I'm alright with people not wanting to take it. It's your body, elective contraception is beyond the scope of what is medically necessary and you have full right to say no to elective medication. But stating fear of getting fat as a reason is a stupid one. Also, that book seems like propaganda if anything. "Why can't we criticize the pill?" The book was published in 2013, not the mid-1900s when the pill first came out. All people do is criticize BC. Seriously, very few women detail their great experiences with it. It's like a business. No one is happy with its service until they receive bad service. We've come a long way from then and it's stupid to believe that it's full of evil. If you don't want to take it, fine. But writing a whole book to complain and whine about it when plenty of people have been ok with it is just a scare-tactic.