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Stay tuned to find out how. It's intuitive to think you know you need two people to conceive a child and

currently our contraception options are almost entirely limited to one, you know, biological sex, people with

ovaries and a uterus.

That's Atlantic staff writer Katie Wu.

And when she puts it like that, yes, the math is so obvious. It takes two to make a baby,

and yet when I say Earth Control, we mostly think of one, the one with the ovaries and the uterus. I mean yes

there are condoms and vasectomies but the whole complicated apparatus of

birth control, the decades of hormones and doctors appointments and

implants and worry, and the costs, that's something mostly women have to deal with.

But of course it doesn't have to be that way.

Why didn't I realize that sooner?

I'm Hannah Rosen, this is Radio Atlantic,

and today, the rapidly advancing science of male birth control

As a science and health reporter Katie has followed this research for years

When we spoke I was curious and maybe even

hopeful to see if some of the impetus for the research was to ease the burden on

women. Here's Katie. There's a couple motivations, like certainly just having a little bit more equity in this whole world of family planning if there are two people participating in the conception of a child, if the goal is to actually prevent that, why shouldn't multiple parties participate?

It would certainly ease the burden on women who are the primary people having to deal with the

logistics of contraception, the side effects of contraception, paying for

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