One more thought on this CDC Report. I recognize that most folks got their information from the Washington Post article, but it seems our emphases were all off. While the phrasing of treating women as "pre-conception" was deeply discomfiting, the actual medical advice and data offered was all sound. If we want to remain the side committed to serious science and the preservation of expertise, we've got to support well-documented research when it emerges, even if its leaves us uncomfortable.
But there was something more to be seen in the report. It offered a loud call to increase health care coverage among poor women, a full-throated defense of Medicaid, and a recommendation to increase the use of family planning waivers. And that was just to start -- the report also lauds increased research on women's health, more public health programs (including increased funding for Title X which, to quote, "provide approximately 4.6 million women with family planning education and contraceptives and pregnancy tests"), and vastly increase the availability of post-partum care.
