While birth control pills give women more autonomy over their bodies and sexual freedom, it also makes women solely responsible for pregnancy and childcare. Because common birth control pills are only made to prevent pregnancy in women, not to stop men’s ability to impregnate someone, women, not men, must manipulate their bodies if they want to avoid pregnancy. Furthermore, due to the notion that one is completely in charge of their own health, if a woman gets pregnant, no blame is on her environment or surroundings, no blame is on the man. Since she had the choice to take birth control pills, it is her fault alone. She becomes completely responsible for the health and wellbeing of that child because she "chose" to get pregnant. This, in turn, upholds society's beliefs about the female body and childcare. Sociology professor Norah MacKendrick illustrates how during, before, and after pregnancy “women’s bodies [become] subject to intense scrutiny” as [they] become sites that bear and transfer risk, and their actions and choices are mechanisms that bear and create and mediate risk.” (1)  Because they are seen as solely accountable for their child, “mother’s are increasingly expected to eliminate all health risks to children” that men are not expected to do. (2) Thus, as birth control is believed to give women total control over their own bodies, it also continues normative gender roles that put women fully in charge of pregnancy and childcare.