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Article: EDITORIAL: Why we need male birth control
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- June 20, 2007
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Staff Editorial
University Wire
06-20-2007
(Daily Texan) (U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas -- Men are the new women -- well, sort of. The role men play in society is changing just as much as that of their female counterparts. In the social aspect, women are joining the workforce, and men are becoming more prominent in the home (thus, the creation of the "stay-at-home dad").
In science, men have become more visible too. With DNA testing for paternity, finding the father of a baby is a swab away in most cases. Amid national debates about abortion and women's fertility choices, we tend to forget the other half of the situation: men.
In 1960, women inadvertently became the focus of contraceptive studies ...