If you think I should be holding women more accountable for preventing pregnancy, then you’re in luck: Women are already held accountable for preventing pregnancy. Women already do the vast majority of the work of pregnancy prevention. The burden of birth control, the effects of birth control, and the consequences of failed birth control are essentially entirely on women. Interestingly, when I point out that women are currently expected to do the vast majority of pregnancy prevention, I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone say, “This can’t be right. This seems too unequal; it feels wrong.” The
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