Brian Lear 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 writes that listener. A few people cited this line spoken by

Julia Louis Dreyfus very famous line from Veepe, 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 as much as it's a burden for me to worry about birth control

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