Actually, while preparing dinner, I think I've finally come up with the thought which captures at least how I think of this.
In Recommendation 1, it talks about the need for everyone to have a "reproductive life plan." So, what if, instead of calling the whole initiative "Preconceptive care", they instead called the whole thing "Reproductive Life Planning"? I mean, keep the entire program, all it's ambitions, all it's scientific facts completely the same, and do nothing -- *nothing* -- but change the name?
It seems pretty obvious to me how that simple change dramatically changes the effect on the political debate, the effects on the mental headspace.
I mean, just try out "Preconceptive Care is an important women's health issue" vs. "Reproductive Life Planning is an important women's health issue". The exact same set of practical actions, with two different names -- to me, the implications on the shaping of the collective consciousness, on the political debate, are as obvious as a two-by-four to the forehead. And if I could think of that while microwaving ramen, I'm certain the folks whose full time job was to create this surely could have thought of the same. They chose one over the other. They almost certainly didn't do it by accident -- and almost certainly didn't do it unaware.
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In Recommendation 1, it talks about the need for everyone to have a "reproductive life plan." So, what if, instead of calling the whole initiative "Preconceptive care", they instead called the whole thing "Reproductive Life Planning"? I mean, keep the entire program, all it's ambitions, all it's scientific facts completely the same, and do nothing -- *nothing* -- but change the name?
It seems pretty obvious to me how that simple change dramatically changes the effect on the political debate, the effects on the mental headspace.
I mean, just try out "Preconceptive Care is an important women's health issue" vs. "Reproductive Life Planning is an important women's health issue". The exact same set of practical actions, with two different names -- to me, the implications on the shaping of the collective consciousness, on the political debate, are as obvious as a two-by-four to the forehead. And if I could think of that while microwaving ramen, I'm certain the folks whose full time job was to create this surely could have thought of the same. They chose one over the other. They almost certainly didn't do it by accident -- and almost certainly didn't do it unaware.