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hamsterjill

(16,117 posts)
11. In the early 1990's, I went to a gynecologist for birth control.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 09:25 PM
16 hrs ago

I was not on birth control at the time and I had just started a relationship that I felt was headed for intimacy. I remember being asked how long I'd been in the relationship, and it was less than six months. I should not have answered, but I think I did. I was told that I should not consider being intimate before having been in a relationship for at least six months. I remember that it not only infuriated me but made me feel like I was being judged BECAUSE I WAS BEING JUDGED!!!!

Changed doctors immediately, of course. Didn't need that kind of crap. It existed THEN even with the safeguards of equality given by Roe, etc. It is only going to get worse as more and more rights are taken from women and they are judged based on their chastity.

This is why, I believe, that CHOICE and EQUALITY have GOT to be paramount on the Democratic platform.

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What if she was gay, married and pregnant. rubbersole 16 hrs ago #9
Another victory Just Jerome 16 hrs ago #10
In the early 1990's, I went to a gynecologist for birth control. hamsterjill 16 hrs ago #11
"he's not obligated to listen to his constituents." GiqueCee 16 hrs ago #12
This. sheshe2 15 hrs ago #18
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine Ping Tung 16 hrs ago #13
The names of the physician and clinic or hospital Gaugamela 16 hrs ago #14
Whoever doxed them could then be held liable Oeditpus Rex 15 hrs ago #19
Best she drop the Xian doc pfitz59 16 hrs ago #15
Being in the Bible Belt, you'd think they would multigraincracker 16 hrs ago #16
According to her Bible, Mary wasn't married Mblaze 16 hrs ago #17
More evidence of the throwback mentality B.See 14 hrs ago #20
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