Reproductive Respect: The Missing Part of the International Women’s Day Conversation

by Jeanette Flood
Natural Womanhood


International Women’s Day was celebrated last week, on March 8, applauding women’s achievements around the world and calling for accelerated gender parity. While these are definitely worth celebrating, sadly, many who campaign for gender equality have a blind spot when it comes to contraception, championing it as foundational in the fight for equal opportunities for women. Few ever notice the gross inequality inherent in chemical contraception.

One physician who initially prescribed the Pill enthusiastically in the 1960s, Dr. Ellen Grant, soon noticed the harm it was wreaking in the lives of her patients. She looked into the studies and history of development of hormonal contraception and was appalled. She published her discoveries in The Bitter Pill in 1985. Nearly a decade later, professor Janet E. Smith mentioned Grant’s findings in a talk entitled, “Contraception: Why Not?” which Smith first gave in 1994; 2 million copies of which have since been distributed. 

Smith noted that Dr. Grant, discovered that there was an attempt to find a contraceptive for males as well as for females. As you will notice, there is no contraceptive pill for males. There is a reason for that. In the study group of males, one male had some slight shrinkage of his testicles. Thus, all testing on the male contraceptive pill was stopped, since that is intolerable. Among the female study group three women died.

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