Ep 60 Giving birth to "The Pill"

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Well, TPWKY listeners, it has been a heck of a year, and it’s not even over yet! But one thing has come to an end: our third season. Given the profound implications these next couple of months will have on the future of health and security in the United States, for our season finale we chose to cover a topic that’s near and dear to our hearts and minds: birth control. Have you ever thought to yourself, “I know this IUD/patch/pill prevents pregnancy, but how exactly does it do that?” or “How on earth did someone come up with this pill and then get it legalized?” If so, you’re in luck. In this episode, we walk through the basics of how the most common hormonal contraceptives work and then journey through the history of the various birth control movements in the United States. Finally, we wrap up with some of the latest developments in birth control technology (male hormonal contraceptives, anyone?) as well as the major legal decisions impacting access to birth control. We want to thank all of you fantastic listeners who have been with us through this wild year. You have made it all worth it! And fear not - we’ll be back with season 4 before you know it. Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss the first episode drop of the next season!

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0:00.0	I'm Kara Clank.
0:01.0	And I'm Lisa Trigger.
0:02.6	We're comedians and hosts of That's Messed Up, an SVU podcast on exactly right.
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0:20.1	This is Justin from The Generation Why and we're doing a four-part series unraveling the
0:24.3	story of Khalif Browder, a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held at
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0:41.6	My name is Erin Welch and I am co-host of this podcast will kill you.
0:48.3	I have been taking some form of birth control since I was 18 years old, so 15 years now.
0:56.4	And I've tried the various ones, I've tried the combination oral contraceptive, I've
1:00.7	done new varying and I currently have a hormonal IUD.
1:05.4	I started taking birth control because, well, it was a combination of things.
1:10.8	One was my periods were so bad that I was laid out in my house for two days, at least
1:19.4	every month, just in horrible pain, couldn't leave.
1:23.4	And also because I didn't want to get pregnant.
1:26.3	And as soon as I started taking the oral contraceptive, it was like a night and day.
1:33.0	Like, my, the pains were so much less, my periods almost disappeared.
1:37.8	It was like I was so, so grateful to be able to just, like, function normally as what
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