Posted on 09/01/2019 3:05:08 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
For the past several years, many of us have seen headlines referencing the development of birth control drugs for men. It does seem like for too long women alone have borne the burden of pregnancy prevention, despite how baby-making requires two parties to take place. Further, since men are fertile 100% of the time, while women are only fertile about a quarter of the time in their menstrual cycles, it seems a little heavy-handed to put the responsibility solely on women, for couples hoping to postpone kids.
As it turns out, the history of birth control includes attempts to find a male contraceptive drug. One doctor who enthusiastically prescribed hormonal contraceptives to women in the 1960s explored this after she was dissatisfied to see the birth control side effects women were experiencing. What she found, and documented in her 1985 book The Bitter Pill, was that male birth control options also brought unsavory side effects. The only difference was that the discovery of these side effects halted developments of drugs for men, while women’s drugs continued to be widely prescribed.
Professor Janet E. Smith expounds on this in her much disseminated 1994 talk Contraception: Why Not? Commenting on how Dr. Grant found the attempt for male contraceptives had stalled, Smith explains, “There is a reason for that. In the study group of males, one male had some slight shrinkage of his testicles. Thus, all testing on the male contraceptive pill was stopped, since that is intolerable. Among the female study group three women died.” Jeanette Flood expounded on this last year on the occasion of International Women’s Day: “In the first two years of a contraceptive patch for women, at least six women died, possibly more. Why is this acceptable?” It’s a good question.
(Excerpt) Read more at naturalwomanhood.org ...
If male contraceptive is ever completed and sold, no woman can blackmail a guy again with a child.
Catholic Church is 100% right on this issue.
Which is why it will never be allowed to happen. If men had the ability to choose when they could intentionally impregnate a woman.......the welfare state would not exist 30 years later.
, it seems a little heavy-handed to put the responsibility solely on women,
Ummm...you only have to stop one egg, not millions of sperm.
Don’t show off your stupidity...
“Professor Janet E. Smith expounds on this in her much disseminated 1994 talk...”
Heh,heh! She said “disseminated”!
It is also true that in spite of serious side effects and even death, research continued for female contraception, while milder side effects halted male contraceptive research.
Easily reversed sterilization is what they should be developing, instead of tinkering with hormones.
“What’s the Status on Male Birth Control?”
The zipper was perfected some time ago, although it never really worked for me for that intended purpose. Nor should it...lol!
Where your gym cap
Once again, men get stiffed.
“Easily reversed sterilization is what they should be developing, instead of tinkering with hormones.”
A little shut off valve in the vas deferens would do the trick.
Why is this acceptable?
Because women will put up with it? I’ve advised woman I discussed the subject with to stay the hell,away from the pill, unless, you know, they’re stupid.
“If male contraceptive is ever completed and sold, no woman can blackmail a guy again with a child.”
Never say never.
Gentlemen: Only ever stick it in your wife.
Ladies: Only ever spread ‘em for your husband.
Since no method is 100% effective, a leftist, man hating judge will always be able to assess child support based on that .01% chance..
Men have impregnated women after having vasectomies. Men have been assessed child support for kids conceived by a cheating wife even when the DNA proved they were not the father.
Needs to be dumped into the water supply in every shhthole country.
I’ve never seen a phonier “look” on a person’s face than that clip right there. We dodged a huge bullet in 2016.
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