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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics

The pill, Puerto Rico and the patriarchal medical system

Woman holding up a packet of contraceptive pills
‘The onus is on medical practitioners to develop better birth control methods, rather than trying to quash concerns about the pill.’ Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA

Your article on contraception misinformation does not consider the long history of medical misogyny (Online misinformation putting women off contraceptive pill, study finds, 13 September). I am a PhD researcher studying the cultural discourse on contraception. I’m also a young woman within the age range and online culture that you talk about, and within my work I explore this space critically.

Effectively, it is wrong to assume a value-neutral background when researching attitudes to contraception, a medical technology that is only available to us now through historical injustices enacted upon women, especially women of colour.

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