Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law
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"We don't consider it to be health care, but a lifestyle choice," said John Haas, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, a Philadelphia think tank whose work reflects church teachings. "We think there are other ways to avoid having children than by ingesting chemicals paid for by health insurance."There is so much prejudice conflated into Haas's words [and the bold part is particularly infuriating], it's maddening
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Actually, Israeli researchers are working on a pill for men these days. I don't have a link saved in my favorites, but there was some very excited talk about it in the news earlier this year.
There were pills being mad, IIRC, but men didn't want to risk the same side effects as women have, and they stopped because there wasn't a market for it.
i had a religion teacher tell me 'diet and exercise' can make your periods more bearable. his explanation for why he knew so much about periods was that he had a wife so obv he was just overall an expert on women's bodies. barf. men just can't stand to see a discussion not being about them so they have to open their big annoying privileged mouths.
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i had a religion teacher tell me 'diet and exercise' can make your periods more bearable. his explanation for why he knew so much about periods was that he had a wife so obv he was just overall an expert on women's bodies. barf. men just can't stand to see a discussion not being about them so they have to open their big annoying privileged mouths.
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