laurenhill

Birth control isn’t about my health unless by health you mean, my capacity to get it on, to have a happy, joyous sex life that involves an actual male partner. The point of birth control is to have sex that’s recreational and non-procreative. It’s to permit women to exercise their desires without the sword of Damocles of unwanted pregnancy hanging gloomily over their heads.

It’s fascinating to me that this is an argument that has remained essentially unchanged since the beginning of the century. Birth control, whether in the shape of a pill or a condom, has always “euphemized women’s desires out of the current birth control and abortion disputes.” So why haven’t we learned yet?

Also this quote, “girls who have sex are much less likely to get admitted to a top tier school.” I’d like it to be known that I have a lot of sex. I am a happily promiscuous heterosexual woman who also happens to enjoy committed relationships and I go to one of the top ten college’s in the country. Suck on THAT.

(A correction/update: VA is ahead of Oklahoma on this one, we’ve passed the personhood bill, which does effectively outlaw hormonal contraceptives like, you know, the pill. It’s also highly problematic for women who have miscarriages. Is that murder? Manslaughter? This lovely piece of legislation is just waiting for the governor’s signature.)