I recently got an IUD, and it’s been one of the best things I’ve done for myself. The doctors were amazing and educated me on all my options. As a young woman in college who is sexually active and also partakes in a party scene, I feel safer knowing that if someone took advantage of me or if I had unsafe sex, I would not get pregnant. Babies are great, but not for a career woman at age 21.

Male bodies don’t have to live with the consequences of pregnancy, but I would. It’s hard to understand how much our society needs access to birth control when you aren’t the one who will face the true cost of an unwanted pregnancy.