Well, I guess that pregnancy is a disease now. A disease that is so life threatening that birth control is necessary to me as preventative health care. So necessary, in fact, that I can not only expect, but force, the rest of the country, be it the government or my employer, to pay for it for me. Pregnancy is such an extreme threat to my life that if others will not pay for my birth control I can then consider it a declaration of war against me. I have graduated from being just a uterus to becoming a poor, pathetic victim of my uterus. I guess that makes me a pregnancy survivor...six times. I really beat the odds. I am thinking that pregnancy should have a ribbon like the other terminal diseases. Most likely it should be pink and blue.
Pregnancy is a disease that is such a great threat to my life that I no longer have to take responsibility for my life. I do not have to take responsibility for my sex life in order to avoid pregnancy. I do not have to investigate other options for obtaining affordable birth control myself, but can just force anyone and everyone to provide it for me. I do not have to make the simple choice of changing employers if I don't like their health coverage. I do not have to think for myself or do for myself because I am nothing but a woman. The weaker sex that they have always portrayed me to be. One who is the victim of her own body. We've come a long way, baby.
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