Brian Laird on WNYC, a couple of short follow-ups from our last two shows on Friday.

We did that segment on misinformation about IUDs and birth control pills being spread on social media,

largely by cultural conservative interest groups. And at the end of that segment, I invited

listeners to text us on a hypothetical question, what kind of public conversation would we be

having about hormonal birth control if it had to be taken by men rather than women?

And I said I would read some of your responses on the air if we got interesting ones, and we did.

So here are a few that people wrote in.

Listener writes, as the old saw goes, if men could bear children, abortion would be a sacrament.

Another listener writes, Brian, you read my mind. If men were the ones responsible for birth

control, there would be many more studies, many more answers, and better products.

Another one, my boyfriend can't wait for birth control and refuses to believe there would be any side effects.

I mock him for that based on how the pill has impacted me, but in the back of my mind, I believe him.

There will probably be so much more time and money invested in protecting the poor baby men from any discomfort.

Ha ha, ha, writes that listener.

A few people cited this line spoken by Julia Louis Dreyfus, very famous line from Veep.

If men got pregnant, you could get an abortion at an ATM.

I know that was about abortion, not birth control, but then that was adapted by one of you to,

if men took birth control, it would be available

at your local ATM. And finally, a few of you pointed out a potential downside of men being the

ones who have responsibility to take their birth control pills. One listener wrote,

As women, we would have to trust men who would tell us they are on hormonal birth control.

As the person who would bear the responsibility of pregnancy, would I take the risk and trust what someone is telling me?

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