#steralization

[fauntasy]

If a doctor tells you they won't steralize you because of your age, DONT GIVE UP!

I've been through 4 different doctors over 5 years and not one of them would do a tubal ligation for me. I finally found one today. Do not settle. It is your body and your right!

[robinschwartz]

Amelia and I were well taken care of guests by @balam_says (I have been longing to meet Balam, up close Balam looks unreal, like an avatar!). We visited to photograph, & Amelia video the @balamfoundation ‘s event, sponsoring 250 cats to get free sterilization. I photographed the people who traveled hours with their beloved cats in bags and blankets and the hard working Veterinarians who worked for 12 hours a day and spoke to all with patience and respect. Now my job is to get this work published which may help this charitable generous organization do more good work, helping save cats and economical challenged people take care of their cats. Please help us network. Editors suggestions welcomed ! Thank you and donate to @balamfoundation #rescue #adoption to the USA & Canada #cat #steralization @esterilizacionessinfronterasmx https://www.instagram.com/p/CoATa8XgV7y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[birthcontrolhelp]

Please visit my blog for information on:

Birth control

Vasectomies

Tubal Ligation

Abortion

[marauders4evr]

Hey...wait a minute...did they ever overturn Buck v. Bell?

[cawomenscommission-blog]

Maximum Family Grant

The California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids, or CalWORKs, program provides assistance to needy families who are unable to pay for food, housing, utilities, and clothing through cash aid. The program also offers adult recipients assistance in finding employment, offers job training, and furthering their education. The goal of this program is to alleviate the hardships of poverty for families in need. Under the Maximum Family Grant Rule, a child born into a household currently receiving cash aid benefits will be denied any additional assistance for basic needs. The rule was added in 1997, during a time of increased welfare reform laws throughout the United States. The maximum a family can gain from additional assistance is $128.00. Babies are denied additional funding for food and diapers under the MFG rule because their family is already receiving benefits for basic assistance. The exemptions to this rule for rape (if the woman reports her rape within 12 months) and birth control failure (including only sterilization, inter-uterine device and Norplant) with a doctors confirming the failure.

The stated objective of this policy is to impact the reproductive decisions and births among welfare recipients. Research has demonstrated that the rule does not have an actual impact on the family size of CalWORKS recipients, which is similar to the average American family size (1-2 children). The actual impact of the policy is negative; it increases familial poverty and the chances of remaining in deep poverty, and harmfully impacts the physical and mental health of the entire family. California currently has the highest rate of child poverty in the entire United States.

California policy makers and advocates have fought to remove the law since its inception. Currently, Senate Bill 23 seeks to repeal the MFG rule. The author of the bill Senator Holly Mitchell highlights the racial and sexist stereotypes about poor women of color that are the basis on which the bill was founded on. She mentions the stereotype of the “Welfare Queen”, which claims that poor women of color have their children to receive additional funding from the state welfare programs. Senator Mitchell told the Sacramento Bee “It is a classist, sexist, anti-democratic, anti-child, anti-family policy whose premise did not come to fruition... It did not accomplish what it set out to accomplish. So it’s appropriate to take it off the books.”

This rule limits the reproductive freedom of poor women, invades on women's right to privacy, and endangers the health and well-being of infants born into poverty. Reproductive rights and freedom of choice do not just mean the choice to not have a baby, but also includes the right to give birth and have a family when one chooses to do so.

For more information, here is a list of supporting organizations of SB 23:

ACCESS Women’s Health Justice http://accesswhj.org/ 

American Civil Liberties Union https://www.aclu.org/

Center on Law and Social Policy http://www.clasp.org/

Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law County

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/center-on-reproductive-rights-and-justice/

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/bccj/CRRJ_Issue_Brief_MFG_Rule_FINAL.pdf

Welfare Directors Association of California http://www.cwda.org/

California Partnership Children’s Defense Fund-California http://www.cdfca.org/

Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations http://www.ccwro.org/

