Meritxell Guàrdia i Serentill has written an extensive and juicy article on the website of Pikara Magazine. The Spanish health system prioritizes hormonal contraceptives in “stable relationships”, regardless of natural methods and methods to be managed.

Medicine says other methods are not effective. On the contrary, the World Health Organization (WHO) assures that they have a 95% efficiency. The use of alternative hormonal contraceptive methods requires that women know their body and their menstrual cycle well, and those opposed to the use of hormonal contraceptives consider that medical institutions have little interest in promoting this type of method. In fact, the use of the diaphragm or natural planning requires that women (and if they have a partner) be educated and that takes time. As Ana Moreno says, “give women the power of self-management and believe in their abilities”.

The gynecologist Enriqueta Barranco goes further and says: “Let us not forget, many times, patriarchal science controls, through birth control, the fertile, even half-hidden, women. The industry undermines effective methods of self-management of fertility and thus weakens the self-confidence of women who have given up their violent proposals.”

The author of the long article has also developed other branches of the same subject. Guàrdia says that men, intentionally or by accident, have been excluded from many family plans. Currently, there are only two contraceptive methods: condom and vasectomy. Very few tests and clinical studies have been conducted to find a chemical contraceptive method for men, medical technology has always worked on women's fertility. Beatriz Preciado goes further. According to the philosopher, male hormones are used to masculinize and sexualize man, while female hormones are aimed at controlling women’s sexuality and reproductive capacity.

The author has worked on the side effects of hormonal contraceptives. The pharmaceutical industry Bayer, in its last financial report (June 2014), has estimated the cost of meeting 8,900 lawsuits at $1.8 billion, after thousands of American women have reported side effects caused by the birth control brands Yaz, Yasmin, Ocella and Gianvi. The author of the article lists the positive effects of hormonal contraceptives first and then the negative effects in the short term and in the long term. It should be noted that hormonal contraceptives are not only used by women who want to control fertility, but also against acne, hirsutism (hair growth) and baldness.