<p>Many women take birth control pills for other health issues. They are misnamed. Should be called hormone pills or something, rather than birth control pills.</p>
<p>My daughter was telling me about a Fordham Grad student, on Fordham’s health plan, who has been on the pill since she was 12 or 14 to treat fibroids. Fordham won’t fill her 'script. So even though she pays to be on Fordham’s health plan, she has to go to a Planned Parenthood to get her pills. </p>
<p>The fact is, there are lesbian women who are on the pill. It’s not all about having sex and avoiding pregnancy.</p>
<p>True, Lefty. There are always exceptions.</p>
<p>So disappointed by the direction that this thread has taken and some of the comments! Ouch!</p>
<p>This is about Fordham. I know, I succumbed to replying to the animosity directed at Catholic religious men, and the church standing fast to their teaching. It’s just so hard to swallow all the time. Very good points, sovereigndebt.</p>
<p>Actually, it is about the poster’s concerns. Only you can decide whether to go to a school not as well-known in your country for prestige at home for your parents’ sake. Fordham and Catholics welcome and accept all people. Just hope you are as accepting of them if you attend!</p>
<p>GCNY…I hear you. Actually I am a proponent of open discussion and debate. And being respectful of all views. The Church doesnt win converts with a billy club. It wins them with love and respect and openness. I was raised in the olden days…the Latin Rite days, when we feared those in black…nuns and priests and it wasnt much fun, I can tell you. In fact, I have a lot of repressed anxiety about that. They were mean and cruel and abusive (emotionally). I learned to forgive and move along. But I also see the failings of the 60’s revolution in the Church, when they ordained the wrong people with the wrong message and paid a very bad price. And religious nuns fled in droves to the point that most religious orders are almost extinct. A sad price to pay. </p>
<p>My faith was saved and restored by some very influential priests (and professors) in my life. </p>
<p>As for the OP…not sure what to think…and they seemed to have gone away anyway…was Khazakstan for real? Maybe. Not sure. But your words ring very true, whosoever shall enter the hallowed halls of Rose Hill (or Lincoln Center) should enter with the same tolerance of others as they expect from them. To learn from each other, and to enrich the experience for all in class.</p>
<p>I work in country and/or with nationals from a number of the 'stans. (Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc.) and this is what I know: Emerging nations covet higher education degrees from ANYWHERE for its people. Kazakhstan presently has fewer universities in the entire country than either Boston alone or New York City. Education is still for the privileged few in most countries and yet, as Kazakhstan emerges as a higher placed economy on the global stage, it will continue to need MORE highly educated individuals. Therefore, from my professional perspective, it is irrelevant whether OP selects Fordham or Boston University. Both are exceptional institutions offering a great education. It is irrelevant if one is Catholic and the other secular. It is irrelevant whether her home country has heard of Fordham or not–and I highly doubt OP’s knowledge is Ministry of Higher Education-level knowledge unless there is more to her background than we know at present. I will say, however, that many of my Muslim friends out of the United States DO send their children to Catholic Jesuit universities because the conservative values more closely resonate with theirs. What is most important is that OP select the best fit for her, apart from perceived status, and do exceptionally well. The nation from which OP comes, needs it.</p>