{"id":1059,"date":"2005-11-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/11\/dear-pharmaceutical-companies\/"},"modified":"2005-11-11T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T15:00:00","slug":"dear-pharmaceutical-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/11\/dear-pharmaceutical-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Pharmaceutical Companies,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get that you like to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/HEALTH\/11\/10\/patch.warning.ap.ap\/index.html\">mess with women&#8217;s hormones<\/a>.  What fun!  But how about focusing some attention on creating the contraception choices we REALLY need&#8230; like ones that can help control the spread of deadly disease?  Controlling women&#8217;s reproduction is a total kick, but honestly, we&#8217;re worried about disease these days.  Sometimes I think you haven&#8217;t noticed, so to remind you, HIV and AIDS are *very* big problems.  All we&#8217;ve got to use against the spread of STIs is the condom, hardly a practical solution.  I know you think you did women a favor by inventing the female condom, but seriously, what a joke!  Let&#8217;s get those creative minds working on something truly useful!<\/p>\n<p>PS: If you MUST keep on with the obsessive work on fertility control, might I suggest finding a reliable method of birth control that does *not* require doctor visits, prescriptions, insurance, or heavy expense?  If you haven&#8217;t noticed, those are serious problems.  C&#8217;mon guys!  Think *outside* the upper-middle class whitebread box!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get that you like to mess with women&#8217;s hormones. What fun! But how about focusing some attention on creating the contraception choices we REALLY need&#8230; like ones that can help control the spread of deadly disease? Controlling women&#8217;s reproduction is a total kick, but honestly, we&#8217;re worried about disease these days. Sometimes I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}