Sarah Hyland Had the Perfect Response to This Troll Who Thought Birth Control Is Just for Sex
Sarah Hyland has never been afraid to serve up some righteous justice/logic on Twitter. Case in point, her spot-on response to paparazzi who were trying to get her to bash Modern Family co-star Ariel Winter. “y’all digging for something you’re never going to get,” Hyland tweeted as a response, adding in the laugh-cry emoji for a splash of extra defiance. Then, there was that time this summer when she burned Vice President Mike Pence after he touched a casual bit of space equipment at NASA that clearly had a “DO NOT TOUCH” sign in front of it (the capital letters were real). So when a Twitter troll showed up on her feed in support of President Trump‘s egregiously awful rollback on the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate, she was not about to let him get away with it.
It started on Friday, when Hyland tweeted some outrage about the stripped contraception protections into the Twitterverse:
Of course, those on both sides of the issue had plenty to say, but one fan in particular really got her goat. His tweet has since been deleted, for reasons that will shortly become clear. But Hyland’s response hammered home an important point: birth control is not just for women looking to prevent pregnancy when they have sex. It’s for women looking to control abnormal or irregular periods, endometriosis, and numerous other medical conditions that all relate to the lovely functions performed by cisgender women’s reproductive parts.
The ability to afford birth control—or, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, the guarantee that it will be free through insurance—is necessary for some women who experience chronic suffering when it comes time for their periods. The user who sent the tweets later said that he tweeted apologies twice (and maybe he’s shifted his perspective on the matter after a torrent of tweets directed at his misfire).
Unfortunately, however, the fact that birth control has important, critical purposes beyond preventing pregnancy is something that the men who still largely control women’s healthcare just don’t get.
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