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insert_something_creative's avatar

I too started on birth control around 14 because I had such horrible cramps, I couldn't walk. My period was also extremely irregular, so it's not even like I could count on only having them once a month. I remember being doubled over in pain in the cafeteria in high school. Birth control allowed me to live pain free with regular periods. It took a few different types before I found the one that worked for me, and it's been smooth sailing since.

Fuck all of these assholes who are trying to take this away from us through junk science and misogyny. Not only do they want women to become pregnant younger, they also want us confined to home, unable to live our lives because our periods are so awful. They either don't know or don't care that birth control has a lot benefits beyond preventing an unwanted pregnancy.

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Karen's avatar

Who raised Charlie Kirk? They should be ashamed he even opened his mouth because nothing good comes out of it. He is not ready to leave home yet. My gosh, he knows nothing. He is limited and really just needs to shut his mouth. Something is wrong with him. He needs some education, man-training and some intensive counseling how to develop healthy relationships with people. Please somebody help him. He is vulnerable and pathetic right now.

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Tessie's avatar

"The longer women remain single and childless, the longer they tend to be dependents of the state"

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As much as I am intrigued by this new spin where single working women, rather than "teenage welfare mothers", are the ones getting help from the government, this is literally the opposite of true.

"Over three-quarters of all unmarried teenage mothers began receiving cash benefits from the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program within five years of the birth of their first child (Adams and Williams 1990). Indeed, 55 percent of all AFDC mothers were teenagers at the time of their first birth, and 44 percent of AFDC mothers were unmarried teenagers (Moore et al. 1993a; Zill 1996)."

https://webarchive.urban.org/publications/308015.html

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Tessie's avatar

"The longer women remain single and childless, the longer they tend to be dependents of the state and therefore Democrat voters. The fewer times they go on maternity leave, the more soulless hours they can clock for their corporate bosses."

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Would it be asking too much of you to make up what passes for your mind, Charlie? Are single women "dependents of the state", or are they clocking more hours for their corporate bosses? You DO realize those two things are mutually exclusive, right?

...Right?

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"The longer women remain single and childless, the longer they tend to be dependents of the state and therefore Democrat voters. The fewer times they go on maternity leave, the more soulless hours they can clock for their corporate bosses."

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"Don't be a slave to capitalism! Be a slave to patriarchy instead!" is not the winning argument you might think it is, Chuckles.

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Tessie's avatar

My brain: Oh, this is the guy who dries up pussies like the Sahara.

My brain: No, you're thinking of Ben Shapiro. This is Charlie Kirk.

My brain: I said what I said.

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Tessie's avatar

“creates very angry and bitter young ladies and young women.”

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As people will do when they're reduced to livestock.

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Wondering Woman's avatar

If you needed any additional proof that Republicans are complete idiots and hacks on this issue, they claim to hate abortion but won't embrace the two things that have been proven to reduce the need for it: sex education and birth control. Personally, the three things that most impacted my personal freedom are tampons, birth control, and the internet.

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Tessie's avatar

"claim to hate abortion but won't embrace the two things that have been proven to reduce the need for it: sex education and birth control."

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They claim a lot of things, but what they ACTUALLY hate is non-reproductive sex. They need a steady supply of cheap labor, cannon fodder, and impoverished women.

Anything that would stand between an orgasm and The Miracle of Childbirth [tm] nine months and five minutes later is on their shit list: Abortion, birth control, LGBTQ rights, sex ed, masturbation, feminism, oral sex, IVF (maybe) -- every single thing they're against (with the sole exception of people with skin darker than classroom chalk) can be viewed through this lens.

If you loathe and fear sex (and therefore believe that it should be punished with children), you are "moral" in their worldview, no matter what else you do or don't do.

If not, then you're "immoral".

That's it.

That's all of it.

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meh's avatar

Thom Hartmann put together a remarkable piece a few weeks ago detailing Russell Kirk's 1951 book "The Conservative Mind from Burke to Elliott," in which he explicitly noted the following (I'd put up a link but I can't get to it any longer; it's paywalled).

"Kirk warned that if too many people got into the middle class and were no longer “the fearful poor” that there’d be chaos in America. He warned that women would no longer respect their husbands, racial minorities would forget their “rightful place” in the social order, young people would defy their parents, and society would go to hell. The solution, dictated back in the late 1700s by British conservative Edmund Burke, was to gut the middle class and return to the “normal” social form of a small number of really rich people at the top, a tiny middle class of doctors, lawyers, and professionals who served the morbidly rich, and a massive class of the working poor."

This is what motivates the GQP. It's about ensuring that they have a desperate base who will accept subpar conditions bc there is no bottom, and they can sink below the surface and not leave a trace. It's evil and deliberately cruel in order to benefit oligarchs....and I'm sure we can all identify a few parts of the world where the masses are already in this sort of parlous no-safety-net situation.

Horrifying and inhuman.

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Joe Max's avatar

There's a word for those who practice the "rhythm method" of birth control.

Parents.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

yes, they are spreading medical disinformation.

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Homero's avatar

This is another example of why the rich need to be taxed more so they can stop making douchebags like this dependent on wingnut welfare and make him realize what actual hard work is.

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

"Life is difficult" Now you tell me?

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Mike_Cramer's avatar

Spreading dangerous lies that drag civilization into Stone Age barbarism without fear of punishment.

Between freedom of speech, press, and religion along with the Second Amendment, it has obvious that our precious “Bill of Rights” is a fucking suicide pact.

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

"Life is difficult" Now you tell me!

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Stuart's avatar

The pill "increases depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation."

Not far from where I live there's a billboard -- sponsored by the CDC -- warning us that cannabis increases depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation. Maybe everything in modern life increases depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation.

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Wondering Woman's avatar

That's pretty much true these days - depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation are everywhere.

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Sojourner44's avatar

I suspect that even his fist would turn him down.

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Malcolm Campbell's avatar

"Late last month, the Washington Post published an article about the issue of birth control misinformation and the fact that teens are getting bad information from TikTok and other social media, particularly from “influencers” telling them to do the rhythm method instead of taking birth control."

Everyone I know who relied on the rhythm method became unplanned parents.

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Karen's avatar

I can’t imagine teens using it. You have to have a regular cycle and be in touch with when you ovulate. Teens usually have erratic cycles for a while and unlikely to be successful. Hence the old joke. My catholic mom of 5 used it😜😜

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Stuart's avatar

That's an old joke. "What do you call women who rely on the rhythm method?" "Mothers."

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