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The episode discusses the issues surrounding women's healthcare and the rejection of hormonal birth control by millennial women, featuring guest Katelyn Walls Shelton.

It doesn’t take a medical degree to hypothesize that women’s healthcare has gone terribly wrong. It is almost entirely structured around either suppressing or bypassing the female reproductive system altogether. And it’s why women like Katelyn Shelton are rejecting hormonal birth control. She joins us with more. Further Reading Why I Won’t Use Hormonal Birth Control Follow Katelyn on X Katelyn’s Technically Human blog Guest Info Katelyn Walls Shelton is a Visiting Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Bioethics, Technology and Human Flourishing Program. She is a women’s health policy expert and, as a 2025-2026 recipient of the Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship, is conducting a year-long research project on reproductive biotechnology and human nature. As the former Special Assistant for Global Women’s Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Ms. Shelton assisted in executing the Protecting Life in Global Health Policy (PLGHP) initiative at the United Nations and World Health Organization. A former Paul Ramsey Bioethics Fellow, she often writes on women’s reproductive health and the beginning of life. Katelyn received a master’s degree in ethics from…

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