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Women's Rights & Issues

Scrivener7

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3. Pelvic pain and fogginess are a small price to pay for freedom from unwanted pregnancies.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Tue Aug 31, 2021, 02:06 PM

Aug 2021

Should the pill be improved so those do not happen? Absolutely.

But if the author is saying birth control hasn't been revolutionary in it's empowerment of women, really all that author is saying is that she was not alive and doesn't remember the time when women had no protection against unwanted pregnancies.

PS: If a woman doesn't want to get pregnant, she is foolish if she doesn't take responsibility for her birth control.

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The dark side of the pill, as revealed by new research [View all] Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 OP

Birth control was also a near miraculous treatment for girls/women with hormone associated migraine- hlthe2b Aug 2021 #1

The BCP gave my daughter horrible migraines Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 #4

Its use in treating hormonally-induced migraines is the regulating impact on girls/women hlthe2b Aug 2021 #5

As a man, I was always thankful for birth control. I've been willing to get a brewens Aug 2021 #2

Pelvic pain and fogginess are a small price to pay for freedom from unwanted pregnancies. Scrivener7 Aug 2021 #3

An interesting article, even if the sample was small. Birth control is the responsibility niyad Sep 2021 #6