Women Have Reproductive Duty, Says ‘Rhythm’ Doctor
A young woman was refused the birth control pill because she had not yet done her “reproductive job”.
Melissa Pont, 23, said her family practitioner, Dr Joseph Lee, would not renew her pill prescription, instead lecturing her on a baby’s right to live and on using the rhythm method, an unreliable family planning technique that involves having sex only at certain times of the month.
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Lee, a doctor at Wairau Community Clinic in Blenheim, stood by his views and actions. “I don’t want to interfere with the process of producing life,” the Catholic father-of-two told the Herald on Sunday.
Lee also does not prescribe condoms, and encourages patients as young as 16 to use the rhythm method.
Teen pregnancy might be a girl’s “destiny”, he said, and it was certainly not as bad as same- sex marriage.
The only circumstances in which he would prescribe the contraceptive pill would be if a woman wanted space between pregnancies, or had at least four children.
“I think they’ve already done their reproductive job”.
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