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The Best of #ThxBirthControl
Wednesday, the pro-choice movement dedicated a day to celebrating birth control on Twitter with the hashtag #ThxBirthControl.
Most of the tweets we saw were the same old rhetoric about how women’s equality is only possible through access to birth control and abortion. However, some went as far as to say that:
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#BirthControl lets us take charge of our own destinies.”
(ok….It’s not education or the Force…)
“One-third of the wage gains women have made since the 1960s are the result of access to oral contraceptives.
#ThxBirthControl“
Suuuurreeeee….
Β The pro-choice movement believes this Twitter campaign was a success because a #ThxBirthControl ad was featured on a bus stop and at Times Square. However, not everyone bought into the “birth control equals women’s rights” mantra or that the pill is a magical pill of possibilities.
Here are some of the #ThxBirthControl tweets that caught our eye:
No one told me the pill could give me cancer. #ThxBirthControl
β Laura S Brown (@laurab_snm) November 12, 2015
For sending my happy & vibrant self on a nonstop rollercoaster ride featuring anger, anxiety & depression #ThxBirthControl #butnothanks β Jenny (@LittlestWay) November 11, 2015
Thanks for not working and giving me these two blessings π #ThxBirthControl #irony pic.twitter.com/f27nN1vsus β Nicole Gann (@Wifeskian) November 11, 2015
#ThxBirthControl for shrinking women’s brains?? https://t.co/JThVRFqCxb β Mary Rezac (@maryrezac) November 10, 2015
Purposely shutting down the female system to measure up to male standards of success is feminism!!!11!1!1!! #ThxBirthControl #butNoThx β Emily Allen (@MLE_Allen) November 11, 2015
Because being a woman is not a disease #ThxBirthControl #butnothanks
β Erin McCole Cupp (@ErinMCOP) November 11, 2015
For raising my risk of breast cancer and never telling me I could be causing abortions, #ThxBirthControl! #butnothanks β Christine J. Ω (@CatholicMomVA) November 11, 2015
@PPact 99% have used but how many regret it? I got a blood clot from the pill, causing permanent vision loss #ThxBirthControl #butnothanks β Jen Frost (@faithandfabric) November 11, 2015
I have two beautiful babies no #ThxBirthControl. So sorry for women who think they have to drug their bodies into brokenness. #NFPFTW
β Colleen Snow (@ColCol37) November 11, 2015
#ThxBirthControl for contaminating the world’s water supply and causing species of fish to become extinct. https://t.co/g4CdpXJ4H1
β Life Talk (@LifeTalkTv) November 10, 2015
#ThxBirthControl for being a contributing factor in my secondary infertility. I will never ever take birth control again. β BethM (@BethMcCall84) November 11, 2015
#ThxBirthControl for making women believe they have to sacrifice their health in order to be available to men.
β ME5702 (@ME5702) November 10, 2015
#ThxBirthControl for telling women their fertility is a disease.
β Justina Kopp (@justina_n_kopp) November 10, 2015
#ThxBirthControl: for lowering moral standards & raising the unplanned pregnancy & abortion rates β Susan V Brown (@AngryCBrown) November 10, 2015
Saying birth control gives you power over your body is like saying bulletproof vests give you power over guns. #ThxBirthControl
β Giovanni Alighieri (@GAlighieri3) November 10, 2015
#ThxBirthControl people,here’s a shocker for you:unless you’re a Catholic in confession,NOBODY CARES.We just don’t want to pay for it. #tcot
β Inez Feltscher (@InezFeltscher) November 10, 2015
#ThxBirthControl so that I can make fun of these costumes pic.twitter.com/EDQmNLj377
β Jenna Abrams (@Jenn_Abrams) November 10, 2015
If everyone is thanking birth control, why are we still crushing babies? #ThxBirthControl
β Jiwano Starshine (@JoshDamage) November 10, 2015
For real, people, it’s another marketing scheme. Do you even listen to yourselves? “Thank you inanimate object.” #ThxBirthControl
β Justin Schultz (@schultz812) November 10, 2015
.#ThxBirthControl for getting rid of all of those defectives! Nothing like a lil’ anti-human bile. pic.twitter.com/VO1J7rLf69
β Radiance Foundation (@lifehaspurpose) November 10, 2015
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