Weekly Response 3/21--Kellen Gable

The fact that birth control pills and other forms of female birth control are so expensive and fairly hard to come by is one of the many ways men and the government and the medical industry control women and what they do with their bodies. They have medicalized female birth control--you have to go to a doctor to get a prescription for pills or go to a doctor for an implant. Men do not have this problem. All they have to worry about is buying a five dollar pack of condoms and a lot of times they will not even do that because “they don’t feel good.” Neither does childbirth. And if a woman cannot afford birth control for whatever reason and she gets pregnant and isn’t ready and wants an abortion, she has to hope she lives in a place that has legalized it. The entire abortion and reproductive rights debate can simply be boiled down to the fact that men want to control women in any and every way they can.