Yes, uteruses belong to a shadow realm, because childbirth is life-threatening and highly expensive.
Viagra is covered under Obamacare, many places want birth control pills not to be (the whole Hobby Lobby thing). Folks are still trying to get people to take taxes off of sanitary products. It's a mess.
Dude, the all-capsing is giving me a headache... I disagree with you for the same reasons that None disagrees with you, and unlike our previous argument, we're not talking about your body here. I know your intentions are in the right place but I don't agree with you in taking action that is going to have the side effect of restricting abortion access. Expanding access to IDs would require expanding access to voting and we know that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
Viagra is a treatment for ED, but is not the only treatment for ED. There are many pathologies that can cause ED, not all of which are related to blood oxygen levels. Not all of those are covered by insurance, because they are considered "elective, unnecessary surgeries or procedures." This is not a Man vs Woman issue-- both Gyn and Uro are "Human health" issues.
As for the issue of IDs, and reaching for stopgaps, and pretending they are sufficient-- No.
A good number of problems in the modern world come from reaching for the "most expedient" solution, rather than the provably correct solution. See also, Kissinger's bullshit with the middle east, as the most expedient solution to his perceptions of decline in american hegemony-- and his "Global balance of power." It has caused snowballing effects that have ruined hundreds of thousands of lives, and continues to ruin lives to this day.
The issue with voting is a systemic problem, that has snowballing effects. Restriction of IDs is the kind of bullshit "expedient!" solution I am referring to, in and of itself. It was and is being done by a political minority, to hedge against the loss of their own political hegemony, and it destroys lives through its snowballing effects. The reduction in availability of birth control you are fearful of, is a very justifiable fear in the face of the continuance of that snowball cascade, caused by the continuance of such policies.
Again, though-- that is not an issue that is intimately
tied to birth control, it is an issue that barrels INTO birth control, caused by bullshit in the voting availability arena, artificially imposed through ID restrictions, and which is being purposefully done, and MUST be stopped.
The correct fix, is to fix the problem with the IDs, even though that is indeed the hardest area to get traction in, BECAUSE it is the focal point of this artificial application of political force, by the GOP and its supporters.
Trying to hedge around one's own perceived loss of ability (in this case, loss of access to birth control, as adjunct to this other group's activities with IDs), with "Most Expedient" solutions, only amplifies these kinds of snowballing cascades of ancillary problems, which then in turn, trigger yet MORE "Most Expedient" solutions, which then further snowball.
The correct action is to fix the actual problem, and not to chase after symptoms.
Our society has a problem with cancer, metaphorically. Asserting "The cancer is too hard to treat!", and then focusing on applying skin cream, makeup, and taking a multi-drug cocktail to alleviate symptoms--- does not actually heal the patient. It masks the symptoms, while adding new pathologies from the polypharmacy.
I would argue that as a woman, especially one that has endured sexual assault (and thus, the loss of body agency that is associated with that trauma), you are having a heightened reaction to this loss, that distorts the importance of it in the face of other problems-- That is to say, you are incorrectly assigning a higher priority to the perceived availability of birth control (The suggestion I made does not actually reduce the person's physical ability to get the product-- at most, it inconveniences them-- Rather than view it as "You have to take the survey to get it!", it is rather "If you ask for it, the Pharmacist has to ask-- you can tell him/her whatever you damnwell please, and they have to accept it, and no, they cannot withhold the product.") vs the lack of IDs, vis-a-vis the multitudinous impacts that has on society (since, as you rightly point out, proper tracking would indeed require identification of an individual in the society, and the best vehicle for that is the ID card system, since that is kinda what it is for. The issue of "not a valid identity", associated with being denied access to that ID system (through denial of applications for ID cards) for artificial voting control, has myriad effects on people, not just their ability to obtain birth control. --And, for the record, I will come out right now and say that the people disadvantaged in this way statistically do in fact need these products and services more than other demographics, and should not be suffering like that--
When people cannot EAT-- cannot FIND WORK-- cannot be represented in government-- Are systemically abused by the criminal justice system as non-persons, or as non-citizens--- Those problems loom large, combined with the reduction in birth control availability.
Again, Focus that energy on fixing the ID system. That is what needs to be fixed there. It needs to be fixed for multitudinous reasons, and fixing it, will do wonders for getting the people impacted access to quality healthcare.
I am very vocally opposed to "Most Expedient" solutions-- They almost always cause vastly more problems than they purport to resolve, and cause an even bigger mess. In my view, they are not, therefore, actually solutions. They are disguised problems, that people then violently fight to protect.
Groups like the GOP leverage this to get what they want, which is to stay in power.
Collectively, we (as citizens, as in all of us), need to focus on what the actual causal problems are, and demand actual substantive corrections to them. As long as we reach for "Most Expedient!" stopgaps, and then violently defend those stopgaps, instead of demanding substantive change--- We will NEVER get substantive change.
Again, consider it like this:
Our country has Melanoma.
our options are:
Surgical correction (which is painful, and hard to do, but has the best outcome)
Skin bleach to try and conceal it.
Pain killers and steroid antiinflamatories
heavy coats of base foundation and makeup.
I argue that skin bleach, makeup, and pain killers are not effective treatments, despite being readily available, and easier to use. You appear to be so fixated on having the skin bleach restricted, that you forget that the thing we actually have is Melanoma.
The metaphorically proposed questionaire about buying lots of skin bleach, is not there to prohibit its use. It is there to identify people with body identity issues, who use it incorrectly, and to prevent other kinds of problems, (Namely, the kind of enabled sexual abuse the statistics scream about.) by identifying those people, and getting them help.
We need to treat the Melanoma.
When we tell ourselves "We will never be cured of the Melanoma!!", we only doom ourselves to that fate.
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