Over the last few weeks, a long-sleeping beast was awakened: the debate over access and the affordability of birth control, women's health care, and abortion.*Who should pay for it? Who shouldn't? What is basic health care, and what is vanity medication? And consistently, the perception has remained that, by and large, men are the ones controlling the conversation. Which is partially true--a lot of non-uterus-having individuals are doing an awful lot of talking about an issue that directly relates to the uterus (like that all-male joke of a congressional panel)--but it's also misleading, because a lot of women are taking part, too. You just may not know they by name, or realize they impact that they're having on you and your ovaries. More »Post from: Blisstree