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Y'all forgetting they were gathering period data and were arresting women who had 'abortion-like' procedures?

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Seems more like this post was done to peddle big pharmas and the patriarchies idea of how women should be available for sex by being constantly drugged on hormons.
Condoms are a thing and protect against many STDs too.
- drugged on hormones lmao? birth control doesn't have psychoactive effects, chill.
  on condoms: stealthing is a thing, condoms break, and no single birth control method is 100%. not everyone can afford the risk of pregnancy by relying on a single layer of defense
  
  Idk. My birth control triggered treatment resistant depression. Possible it could have happened anyway, but I didn't struggle with any mental health issues before that. We tried all different kinds of birth control. My doctor certainly didn't warn me about the risks for any of them.
  I wasn't even trying to be safe for sex, I just had chronic pain. No pain meds ever offered. Just birth control suggested from early in my adolescence. When I finally eventually started birth control it didn't fix my pain and I ended up leaving college and my life fell off the rails for years. Major depression is no joke.
  
  sounds like you developed depression from medical malpractice and I'm really sorry your doctor was a raging misogynist.
  I'm not denying that hormone blend could have made it worse, it just sounds like you'd have developed depression regardless because your chronic pain probably got worse because it went unaddressed and on top of that you also got blamed for it because of your uterus.
  I believe being on birth control without informed consent is fucked up, which is maybe what the person above meant by "drugged". what I thought they meant is comparing it to being on psychoactive substances which sounded silly to me.
  childism and women being treated like children is a huge issue in medicine, and I'm sorry you didn't get to assert your bodily autonomy.
  
  That was a very thoughtful and validating response. Thank you.
  
  Hormones most definetely effect the psyche. There is a lot of women who have strong psychological side effects from hormonal birth control.
  Denying and downplaying these, like this post seems to advocate for, is not in the interest of anyone except the companies selling the drugs and men who think they are entitled to rawdog without consequences.
  
  i hate to burst your bubble but the only people who wanna force women to be sex dolls are the anti-birth control and anti-abortion christofascists. also idk why you're bringing women into it because the original post used gender-neutral language. you don't need to be a woman to need birth control.
  there's no lobbying group that I'm aware of promoting an anti-sex ed agenda like you're implying such as "rawdogging is totally fine if you're on birth control, actually". that sounds like something an anti-feminist, an incel or a Christian theocrat would say.
  blaming misogynistic violence on birth control makes as much sense as blaming harmful sex attitudes on Big Condom because "this new technology allows you to fuck without worrying about pregnancy".
- patriarchies idea of how women should...
  How about women have the right to choose how they want to plan their families how they see fit
  
  For which they should know about the risks of hormonal contraception rather than it being swept under the rug.

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