• JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
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    26 days ago

    My sister had her first child because her birth control failed due to another medication making it less effective.

    No one warned her about that being a thing that can happen with that particular med. Not her doctor. Not the pharmacist. No one said a thing… which is super fucked up. She was married at the time, but still. They were not ready for a kid(their words)

    This was almost 20 years ago so I don’t remember which med it was, and I’m hoping the medical community is better about this now.

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      26 days ago

      It’s really honestly amazing that there are so many people in this world that don’t understand that, A, married couples use birth control and have regular sex and, B, that birth control can fail.

      Are they all incels are something?

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        26 days ago

        Unfortunately, a lot of people who are under the influence of religion believe that marriage is for creating children, and many of those people received very little to no sex ed.

        The ideas that “every child is a blessing” and “God will provide” are used to handwave away the importance of people’s bodily autonomy and to deflect the reality that people can and should have access to the resources to chose if, when and how many children they have.

        I’ve taken to calling them reproductive luddites. They’re afraid of contraceptive technology.