Ann Marie Henninger, who is on the ballot for the Olympic Medical Center board, works for a reproductive health facility called Obria that originated in California.
According to an Aug. 29 story in Vox, Obria facilities promote religious-based contraception methods relying on outdated and unreliable natural family planning birth control techniques using monthly menstrual cycles — better known as the rhythm method.
Obria is run by an anti-abortion activist who managed to land a $1.7 million federal grant through Title X to serve underserved females, the story said.
The religious right sometimes appears clueless concerning deaths in the past from the complications of pregnancy, childbirth, back-alley abortions and the high rates of fertility of women before the pill.
My two grandmothers and mother had a total of 30 living children.
Contraception methods developed since the 1950s were a godsend for women and families dealing with the financial burdens of multiple children, including my mother who was desperate for reliable birth control after having seven children in nine and a half years.
I do not want Ann Marie Henninger on the Olympic Medical Center board making decisions about what is appropriate health care to be offered at OMC for women in this community.
I will be voting for Nate Adkisson.
Cheryl Nash,
Port Angeles