This type of thing never seems to happen in Canada, or maybe I don’t hear about it. I go to a Muslim doctor, who is observant enough to wear a hijab, ankle-length skirts, and long sleeves, at a clinic affiliated with a Catholic hospital, and no one has ever even blinked at my birth control prescription.

It’s never the members of a minority religion who are the problem; it’s always the members of the majority religion. Which Canada doesn’t seem immune from.

Yes, you do. Don’t assume that because Canada is very far ahead of the US on many social issues that all Canadians everywhere are enlightened, nonsexist folk.

I’ve no idea if I could get an abortion through the hospital, but I’m sure they would refer me somewhere. Because not to refer me would be…I don’t know…immoral and illegal?

Well…
About a month before Plan B became available over the counter, my husband and I had a condom slip during the middle of my cycle. I called my doctor’s office the next day and told them my issue, even joked a bit about it. I figured the doctor would call me in a script and I’d be fine. The office worker who answered the phone listened to my story and told me coldly that the office couldn’t help me. I asked to speak to my doctor, and was told she would call me. She called me back over 6 hours later and told me that the office’s policy was not to dispense Plan B under any circumstances. When I asked her to refer me to another doctor, she was unable to think of any one who would possibly prescribe Plan B to me.
Luckily, there is a Planned Parenthood clinic in this city and the next morning (day 3) I went to see them. I had to let the doctor there do an exam before they would give me the script, and I had to pay out of pocket for the exam and the script, because they couldn’t take my insurance. So $240 dollars later, I had my two, tiny Plan B pills and still another 2-3 weeks of worrying if I had caught things in time. I was fine, this time. But what tiny faith I had in doctors was gone because of this incident.

Seriously.

Y’all, I’m just waiting for one of these fuckers to mess with me. I especially look forward to the moment when, staring them down, I place a call to my lawyers and clearly enunciate “mal-prac-tice.”

I feel the same way. I’m just evil enough that when I get really pissed off (and that would definitely do it) that they would surely regret it.

Personally, I think that when these assholes refuse to prescribe EC for religious, ‘life of the goddamned embryo’ reasons, then they should be forced to pay for the subsequent abortion if that’s what the woman chooses or for the entire cost of giving birth to and raising a child if that’s what she chooses, plus punitive ’suffering and anguish’ money.