While writing her latest book, Not Just a Period, Dr Hazel Wallace, a former NHS doctor and health influencer, says she “stumbled across a dark corner of social media” where “widely exaggerated” claims were being made about the combined oral contraceptive pill, more commonly known as “the pill”.
In this dark corner, Wallace noticed creators talking about how the pill was damaging women’s bodies, causing infertility and other “often incorrect claims”. It’s an online movement that, she says, has led to the pill “currently going through a bit of a rough patch in terms of its public image”.
This move away from the pill isn’t all too surprising for Wallace, given…