Do you want to regain control over your sex life and reproductive health? Do you want to no longer have to worry about unexpected pregnancies? 

 

The birth control bill simultaneously allows women to have authority over their own reproductive health, while also making them at fault for their own bodies. In “The Corporate Ideology of Consumption”, public health practitioner Nicholas Freudenberg explains how companies promote ideology that makes individuals believe they are in charge of their own health by choosing to buy or not buy products.(1) On one hand, women gain sexual freedom by choosing to take or not take birth control pills. However, this same ideology puts women at fault if they do end up getting pregnant. It is not reliant on their environment, education, socioeconomic status, or any other social factor. It is not the fault of the men they had sex with. Rather, their pregnancy is solely in their control as they had the choice to take or not to take birth control pills. Yet, the reach of birth control is far more than just in preventing pregnancies. Birth control allows women to reshape their bodies to be natural and normal. Birth control even plays a role in shaping and perpetuating normative society. If you don’t want to get pregnant take the pill. Simple as that. But that's not all you’re doing.