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I think everyone should be able to choose whether to have kids. That includes men, but I am most concerned about women, who find fertility harder physically and of whom I am one. Contraception? Excellent plan. Abortion? Okay.

(Vaccines for STDs? Give them to everyone. "Even the Queen" shunts? Yes please. Sex-changing nanotech? Woo hoo.)

I've taken birth control pills: Dramatically failed to help with my awful menstrual periods. I wasn't having sex, so pregnancy wasn't an issue.
I've had Norplant for its full duration: Got fatter, but didn't have a period for a whole year. Remained non-pregnant.
I used the Nuva Ring for about six months: Periods much better, mentally foggy, migraines rescheduled but still present. Not pregnant.
I have not had an abortion, but I might decide on one someday and I'd like it to be readily available.

There are two themes here. One, I do not want to get pregnant, thank you. Two, quite a lot of my contraceptive use has been relevant to other health problems. That second one ties into the way pregnancy is neither a default state nor tenable for every woman. I am not my baby-making apparatus, and I hereby assert my right to have sex anyway.

Oh, and could we have some nationalized health care, please? Any time now.
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