Fertility

Oh, everyone in the blogosphere is talking about this article, on the stigma, even among pro-choice circles, of having more than one abortion. Abortion providers are all, well, duh, birth control is not 100%, so of course there will be some women who have more than one abortion. But regular women are all like, well geez, didn't she learn the first time.

So I thought I'd point out a really incredible resource to help any of my (female) readers do better with preventing pregnancy, or with getting pregnant, as the case may be. The really incredible resource is your cervical snot, and this book Taking Charge of Your Fertility will tell you everything you need to know about your cervical snot, and about what it has to do with how fertile you are. If you are trying to get pregnant, obviously you want to screw on your most fertile days. If you're trying to avoid it, you may want to avoid screwing on those days, even if you use another form of birth control. Because if your regular birth control fails you on a day when you're super-fertile to begin with, you should rush off to a pharmacist and get the morning-after pill. If you can find a pharmacist who will fill your prescription, that is.

There's a huge number of people out there who want to take charge of your fertility for you, and I don't think any of us can look forward and believe that birth control, the morning-after pill, and abortions are going to become easier to get in the future. We are going to have to return to the guerilla women's health days of the 70s, and we will need all the knowledge we can get about our own bodies.