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Elizabeth Banks: I Thank Birth Control Pills for My Son Just over a year ago, my son Felix was born via gestational surrogacy. He came out of me nine months early and because of my broken belly, his babycake was baked in a wonderful angel’s oven and now — I can’t believe it — he’s a year old and walking. He has expanded my capacity for joy a thousand-fold. His life would have been much harder to come by if not for the birth control pill. How’s that, you ask? Well, it’s a simple fact: The pill is used for many situations that have nothing to do with the prevention of pregnancy. The pill was prescribed to me when hormonally induced migraines kept me locked up in dark rooms for days at a time. It was prescribed to me to regulate insanely painful cramps every month — cramps so painful that I often vomited. And here’s a little secret I am happy to blow the lid off of: The pill is often prescribed during the IVF (in vitro fertilization) process to help MAKE BABIES! That’s right, women dealing with infertility are often put on the pill to help regulate a cycle so that they might have a more successful IVF. The pill is used to manage ovarian cysts, endometriosis and other conditions too. Not to mention, it helps couples plan for wanted children. Obviously, I’m not a doctor. I’m just a woman grateful for my necessary and very helpful medication. And I’m sure glad I don’t have to discuss any of these conditions, including infertility, with my employer. A girlfriend and I recently wondered what would be more mortifying: having to tell her male employer she needed birth control to mitigate a heavy flow or just bleeding all over herself in the office? So with that image in mind, I encourage all women — and the men in their lives — to protect access to birth control, and encourage our politicians to take women’s health issues out of the political process. For more information, please visit the most comprehensive and willing advocates for women’s health in America: www.plannedparenthood.org.

Elizabeth Banks: I Thank Birth Control Pills for My Son

Just over a year ago, my son Felix was born via gestational surrogacy. He came out of me nine months early and because of my broken belly, his babycake was baked in a wonderful angel’s oven and now — I can’t believe it — he’s a year old and walking. He has expanded my capacity for joy a thousand-fold.

His life would have been much harder to come by if not for the birth control pill. How’s that, you ask? Well, it’s a simple fact: The pill is used for many situations that have nothing to do with the prevention of pregnancy. The pill was prescribed to me when hormonally induced migraines kept me locked up in dark rooms for days at a time. It was prescribed to me to regulate insanely painful cramps every month — cramps so painful that I often vomited.

And here’s a little secret I am happy to blow the lid off of: The pill is often prescribed during the IVF (in vitro fertilization) process to help MAKE BABIES! That’s right, women dealing with infertility are often put on the pill to help regulate a cycle so that they might have a more successful IVF. The pill is used to manage ovarian cysts, endometriosis and other conditions too. Not to mention, it helps couples plan for wanted children.

Obviously, I’m not a doctor. I’m just a woman grateful for my necessary and very helpful medication. And I’m sure glad I don’t have to discuss any of these conditions, including infertility, with my employer.

A girlfriend and I recently wondered what would be more mortifying: having to tell her male employer she needed birth control to mitigate a heavy flow or just bleeding all over herself in the office?

So with that image in mind, I encourage all women — and the men in their lives — to protect access to birth control, and encourage our politicians to take women’s health issues out of the political process.

For more information, please visit the most comprehensive and willing advocates for women’s health in America: www.plannedparenthood.org.

(Source: selinameyers, via iliketulips)

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This is one of the most inspiring videos I have ever seen. It will both make believe you can do anything and make you feel like you have never put effort into anything in your life before this day. 

I think it has the true way to be successful in whatever you want to do in life. It’s worth the watch, trust me.

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Time to let go…

I don’t want to cause you pain, I don’t want to see the hurt in your eyes as you know I am the type of person who would do whatever it took to make someone smile, I do not want to cause confusion or doubt, I can only express my emotions to you, I can only offer you so much. I loved you, I still do, and a part of me always will, but sometimes it is obvious that our time has passed and maybe it will come again, and maybe it won’t, but I can’t keep seeing the hurt I cause you, I can’t keep hurting myself with these mind games. My heart and my love is NOT a game, just as I don’t see yours as an object to abuse and destroy. You can accuse me of not offering a second chance or running away which I always seem good at, but for far too long I have always trusted my heart to lead the way and every time it has ended me broken down and heart broken so I am finally going to trust my head, my intelligence and intuition to walk away and let you be free. Find the happiness you deserve and in the end only God knows who our soul mate is, and if it is to be each other, then God will find a way to make it known, to make it right, to bring us back together…and if we are not, then He will bring us to those who are…I simply can NOT do this anymore…I’m sorry…

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Just a few pictures of some of the most amazing friends any girl could ask for. THe dance was…a little less exciting than originally planned but we alwasy have fun together! No crazy stories to talk about this year but overall it was a great time - because there was not one conversation about school!!!

Well now that I have recovered from my hangover it is time to finish studying for my awesome amazing so exciting community exam (NO sarcasm added in that sentence at all)

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