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Women and their Birth Control

An open conversation about the impacts of hormonal birth control on women's lives. This project is supported by the Richard Crawford Campbell Jr. Memorial fund at Dartmouth College. Please reach out if you want to talk.

Anger

When Melissa started dating her first boyfriend, she decided to get on birth control. She wanted to use hormonal birth control as contraception partly because she’d heard it could help with acne, but also to spite her conservative Christian mother, who had forbidden her to use birth control. Melissa was eighteen years

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Control

Lucy was always a good kid. She worked hard in school and stayed out of trouble – her parents hardly had to worry about her. Sex, though, was her one act of rebellion.

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Another Form of Birth Control

Helen had an abortion in 1971, when she was 21 years old. She started using hormonal birth control shortly after that, before finally having her tubes tied in 1978.

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What you need

When Josie was in high school, she used the birth control pill as contraception. She’d heard hormonal birth control was more reliable than barrier methods – and her boyfriend at the time didn’t like using condoms anyway

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Scientifically Rebellious

Alice works for a company called Adyn, which developed a "Birth Control Test" to help women understand what side effects a birth control may have on their body before using the birth control.

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"r/Nexplanon – Dizziness?"

When Sloan was seventeen years old, she had a Nexplanon implanted in her arm. Shortly after, she began experiencing random fainting spells.

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A Different World

Rose graduated from an Ivy League university in 1953 with a degree in English literature and dreams of building a career in publishing, but many companies refused to hire women.

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Feeling Brand New

Cassie got her first period when she was ten years old. From then on, she menstruated about once a year. By the time she was fourteen, she had a good sense that something might be wrong. She knew periods were supposed to happen regularly, and she often heard her friends complaining about their “time of the month.”

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Self Defense

In a world where girls learn that their bodies are not their own, Hana feels birth control is presented to women as a substitute for bodily autonomy.

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Pain Relief

After Diane graduated from college in 1977, she joined the Peace Corps and was prescribed the birth control pill for the first time. As a single woman going to live and work in a foreign country with limited access to healthcare, she was advised to take the pill “just in case,” as an unplanned pregnancy could

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Very Easy, Very Legal

Nora had an unwanted pregnancy when she was 29 years old, so she had an abortion. In the eighties, abortions were "very easy and very legal," and Nora is grateful she had options.

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