Who Should Have a Say on a Woman’s body? Let’s Say a Woman? A Man?
There’s some confusion in the public sphere regarding a very simple question: If you are a person with a uterus, who should participate in your contraception-related decisions?
Here are the options:
A) Everyone! Everyone should have a say! Particularly ancient men in elaborate cloaks! This is a democracy, damn it!
B) Two people: you and your doctor.
This sketch from the inimitable Amy Schumer gives us an idea of what option (A) looks like:
The correct answer, of course, is (B). It is always (B). It will never not be (B). Please stop pretending otherwise.
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