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One Weird Side-Effect of Roe V Wade Going Down?
Men may finally be forced to be responsible for their own fertility
Just this week news of a brand new birth control pill for men was released. In lab trials, the pill is 99% effective at preventing pregnancy in mice, and human trials are set to begin this year. You may recall a few years ago, when a hormone-based birth control pill for men was being tested, but because of the side effects, development for that pill was scrapped. This new pill, GPHR-529, isn’t hormonal — rather, it works by disrupting the way vitamin A interacts with the body, temporarily inducing sterility in males. In trials, male mice were fertile again a few weeks after stopping the drug.
The timing couldn’t be better.
Sometime this year, probably this summer, the Supreme Court will hear a case out of Mississippi challenging Roe V Wade, and most people expect the current court, which has been packed with six Catholics hostile to reproductive rights, will overturn Roe V Wade, leaving abortion rights entirely up to individual states. This means abortion will effectively become illegal in large swaths of the US, especially across the South and Midwest.
If that happens, and people are forced to birth babies they can’t afford, I predict we’ll see more and more states — and…
