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The main thesis of this essay is that the use of birth control is stated to be "unnatural", this then becomes intertwined with "nature" thus nature becoming the logical connection among feminists attempts to gain control over one's own reproductive freedom. The main argument for this thesis is that nature has become the enemy, a "natural disaster" in which women produce child after child; nature becomes as despicable as those linked with it; female, the …

…is as true as it is for men, men are not judged for the decision to not have children, yet women are. The freedom of birth control that we experience now seems to be only acceptable until a certain point, when a woman never has children she is still viewed as different. Controlling one's own reproduction should be a right not a privilege, the very idea of sporadic, incessant pregnancies against ones wishes terrifies me.