possible?
Are you a member of a group of people who feels persecuted (we all do at some point)?
Are you suggesting that preventing conception is killing a baby?
Was your point able to be made without trying to use an entire catalog of offensive slurs?
Could instead of "
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So that's why I can't get laid, I'm too smart?
Yeah, I'll go with that.
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But ... but ... I'm drooling over the cell phone!
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Pro-tip: drooling isn't really as attractive as you may think.
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Who's forcing anyone? When was the last time you saw someone hold a woman at gunpoint to make her take her pill?
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I've watched a few videos of the current batch of feminists (mostly for giggles, they're taking over from the religious nuts as the most entertaining batshit insane on YouTube), but so far none of them really complained about the Pill and "having" to use it.
Though it would sure be fun to watch one of them argue against it, I have to give you that.
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Oh this is gold. Please tell me where you got that bullshit from.
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I don't care where he got it from, I just want to see him in Thunderdome going head to head with Roman Mir.
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Then we should maybe find out why people don't want to have kids instead of forcing them to have some.
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For me at least:
1) They're expensive as all fuck. I had to take out a ton of student loans and now have a lot of debt. I'm comfortable, but even on my and my wife's salary, having a kid would make us considerably less comfortable.
2) I don't want the responsibility. I like being able to go to a concert or sporting event on a snap decision instead of having to worry about who might watch my kid or having to take them with me.
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The first is really the big one. The second? Well we haven't had a real war in two or three generations where the possibility of large swaths of the male population getting wiped out is a real problem either. Especially here in the west. That also causes a lower birthrate.
There's a third point you missed, and that's due to lifestyle changes itself. Unlike ye olde days(~130 years ago), when 8 kids was the norm because you lived in the rural areas. Needed the kids to help out, there was a 40% mortality
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There's always a period of explosive population growth - after modern medical, food production and sanitation technology is introduced, but before the culture adapts and lowers birth rate accordingly. The developed nations of the world had their growth spurt, and are now past it. Other countries are still transitioning.
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Mystery solved.
Gramscian Damage [ibiblio.org]
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Is there a tl;dr version of that drivel? It looks like it ain't worth my time.
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1. Observe a child.
2. Research complete.
Re:The Free World is in demographic decline (Score:4, Interesting)
Having children, to a point, is a long-term benefit to society but so many people vocally resent having their money spent to help with the burden that goes along with children. Any discussion of maternity leave will have tons of people saying things like, "why do you get time off for having a baby and I don't get time off because I choose not to." Bottom line, people are too selfish.
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condoms aren't a medication that intentionally changes the biological function of the person using them.
However, today's women are living a lifestyle that is a huge change from natural biological functioning. Many years ago, a woman was often pregnant or nursing most of her adult life, until menopause - if she lived that long.
Women today go through many many more menses than is natural.
Oddly enough, birth control pills mimic the more natural state. Despite the warnings, which I suspect are put there to satisfy the puritanical - kind of like whenever they find that alcohol in moderation is beneficial, they
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No, he didn't. The NRA was a commission set up by congress and chaired by Clarence Darrow.
The myth that "FDR sent dry cleaners to jail" is from neoliberal and far-right websites that are looking for reasons to smear one of the most popular presidents in US history.
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let's compare sources.
You say:
The NRA was a commission set up by congress and chaired by Clarence Darrow.
Wikipedia says:
The National Recovery Administration was a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933. The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices.
As for that myth of dry cleaners sent to jail, just google the guy's fucking name: Jacob Maged.
Of course newspapers of the time who reported he story (like the chicago tribune) were all part of that conspiracy of neoliberal websites that just wanted to smear the name of that great President.
http://archives.chicagotribune... [chicagotribune.com]
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but FDR kept the U.S. from becoming a Fascist country.
Only according to the official narrative and only if you're unable to understand what's occurred over the past hundred-plus years. For fuck's sake, he's a Roosevelt; they're right up there with the Rockefellers in the insidious dept...
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Don't believe everything you read, Sonny.
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It's called not having sex.
Oh, brilliant. You get married (if you're not already) and stop having sex. See how much you like that.
I love sex. But I already have enough kids. I don't want more. So to hell with anyone who wants to tell me how to live my life.
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The problem with your theory (aside from the fact that it's 6 days, not 3) is that you assume that the responsibility in these matters is solely the woman's.
This ignores rapists and persistent husbands/boyfriends who don't feel like waiting a whole week and who don't have to worry about getting pregnant.
Sucks how these annoying little details keep cropping up to louse up your perfect/simple solution, doesn't it.