Letters to the Editor
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Wouldn't it be nice?
If they can get it work, they can also presumably get it to work on ovarian tubes, ie easily reversible tubals, and wouldn't that be nice too? Give both sexes real control of their bodies and reproductive choices.
Because the fact remains that all current birth control methods suck. The Pill messes with your libido and health, IUDs have serious complications for many women (and once you understand how they really work, can be kinda off-putting). Plan Bs and abortifacts (and abortions) are really not the way you want to go for ongoing family planning, and mechanical systems (diaphragms, cervical cups, condoms) are a pain in the ass, mood killers, and, in the case of condoms, can have a severe impact on the quality of sex (at least for this male type person anyway).
The only really effective & manageable solution is sterilization (which does nothing for STDs, but that is another issue), the reversibility of which is problematic at best. So yeah, if they can get this working for both sexes, hooray, but the idea has actually been kicking around for decades, with no particular success. The key isn't the groovy high-tech business of the remote control, it's making the damn things work at all.