Bee,

Thank you for your concern that I might be writing "while not having a clue exactly how women's bodies actually function and the many, many variables that make one birth control method work for a woman and another not." I'm happy to assure you we covered that in the first year of medical school.

Kat,

I'm a vegetarian. Can you imagine how I feel when I order something in a restaurant and find out, three bites into the meal, that the "vegetarian" dish I ordered actually has meat in it? Call me a hair-splitter, but I don't like being misled, even over a relatively trivial matter such as that.

How much worse it is that woman are being misled, by the labels their physician chooses, into violating their own consciences on a matter that is, to some of them, supremely important! It makes me ashamed of my profession. Ironically, those who are most keen to call those technologies "contraception" claim to be pro-choice. Meaningful choice requires information. Mislabeling those technologies as "contraception" obscures the information these women would need to make a choice.

Kent