It's never been a more important time to care about birth control.
The purpose of this nonfiction work is to elevate our collective consciousness about birth control–the silent workhorse that prevents pregnancy, cancer, STIs, and other diseases, as well as manages dozens of medical conditions. The book explores questions such as, how has birth control changed over the years? Will there ever be a birth control pill for men? Why is birth control so politically controversial? Why are Black women more likely to prefer methods they can start and stop without a visit to the doctor? Are hormones in birth control safe? What impact will the overturn of Roe v. Wade have on the ability to get birth control? What does religion really say about it? Are there better methods out there, either right now or coming in the future?
On an individual level, birth control changes lives. There are countless stories of what birth control has meant for people, personally. Maybe it meant they could finish school before starting a family. Maybe it meant they controlled a medical condition like anemia or excruciating period symptoms. The benefits accrued across the millions of individuals using birth control have added up to huge societal impacts. When societies have greater access to birth control, women obtain more education, have higher participation in the labor force including occupations that require advanced education like law and medicine, and earn higher wages. Greater economic mobility for women contributes to a more gender equal society. Societies need birth control. We need birth control.
This book is a call to action: to develop our own curiosity and understanding about birth control and become informed advocates who support access to birth control for everyone, everywhere. We don't need to all become politicians or go to marches to make a difference. The first step is to understand birth control's history, its backstory, and its impact on the world, all of which will elevate our collective consciousness, an essential step to help us effectively advocate for its protection.
Protected will elevate collective consciousness about birth control-the silent workhorse that prevents pregnancy, cancer, STI's as well as manages dozens of medical conditions-and will appeal to anyone who has ever used birth control and those who are frustrated by political attacks on women's health and rights.
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Protected will elevate collective consciousness about birth controlthe silent workhorse that prevents pregnancy, cancer, STIs as well as manages dozens of medical conditionsand will appeal to anyone who has ever used birth control and those who are frustrated by political attacks on womens health and rights.
Introduction
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1. In the Beginning
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2. Strange Bedfellows
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3. It Takes Two
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4. The Magic Pill
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5. Shocking and Shameful
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6. Protecting and Promoting Access
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7. The Future is Now
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8. Not Just for Pregnancy Prevention
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9. #ThanksBirthControl
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10. Now What?
For more than a decade, Katherine Quimby has worked with reproductive health care agencies across the country at the federal, state, and local levels with the consistent mission of providing quality, person-centered reproductive health care. She has a Master of Public Health from Brown University. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two sons. This is her first book.
