Another tip from Dawn Eden this time on how Planned Parenthood is to become "fat friendly."
Efforts are now underway to alleviate larger women’s discomfort at the gynecologist’s office. Pat Lyons, a registered nurse, public health educator, and co-author of the Berkeley study, is working with Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes (PPSFL), in New York, to develop a program for sensitive treatment of overweight patients.
These and other health care providers are working from a foundation built by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity. In 2002, the AAFP task force released guidelines for caring for overweight and obese patients. The guidelines included encouraging the purchase of office supplies that fit larger patients and talking to overweight women about how they want to be weighed, among other things.
Maureen Kelly, director of training and education for PPSFL, plans to launch a pilot program in 2006 that makes some Planned Parenthood health centers around the United States "fat friendly." The program includes training staff; offering pamphlets on the healthcare rights of overweight women to clients; and stocking appropriate exam tables, robes, and equipment. Kelly strives to build health centers where, she says, "we honor the fact that women come in all different shapes and sizes."
Of course we can easily imagine the Planned Parenthood diet. Drop pounds of tissue mass in one easy visit. Of course no mention of oral contraceptives causing weight gain in some women especially DepoProvera. Though all of their programs reaching out to women only reminds is that they are wise as serpents.
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How wonderful, and I even live in the “Southern Finger Lakes” of New York and I hadn’t even heard this…
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My daughter once told me how the waitresses in the restaurant she worked at were always complaining about how The Pill made them fat and unattractive. I told her, “Yeah. That’s how it works.”
Maybe Planned Parenthood is actually responsible for turning these babes into butterballs in the first place.
I don’t get this “fat acceptance” stuff. Why would should people accept something that is unhealthy? It’s like having an “drug addict acceptance” program, where instead of treating the addiction, they tolerate it because “everyone’s different” and it’s important to “celebrate diversity.”
Confessionator, unfortunately they do have a drug addict acceptance program. It’s called the clean needle exchange program. The philosophy behind it is, “If they are going to do it anyway, let’s try to protect others from AIDS.”
This is the same philosophy PP holds with regard to teenagers. Planned Parenthood believes that teenage girls are incapable of self control. In some quarters, self control is disdained.
It should come as no surprise whatsoever that PP would have the same regard for overweight women: You have no self control. I do not believe in you. You are not worth fighting for.
I’m a fat woman–maybe 50 lbs over ideal weight. And I freely admit I have a problem with the sin of gluttony, which, by the grace of God and with His assistance, I am trying to overcome.
That said, it is pretty insulting to go to any kind of medical care facility and have to put on a gown that doesn’t cover what it is intended to. And painful to have to get a mammogram on a machine that is designed for women that are ‘average’ on top when you aren’t. I’m not a fan of Planned Parenthood–but I do approve of medical facilities stocking appropriate equipment for all their patients, not just the ones that are a size that society considers ‘healthy’. Having appropriately sized tables and gowns doesn’t necessarily say, “We don’t care enough about you to help you lose weight.” It says, “We respect you enough to help you feel comfortable while you are here for medical treatment.”
“Southern Finger Lakes” gee well that covers Corning…how considerate of them. Love their website with the family picture on the front. How welcoming….sigh
I think comparing being overweight to addiction is way off base. We all have flaws and unfortunately people with a weight problem wear their’s on the outside for all to see. I don’t have a weight problem and I realize that if I wore my flaws on the outside they would be much uglier than excess weight.
Encourage health, yes, but being uncharitable doesn’t help anyone to better themselves. (One other thing, it is definitley harder for some people to maintain ideal weight, they are predisposed to excess weight)
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