Last week, I logged on to The New York Times to read its piece about right-wing women who are improbably eager for their party to get more aggressive in the battle against reproductive liberty and nearly spit out my seltzer.

The line that did me in was from Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway, quoted as urging conservative candidates to push back against Democrats who use the term “women’s health” in reference to contraception or abortion. “Women’s health issues,” Conway averred, “are osteoporosis or breast cancer or seniors living alone who don’t have enough money for health care.”

I’ve gotten downright inured to Republican men making gaffes about "legitimate rape" and female bodies that have "ways to shut that whole thing down," but here was a Republican woman blithely asserting that procedures like the one I had undergone just that morning—in which a doctor pushed a very long needle through my abdominal muscles, into my uterus, and into the amniotic sac surrounding the future kid I hope to carry to term—did not qualify as part of "women's health."

Some Republicans might at least be pleased that I am currently doing the proper female work of childbearing. But then again, the fact that I had had an amniocentesis to begin with was the result of calculations and history involving my advanced maternal age, which I reached by not reproducing during my 20s and early 30s (thanks to birth control which had to be specially prescribed due to clotting factors and fibroids). And of course, amnio is a diagnostic test that would, in part, help me decide whether to carry the pregnancy to term or have an abortion.

But this is all part of the point: When it comes to the complicated functioning of bodies and lives, procedures and prescriptions do not exist in vacuums, they are connected to a million other procedures and prescriptions … and they all add up to women’s health.