This week in the War on Women: What a great week to be a slut [View all]

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Despite the rending of garments, filing of lawsuits, protests and demonstrations and even threats of violence, something amazing happened this week:


Beginning today, up to 47 million women may be eligible to get free access to preventive health care services as that provision of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act goes into effect.

Ladies, we have health care. We have basic, preventive, life-saving, life-changing health care:
Well-woman visits
Gestational diabetes screening
HPV DNA testing
STI counseling
HIV screening and counseling
Contraception and contraceptive counseling
Breastfeeding support, supplies, and counseling
Interpersonal and domestic violence screening and counseling

It's not everything. It's not perfect. It doesn't help every single American woman who currently doesn't have affordable access to health care. But those of us who are fortunate enough to have health insurance are now guaranteed access to and coverage of these very basic, very good-for-us-ladies care, including, yup, those sweet, sweet slut pills (aka, contraception) that we all like, most of us use at some point in our lives, and can (as the video above from the Guttmacher Institute explains) make all the difference in the world for us to control our own bodies, our own reproduction, and our own lives. It's better for us, and it's better for our families. In fact, it's better for everyone.

As our vice president would say, it's a big fucking deal.

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