The Problem of the Pill By Mrs Vera West

The contraceptive Pill ushered in the sexual and women's liberation movements of the 1960s. Before the Pill, traditional society disapproved of sexual relations outside of marriage because of the risk of unwanted pregnancy, and this was at a time when abortion was rightly a criminal offence across most of the West, including Australia. Looking back, the Pill allowed women to become wage slaves in the workforce in greater numbers than in the early post-War period.

An article at Mashable.com makes the point that the Pill, and most other forms of contraception, have been biased towards women's reproductive control, but the article while noting the multitude of adverse health effects from the Pill, seems to want to see male contraceptive pills, rather than deconstructing the entire cult of chemical birth control and the ideologies it produced. For a start, it is easier to control one egg rather than millions of sperm.

However, that is not the point. The stronger critique is to see where the sexual liberation movement went, which was to bring in an era of crashing natural birth rates, so that the elites moved to mass immigration, and as well, the Pill began the process of undermining the traditional nuclear family. If sex was available outside of marriage, then one of the reasons some men got married was gone. Overall, it was not too hard to see where the medical technology of the Pill would lead, but it was done anyway as part of the New World Order game plan leading to what we now are today. If there is not a mass revolt against this, one shutters to think of what the world will be like in another 64 years. The Pill was just the beginnings of the Brave New World of Big Pharma.

https://mashable.com/article/birth-control-just-get-on-the-pill

"In the 1960s, the FDA's approval of the birth control pill was seen as a catalyst for the sexual revolution. Women celebrated what seemed to be a newfound freedom to have sex, and children, on their own terms.

Six decades later, the pill and other forms of birth control provide the same freedom for many. We're learning, however, that the revolution came with a hidden dark side. From mental fog to pelvic pain, the pill can cause damaging physical and mental effects. What's worse, pressure from partners, family, friends, and society itself — any time women are told they "should" be on birth control — has socialized everyone to believe it's a woman's responsibility to prevent pregnancy.

Gender compulsory birth control pervades women's lives, Littlejohn argues in the text. Parents often tell their female children to "just get on the pill." Friends share pills and pressure each other to not get pregnant. Media stigmatizes teenage pregnancy and abortion with messages such as: It was the woman's fault for not taking the pill, or she was misguided/stupid for getting pregnant.

Littlejohn referenced a Gilmore Girls clip, where a character implores her daughter to get on the pill when she suspects she's sleeping with her boyfriend.

In broader society, we see gender compulsory birth control in the staggering amount of "female" birth control methods that have emerged since 1960: the IUD, the shot, the patch, the implant, the ring, and the gel.

Meanwhile, the "male" condom has been around for centuries. New forms of temporary birth control for people who can get others pregnant, from gels to shots to pills, are undergoing clinical trials. However, an array of studies into what's been dubbed "male birth control" have shown side effects like acne and severe mood changes. These are the same side effects that some women experience on the pill, and yet at least one clinical trial for male birth control was stopped due to negative side effects.

A similar experience happens in other forms of healthcare as well. Female sterilization surgeries are covered by the Affordable Care Act. Vasectomies, which are simpler procedures, require less recovery time, and can be reversed, aren't.

Marginalized people in the United States (women of color, poor women, and women with disabilities) are especially familiar with the lack of autonomy around birth control, said Littlejohn.

"I felt struck by how disempowered some [women] felt around the experience of using birth control," she said. Reading story after story of women feeling unhappy with the pill but staying on it because their partner or family wanted them to partly inspired Just Get on the Pill.

A common belief is that women choose to go on birth control, but that's not always the case. The United States has a long history of forced sterilization, and we can see echoes of that today. A recent, famous example is Britney Spears, who couldn't take out her IUD under her father's conservatorship. Courts have also coerced women to get on prescription birth control by offering shorter sentences in return.

A similar experience happens in other forms of healthcare as well. Female sterilization surgeries are covered by the Affordable Care Act. Vasectomies, which are simpler procedures, require less recovery time, and can be reversed, aren't."