East Bay Community Law Center http://ebclc.org/

Greenlining Institute http://greenlining.org/

California Latinas for Reproductive Justice http://www.californialatinas.org/

9to5 Working Women’s Coalition http://9to5.org/home/

National Council of Jewish Women http://www.ncjw.org/

Western Center on Law and Poverty http://wclp.org/

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB23

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article10966202.html

[ablackwomansurvivingrape]

Depo-Provera: Deadly Violence Against Black Women

DEADLY BIRTH CONTROL: The Black is Back Coalition joins the fight to expose the racist, eugenicist agendas of those posing as reproductive health advocates to target Black women the world over by deceptively marketing the drug Depo Provera to our community as a safe and effective form of birth control; however, the reality is that it is the deadliest form of birth control that not only increases sterilization and breast cancer among users, but that also significantly increases a person’s chances of acquiring and transmitting HIV/AIDS. The well researched report “Depo-Provera: Deadly Violence Against Women,”published by the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, documents the agendas of Pfizer, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Planned Parenthood, the US Agency for International Development(USAID), the UN, the World Health Organization, the Center for Disease Control, Columbia and Johns Hopkins Universities and a host of many other population control advocates and eugenicists who deceitfully mask the dangers of Depo-Provera (more commonly known as the depo-shot), a controversial and potentially lethal birth control drug, in order to push their eugenicist agenda, via its widespread usage into the Black community. African women and other women of color are targeted throughout the world and are often coerced into taking the depo-shot, in which the side effects include difficulty getting pregnant/sterilization, increased risk of breast cancer, and increased risks of contracting and transmitting HIV/AIDs. Modern day eugenicists deliberately hide these dangerous side effects from the Black community, whose women have been repeatedly used worldwide in Depo-Provera experimentation, without informed consent. One such experiment, which was the largest experiment to date of its kind, lasted from 1967 to 1978 and involved 14,000 low income women in Atlanta Georgia at the Grady clinic (http://www.cwpe.org/node/185). They were never informed that they were being used for experimentation and they were never informed of the drug’ s grave side effects. Many women developed cancer and many died Another such experiment lasted from 1994 to 2006 and involved over 9000 impoverished women in Ghana. Again, informed consent was never obtained from these women, who were merely told that they were receiving routine healthcare. This experiment was conducted by Dr. James Phillips, who is presently a member of the faculty of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Today, Depo-Provera is promoted by such population control advocates throughout our communities as a safe and effective contraceptive. As evidenced, Depo-Provera has a long and controversial history. From the 1960s to the 80s, the FDA withheld its approval of Depo three times because of consistent links to cancer in test animals. In 1992 it finally received FDA approval over the objections of many women’s rights health organizations (http://www.cwpe.org/node/185). In 2004 the FDA identified Depo-Provera as causing serious side effects and issued Black- Box warnings, which are the most stringent warnings mandated by the FCC to notify the public of the significant risk of serious and potentially life threating side effects posed by a drug. The FDA mandated that patients be notified that: 1). Women may lose significant bone mineral density that is not fully reversible and, therefore, (2) Depo Provera should not be used as a long-term birth control method for more than two years. Other warnings include: (3) blood clots in arms, legs, lungs and eyes, (4) stroke, (5) bleeding irregularities, (6)weight gain, (7) ectopic pregnancy, and (8) delayed return to fertility and lack of return to fertility. (9) In addition, scientific research in 2012 reported that women using Depo Provera have double the risk of developing breast cancer. (10). Depo- Provera also has an unintended consequence of significantly increasing a woman’s susceptibility to HIV/AIDS and all other sexually transmitted diseases due to the fact that the high dose of progesterone in Depo-Provera induces thinning of the vaginal walls. (page 1) In a 2011 study of seven African countries involving over 3,000 participants, researchers, led by Renee Heffron at the University of Washington in Seattle, found that women who used Depo-Provera were twice as likely to acquire, as well as to transmit, HIV/AIDS as those who did not; thus, strongly demonstrating a correlation between aggressive promotion of Depo and the HIV/AIDs epidemic ravishing the African continent. (Yet despite these disturbing findings, USAID sends more units of Depo Provera