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Birth Control Restrictions Are Especially Dangerous for Menopausal Women
Contraception does so much more than just prevent pregnancy. It’s one of the very best ways to regulate hormones and manage the symptoms of menopause.
Menopause can be brutal, with severe symptoms of night sweats, insomnia, hot flashes, and mood swings to name a few. Women experiencing this need relief— and birth control is often the answer.
But imagine a world in which menopausal and perimenopausal women can’t access birth control pills to regulate their changing hormones because some strangers decided that sex should be dangerous again.
That’s exactly what some Republicans have argued for— to bring the consequences back to sex.
Mark Robinson, Lieutenant Governor for NC, “said he thinks young women are more likely to be promiscuous if they use birth control,” saying they just “get this under control” while repeatedly waving his hand near his groin.
“All this giving out of birth control and advising people how,” Mark Robinson, LG for North Carolina, said. “Here’s how you don’t have a baby: You don’t have what you do to make a baby until you’re ready to have that baby.”
Robinson isn’t the only elected leader against protecting contraception.
Arizona Senate Majority Leaders, Sonny Borelli, said “Bayer Company invented aspirin. Put it between your knees,” suggesting that women wouldn’t need access to contraception if they kept their legs closed.
What are people like Robinson and Borelli not talking about? The far reaching ramifications of restricting birth control pills for women of all ages.
In addition to the extreme symptoms of menopause, unregulated hormones have been linked to increased chances of developing uterine cancer and ovarian cancer.
Were these the consequences lawmakers had in mind when they pushed their anti-birth control agenda? Probably not — but they are real risks women face all the same.
Now, menopausal women are standing up for themselves and demanding the government protect the right to contraception FOR ALL before it’s too late.
