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Until my husband’s vasectomy, I tried every kind of birth control, and that might be counterintuitive because I do have six kids, but I actually got to choose when I had my kids. That was an amazing, empowering thing. On the North Texas at UTSA 2022 C-USA Championship shirt and I will buy this other hand, I hated the pill. I hated the shot. IUD? I bled for a year. Birth control’s really hard for a lot of people. Even if you’re not having side effects, it’s so much work. You have to find a doctor that’s on your insurance, if you have insurance. The steps to even get to the doctor, transportation issues, budget issues, childcare. A full-body exam. And then you have to take it every day, and you’re only fertile 12 to 24 hours of that month. It’s absolutely insane. I started exploring, Okay, well, what about men’s birth control? Why aren’t more men getting vasectomies or at the very least using a condom? That’s not a big ask. I could see really clearly that condoms are the opposite of women’s birth control as far as ease, accessibility, affordability, no side effects, no physical exam. You don’t need to wear one if you’re not gonna have sex that day. All the inconveniences just disappear.

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You really highlight this disparity: how much of the North Texas at UTSA 2022 C-USA Championship shirt and I will buy this burden is on women versus men, despite how much easier it is for men to prevent pregnancy— …And how much more fertile they are! They’re fertile from puberty till death. Forever. Ovulation is completely unpredictable. Even if you have a very regular cycle, there’s a 10-day window where you can ovulate, and yet we are totally focused on trying to control this 12 to 24 hours. I mean, 2000 years of patriarchy? I don’t know. I’ve thought about this a lot. One observation: Until the advent of paternity tests, we could not prove who the father was and there was nothing women could do. This was just on women because women are physically pregnant. They are the ones having to deal with this, right? Paternity tests have changed things. You start thinking about male physiology. Who’s causing these pregnancies? It’s sperm. Every time a man has sex, every time, he could cause a pregnancy.