dailywire.com
2026-02-23
Perhaps the most common feature of the flurry of articles about young women rejecting hormonal birth control is the claim that their concerns are fueled by "misinformation" or based on "unfounded theories." I'm a younger millennial. I've never used hormonal birth control, and I don't plan to. But what these writers and doctors fail to grasp is how fed up women are of being told their pain is normal and prescribed a pill at 13, only to be told they have "unexplained infertility" and need IVF at 30.
It doesn't take a medical degree to hypothesize that women's healthcare has gone terribly wrong. It is almost entirely structured around either suppressing or bypassing the female reproductive system altogether. When journalists and doctors claim women like me are misinformed, they reject an opportunity to help make women healthier.
For 60 years now, the standard of care for women in the United States has been a protocol that seeks not to understand and work with the female body, but to inhibit and short-circuit it. It's no surprise that the women who watched their mothers and grandmothers unquestioningly swallow the pill and continue to suffer are now demanding a better way.