This will be long so bear with me...
For those who don't know, roaccutane is an acne medication which is very strong and can have horrible side effects, including depression and birth defects but there are plenty more. It is so strong and the side effects can be so bad that there are even many people who think it should be banned and are trying to do exactly that.
Understandably because of the birth defects you must not get pregnant while on it. The manufacturers highly recommend using contraception while on it and for one month afterwards and insist on pregnancy tests whilst on it.
Even though contraception isn't compulsory (I will get to that bit later), at least not in the UK or US, there are still a great number of dermatologists who insist it is and simply will not prescribe to anyone who isn't on contraception. It doesn't matter if you're not sexually active and have no intention to be because they "can't take your word for it" that you won't have sex (yet they have no problem taking your word for it and believing you when you say "yup, doc, I'm on the pill" 
). Nope, you must take contraception.
I can understand why. Really I do. You really do not want to get pregnant while on it, the birth defects are really horrible. But somehow I just can't help but think that it is fucking offensive that women have to have their hand held and be treated like children when it comes to pregnancy and babies. All medications involve an element of trust between doctor and patient but when it comes to women and their reproductive organs and their sex lives then they are too fucking stupid to be trusted and have to be guided and have their hand held all the way.
Also roaccutane obviously has side effects. Contraception can also have really bad side effects for some women too. I have known women who have suffered depression, mood swings, non stop bleeding, bad headaches to the point of being sick, etc whilst on the pill/injection/imlplant/whatever. So you then have to basically put up with the side effects of the roaccutane and the contraception. If you're not even sexually active them it just seems insane to me to do that and take unnecessary medication and put up with even more side effects.
Also I mentioned depression is a possible side effect of roaccutane and hormonal contraception. So in other words women would have to put up with double the risk of depression.
I'm aware that contraception isn't actually mandatory while on it (although the number of dermatologists who insist it is is just astounding) but it is so heavily reccomended that it might as well be.
In case anyone thinks I'm cracking up with that last point, it is certainly not compulsory in the UK or the US. I have no idea about other countries.
"Do all women have to enter the Pregnancy Prevention Programme?
Women who are not sexually active, or who are unable to become pregnant due to medical reasons, or who have been sterilised, may be excluded from the Pregnancy Prevention Programme."
-- The British Association of Dermatologists
And in the US where they have the ipledge program you're actually meant to choose two forms of contraception, a hormone method and a barrier method. However you are allowed to select abstinence as your first method of contraception and "nothing" as your second (and I have known people who have done exactly that).
"iPLEDGE guidelines suggest that abstinence is not advised, but is an acceptable option when chosen for religious, lifestyle, or medical reasons."
-- here
Yet of course there are some people who have been brainwashed to think that contraception is compulsory that anyone who has chosen to opt out of it and not taken it with the agreement of their doctor is "breaking the rules" .
I have heard the whole "you should take contraception just in case you are raped" but I don't even want to go into how fucking offensive that argument is. I have been raped before and it just smacks of victim blaming to me and I do find it fucking offensive. I guess these people just think all women should be on contraception all of the time "just in case" they are raped. Unless of course they're trying for a baby in which case they should be locked in a tower with access to their husband only .
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