Birth control, I love you. It’s not you, it’s me. Dear Birth Control, I just wanted to take the time to say thanks for sticking by my side all these years. You empowered me to take charge of my own story through the most turbulent chapters of my life. You’re the reason I’m the most […]
Making the pill and other hormonal birth control methods difficult to access denies women, and others with wombs, total control over our lives. Dear men, let’s imagine this story isn’t about the pill, its about beer. Imagine that every three months you have to pay to see a doctor to get their permission to drink […]
I will never apologize for doing what is right for my body. Well, maybe there’s one wrong way, I thought, inspecting my surrogate little sister’s half-used pill pack, every second or third pouch punched out like answers on a Scantron sheet. “These aren’t like Advil, babe,” I told her. “In order for them to work, […]
The morning-after pill is not an abortion pill. It always comes down to control. Rape. Civil Rights. Women’s Rights. Margaret Sanger coined the phrase “birth control” in the early 1900’s. Sanger was a nurse who worked with the poor on the lower east side of New York and was well acquainted with the effects unplanned pregnancies had […]