to Africa than any other country in the world). In fact, South Africa is considered the country with the highest rate of AIDS in the world, with the groups most at risk being women aged 25 and 29 and men aged 30 -34. Not coincidentally, South Africa is also one of the countries with the world’s highest Depo usage. Also, ln 2009 the CDC reported that African Americans were 44% of all new HIV infections. Yet, African American women make up 84% of Depo-Provera users. On the other hand, UN data shows that the administration of Depo-Provera to European populations is negligible and averages between .7% and 2% worldwide. Meanwhile the birth rate for African American women has dropped by 30%, compared to only 5% for White American women. In 2011 the CDC reported that Black women in the US had 583,079 births, while White women had 2,150,926 births. In spite of the serious and deadly implications of using this type of birth control, and in spite of the FDA mandated black box warnings, population control advocates continue to illegally promote Depo without black box warnings and without signed informed consent forms informing users of its gravity. In fact, the WHO and the CDC went as far as issuing a statement stating that not only did Depo-Provera not increase a woman’s chance of contracting AIDS, but that it was also perfectly safe for use with women who had the disease. On its website, Planned Parenthood promotes the drug as safe, effective and convenient. It lists the side effects as being: irregular menstrual cycles, weight gain, hair loss, change in appetite, depression, and sore breasts. The International Criminal Court defines genocide in part as committing acts with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, such as killing members of the group, causing bodily or mental harm to members of the group, and imposing measures to prevent births within the group. The Black is Back Coalition commends the Rebecca Project for its excellent and well documented research and supports its conclusion that the administering of the lethal contraceptive Depo-Provera to millions of women of color and impoverished women, while fraudulently concealing the dangers of its use is a policy of genocide. Therefore, we join the Rebecca Project in its call for the following actions: • The DOJ bring Pfizer up on criminal charges of fraud. • That the President issue a moratorium on the use of Depo-Provera to protect all women of color until informed and enforceable consent procedures are in place. • That all Medicaid, state insurance programs, and USAID payments to Pfizer and USAID contractors be immediately stopped. • That the US government hold Congressional Hearings where victims of non-consensual experimentation can testify to bring public attention to the matter. • That we work to create a global coalition of advocates to monitor unethical medical experimentation in Africa. (Forthcoming will be a more detailed analysis and proposal pertaining to the rampant, abusive, and unethical medical experimentation underway on the African Continent.) Resources: http://rebeccaprojectjustice.org/images/stories/depo-provera-deadly-reproductive-violence-rebecca-project-for-human-rights-2013.pdf http://labeling.pfizer.com/ShowLabeling.aspx?id=522 http://www.cwpe.org/node/185 http://www.avert.org/aidssouthafrica.htm http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/risk_HIV_AAA.pdf http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/birth-control/birth-control-shot-depo-provera-4242.htm http://www.global-sisterhood-network.org/content/view/2642/59/

[ghostjewel]

I really want to get sterilized, damn. But I imagine if I pursue that people are going to aggressively try to convince me otherwise.

Pregnancy itself has always nauseated/terrified me.

There is very little chance I will ever be financially, physically, or mentally prepared for a child.

I do not want to pass on my disease.

There are a lot of people with my disease who say that becoming pregnant made the disease much worse and advance more quickly.

I would much rather adopt. I don't really understand biological attachment? I think it would be a lot cooler to help someone who needs a good home. 

but ugh money is an issue. may look into what insurance will do anyway.

[1984welcomesyou]

Did you know there was forced sterilization in the USA?

Though North Carolina did not sterilize the greatest number of people (that distinction belongs to California, where 20,000 were sterilized), the state’s Eugenics Board was notorious for its aggressiveness. While many states confined their sterilization programs to institutions, North Carolina allowed social workers to make recommendations based on observations of “unwholesome” home environments or poor school performance. The state’s program was also one of the longest lasting, increasing its number of sterilizations while others were winding down. Between 1929 and 1974, more than 7,600 North Carolinians were sterilized. Like Willis Lynch, many of the victims were children, and consent was provided by relatives or guardians who feared the loss of welfare benefits or other consequences if they refused.

Source: Salon