The frustrating thing about this, to me, as a man who has listened to women for a long, long time is that this isn't new...
There are well known problems with birth control and long-term use, increased risks of blood clots, not the least among them.
This truth is being leveraged by the right wing abusively, but it's why I knew a lot of leftist women who insisted on men using condoms every time and not subjecting their bodies to be a playground for pharmecutical companies.
I have personally known women who suffered damage from IUD's and problems from other forms of implanted birth control. I've known women who legitimately had depression because of it. I know women who have mental health issues whom it has been prescribed to as a mood stabilizer.
These problems have always been there to people who were aware of them. It alters your hormonal cycle, and thus alters a lot about how you feel.
It's sad that its being exploted by the right, and it's further sad that publications many assume are at least liberal like the Washington Post are taking the position that the entire thing is a right-wing psy-op, not that the right-wing is leveraging a real but often-not-discussed reality of modern womanhood.
Look, people, including young people, are fucking less than ever. More young women identify as LGBT+ than ever. The reality is whether on birth control or not, a lot of these women still don't want to fuck a lot of the men out there, and for good god damned reasons.
If you already aren't fucking, then deciding to not be on birth control really doesn't change much. So this seems like maybe its being blown out of proportion by the media for clicks. Good for women for taking care of their bodies. They're not ruining something by not taking birth control as long as they still demand other prophylactic birth control is used. I think people really overestimate how much fucking young people are doing. There's also a lot of bullshit on the internet and I think fewer people are using bullshit "alternative methods" than assumed.