Let’s play a game. Make a list of all the birth control options you can think of that are available now, or were used in the past. Then go down that list and mark which ones that are – or have been – the responsibility of the female to take care of, and which ones are the responsibility of the male. And tally up the difference.

If you did it right, you’ll notice that you’ll get two lists of very different lengths. Women have always largely been in charge of birth control practices, and this year, that responsibility was celebrated by the 50th anniversary of the Pill. The creation of the Pill, and all the versions that have come since then, have meant numerous positive additions to available birth control options for women. But that’s the problem; they’ve only been available for women. And this past summer, a study of more than 50,000 African-American women headed by Boston University epidemiologist Lynn Rosenberg found that among those women who had ever taken a birth-control pill, there was a 65 percent increase in a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer….

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