Well. Back in the 80s and 90s, there was a political push to get teenage girls on birth control as part of teenage pregnancy reduction initiative.

So a lot of doctors pushed it on you, whether you were sexually active or not, the minute you started getting reproductive checkups.

When your hormones were already in a state of flux because all that is gearing up. Without studies having been done to ensure they were safe for girls of that age.

As soon as 'teenager' came into existence, so did the trope of the teenage girl, made significantly worse because of so many being on high powered hormones when in a state of natural hormone flux.

Don't forget, back in the day, those hormones were super harsh on the body, and there wasn't many other options, or reductions of dosage. And your doctor ignores you if you asked for help or complained of side effects.

Your ONLY recourse was generally to stop taking them and try finding another doctor. If you could.

If you were one of the many many young women who well and truly suffered on them, you don't have warm fuzzy feelings about hormonal medications. (Raises hand).

Then...

Years later, it's found that the longer you take them, the less effective they become and they weren't as effective back then as they are now anyway. So a lot of young women basically wasted years of being on birth control unnecessarily because they weren't sexually active only to have it fail them when they really needed it.

They caused other health problems down the road. Cancer, increased risk or all sorts of things.

And the doctors bullied you and lied to you to get you on them. Not uncommon at all.

So yeah. There's some backlash, and bitter feelings.

I gave my daughter the option. She wants condoms and spermicide, at least for now. But she's not sexually active. And now that the morning after pill is available without a prescription (at least for now), if something happens....there's that.