Lorde Is Right, Ditching The Pill Is Political—But Not Because Of Conservatives

“I’ve now come to see my decision was maybe some quasi right-wing programming,” she admitted, “But I hadn’t ovulated in 10 years. And when I ovulated for the first time, I cannot describe to you how crazy it was. One of the best drugs I’ve ever done.”

While that's probably one of the most honest things a pop star has said about their body in a long time, Lorde’s choice of words also reveals something deeper, and more troubling, about the cultural minefield women have to tiptoe through when they make health decisions that don’t align with progressive orthodoxy. She had to preface her decision with a nod to “quasi right-wing programming” because apparently listening to your body and embracing its natural rhythms now gets you side-eyed as a secret tradwife in disguise.

Who’s Really Politicizing the Pill?

Despite plenty of liberal media-fueled panic, no one is showing up at women’s houses to confiscate their NuvaRings. The real cultural shift isn’t political, it’s simply biological. More women are waking up to the idea that hormonal birth control, while helpful to some, also comes with a host of tradeoffs. We’re talking mood swings, depression, decreased libido, nutritional depletion, blood clots, and, as Lorde discovered, the total suppression of one of the body’s most powerful cyclical processes.

And yet, when women express discomfort or skepticism about being medicated 24/7 to disable a functioning reproductive system, they're often met with accusations of being misled by “right-wing influencers” or “anti-science rhetoric.” Never mind the thousands of women sharing their stories on forums, podcasts, and Substacks. Never mind the growing body of research showing how much we still don’t know about the long-term impact of hormonal suppression.

The truth is that the left has tied hormonal birth control so tightly to abortion politics that it’s nearly impossible for liberals to talk about it as a health issue without immediately jumping into fear-mongering about Handmaid’s Tale futures. Meanwhile, the right is embracing the more "hippie granola" take: track your cycle, understand your body, ditch synthetic hormones if they’re wrecking your mood and making you feel flatlined.

In fact, most of the skepticism toward the pill today doesn’t come from religious people. It comes from "crunchy" women and moms with seed oils banned from their pantries and Taking Charge of Your Fertility on their nightstands.

When Ovulating Is a Radical Act

Lorde’s realization might sound strange to some, but anyone who has gone off the pill after a decade can probably relate. Suddenly, you’re not just existing, you’re living. You have highs and lows, increased libido, creativity spikes, real PMS (not just birth control bleed “periods”), and, most of all, a reconnection with your body’s rhythms. To feel all of that after a decade of hormonal flatlining can be exhilarating. Scary, even. But ultimately empowering.

And maybe that’s what terrifies the progressive crowd. A generation of women learning to trust their own bodies again, to track their cycles, to ask questions, to reject the narrative that their reproductive system is inherently dangerous or untrustworthy? That’s not just inconvenient for the pharmaceutical industry, it’s threatening to the entire ideological framework that links “freedom” exclusively with chemical contraception.

A New Cultural Era for Women’s Health

At the end of the day, the goal isn’t to shame anyone for being on the pill or off it. It’s to acknowledge that informed consent requires information, and right now, the loudest voices still belong to those who treat hormonal birth control like it’s sacred.

But the tide is turning. Lorde isn’t the first high-profile woman to go off the pill and speak openly about it, and she won’t be the last. The question is: How many more women need to say it before the media stops calling it "dangerous?"

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