Uterusless Thoughts about Hobby Lobby

I fell asleep super early last night. Now I'm awake in my dark and quiet house.

I was thinking about this #hobbbylobby case, moreso about medical coverage. I HATE battling with insurance coverage. It's practically a full time job for me. I live with Epilepsy, a brain tumor or two and a mixed bag of other developing brain glitches. None of this is a secret so if you haven't heard about it you just haven't read my posts for very long. I'm fine by the way. How are you?

Anyhow, I was thinking to back when I was having some major gynecological issues. Uterine fibroids, menorrhagia so extreme that I required blood transfusions. I was in my mid 30s.

I already had my kids. My reproductive system was so far gone that I could not have more kids. I was really really sick.

Prior to ultimately having a hysterectomy, my doctor and I tried a number of birth control methods to battle with my extreme medical issues. I wasn't using the birth control as contraceptives - I was using them to battle major medical conditions.

I could not take generic birth control pills for my medical conditions. My options included pharmaceutical prescriptions for contraceptives similar to those that Hobby Lobby just won the right to not cover in their health plans.

I hate to think of women, really really sick women, that for no other reason than the whim of a corporate employer, being told that they cannot have an IUD or Ella to treat their uterine fibroids.

Instead the next options on the Corporate Approved Formulary of Medications Available for Women Because We Say So are GnRH agonists (horrible side effects including "chemical menopause" and bone thinning ) or a hysterectomy.

It is not good Science. It is not good Medicine. What it is is the inhumane treatment of Women.

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