I want to introduce a scheme for the provision of the most effective method of contraception, free of charge to all who wish to avail of it within our country. Today I am asking for your views and help. See the link below to take part in the consultation. Let’s get this done! https://t.co/nvYq7HPKjN
— Simon Harris TD (@SimonHarrisTD) July 9, 2019
And ‘coils’ for the ladies.
FIGHT!
The twentysomething “pull-out generation”.
Poster demographic for unprotected sex.
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett writes:
“Add an abnormal smear test result into the mix (pre-cancerous cells on the cervix are usually caused by human papillomavirus, HPV; up to eight out of 10 people will be infected with it at some point. As a character in Girls says, “all adventurous girls” have it) and I became pretty convinced of the importance of strapping it up…”
Splutter.
Unsafe Sex; why everyone’s at it (Rhiannon Lucy Cosslettt Guardian)
An ad in the January 1966 issue of Irish Woman’s Journal.
Good, careful times.
Spotted in an unnamed church in Cork.
(Alana Farrell via Conor P)
Above: symphysiotomy survivor Marin O’Moore, with her daughter last March prior to the first Dail debate about the procedure.
A DRAFT report commissioned by the Government into the use of a controversial childbirth operation says one of the reasons it was used was to obey laws influenced by the Catholic Church that banned contraception and sterilisation.
It is estimated up to 1,500 women underwent symphysiotomies – an operation to widen the pelvis – between the mid-1940s and mid-1980s. The procedure has since been linked with lifelong health problems such as incontinence, chronic pain and mobility problems.
The use of symphysiotomy began to decline from the late 1950s as a result of increased confidence in the safety of repeated Caesarean sections. However, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital continued with the procedure until 1984.
Presumably not a hot topic at the Eucharistic Congress.
Church influenced birth procedure, says report (Irish Times)
Previously: Meet Marin
(Photocall Ireland)
We’re blaming fornication.
[Senator] Catherine Noone (FG), above, said the use of the pill should be a last resort. The rise in sales seemed to indicate that it was being used as a contraceptive.
Young women in many instances were putting themselves at risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, she said. The use of the pill also had many side effects in terms of reproductive health as well as all sorts of problems down the line for women in the younger cohort.
Perhaps consideration should be given to raising the price, which had been cut from €50 to €15 last year. She believed that a rise in price should be accompanied by an accompanying awareness campaign.
Oh.
Responding to what he termed her “extraordinary suggestion”, John Crown (Ind) said it was akin to attempting to reduce the incidence of abortion by “increasing the waiting list to 10 months”.
Seanad Report (Jimmy Walshe, Irish Times)
Previously: Michelle Mulherin: She So Forni
Thanks Lars Biscuit
Attention, swordsmen of the world. A decade of childless shenanigans awaits you.
It’s called RISUG (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance) and it’s recently been shown to be 100% effective for a minimum of 10 years with no side-effects and complete reversibility.
The thing that makes RISUG so effective is that it is not a drug, it’s a polymer – a positively-charged polymer to be precise. Sperm, you see, are negatively charged – so when they travel past the polymer as they pass through the vas deferens – they get zapped. Obviously the catch is that the polymer must be injected into the vas deferens via the scrotum – but the 15-minute procedure is probably a lot less painful than it sounds… and much less painful than childbirth.
