Bysiewicz, Bond Back Birth Control Bill

Neither Bond nor SuBy have much clinical or pharmacological education. This move seems motivated by politics, not best medical practices. I am all for making birth control, including contraceptives and abortion, easily available, but the argument should be based in medicine. Oral contraceptives are not for everyone, and are best taken under a physician's supervision. (My wife suffered serious side effects.)

It was my understanding that the reason for having personal doctors and health clinics like Planned Parenthood require an appointment and exam for obtaining birth control was that they could monitor for patients who may have serious complications from those at high risk of side effects from birth control (like blood clots from hormone based medicine like the pill,) and to offer alternative birth control choices if one might be better for a patient, and to give patients an opportunity they might otherwise miss to be screened for cancers or STDs or other health issues. Many female patients only see their clinician who prescribes their birth control and no other doctor outside of a hospital visit if necessary. Many clinics providers providing birth control have noticed other medical conditions and encouraged their patients to see a physician in that area of expertise for treatment.
While birth control should be inexpensive and easily obtainable for all who need it, a medical professional should be periodically monitoring a patient’s health and tolerance to medication or medical devices to prevent negative side effects, and to provide a regular medical check up for the patient.

No one ever wants to have an abortion. And if the Supreme Court Justice who pushed the end to Row v. Wade ever had to have an abortion, he might understand what he did. But, he does understand what he did and that is he just couldn't stand the idea that women should control their own bodies.

Fair enough...let's make that law outlawing abortions apply to all.

Doesn't equality make sense here? We now need to have a bill to stop erections and the purchase of VIAGRA = the cause of pregnancies and unwanted abortions?

Then if a woman does need to buy an abortion pill the man who was 50% of this action should be arrested and spend one year in jail.

Right now, men are getting away Scott free from this whole issue. Where's the men's protests around the country - I mean JUST men?

If we have laws to govern women's bodies, we need to have laws to govern men's reproductive rights too!

Or doesn't the principle of EQUALITY apply to men?

You can’t have it both ways. If a man wants to keep the baby and the woman does not shouldn’t the man be able to go to court and stop the abortion. A woman has all the rights and I 100 percent agree but you are trying to put men in jail.

RedAlert23...I agree with you - that question - does a man have a right to be the father of a partner's unwanted pregnancy if the woman wants, for whatever reasons(s) end the pregnancy?

It seems unfair to men who want to have this right. In that case, maybe there should be a mediation system set up with the courts to hash this out, but with the understanding that a woman is not a dog or a baby maker, but a human being who has the final right to decide about issues related to her body and her health.

Knowing and understanding this, men should act accordingly. Don't impregnate a woman if you're not prepared to live with the consequences - that you have no final right and no say in what happens to a potential child of yours. It is not your body after all, it's HERS!

To strip away the right of a woman to chose affects all men and all women too.

When a White fascist led government like the one we have starts stripping away fundamental rights that most other civilized countries have, we're in deep doo-doo.

We've seen this before - Hitler, Mussolini, 45, DeSantis and the 147 members of Congress who did not vote to certify Biden as President and instead supported a failed insurrection to topple our democracy and to take fascist power.

Thanks FOX, and to the Fascists Rupert Murdock and Tucker Carlson for admitting that trump lost the election.

When one half of the members of our nation lose a fundamental right, we all lose. Who's next?

"First they came for..." quote from Martin Niemolier

this is taking things way too far. Pharmacists are NOT doctors. Birth control methods outside of abstinence and interruption ALL carry serious risks that are not rare. Medical Doctors are spend a lot of time in school to understand how medicinal intervention affect the many processes within the body. They are the top of the food chain when it comes to medical providers. Taking MDs out of prescribing medication is, put simply, DUMB.

If you are biologically male, and you don’t want your biologically female sexual partner to potentially get an abortion, then don’t have sexual relations, and then you won’t be faced with that scenario. Otherwise, if it is her body, then it is her choice.