This book is mind blowing. I learned so much, and everything in this made me glad I stopped taking hormonal birth control in any form a few years ago. While this research is predominantly around the birth control pill, I would argue the same arguments could be made for other forms of hormonal birth control.

This book is a summary of the research available, all of which is centered on cis women, and I would wager likely white women. The author makes an excellent acknowledgment of this in her introduction. Regardless of your gender or sex, there is something to be learned by ALL people. Perhaps this book would make men take more responsibility for birth control in hetero relationships, and be more understanding of what women go through both on the pill and off.

A major takeaway for me was there are more than 7 million women currently taking birth control pills worldwide. When you factor in the changes the pill makes to those women, the pill doesn't just change women. It changes the world.