It Is Far Beyond Just Population

What is overpopulation? Overpopulation has been defined as a situation where the number of people in an environment exhausts all available resources weakening its needed support. (Morse &Mosher) For years there have been reports of how many people are expected to live on earth by the year 2050, 2075, and so on. However, the question remains as to whether everyone will have a secured spot. Today, in 2017 there have been plenty of fights with the scarcity of resources, where overpopulation becomes the topic of conversation. However, to solve this issue the option of abortion was brought to the forefront by scientists and advocates such as Dan Savage who mentioned that abortion should be mandatory for the next 30 years in or to control the

Starting in November of 1912, “What Every Girl Should Know” by Sanger was being published every Sunday in The Call, a commonly read socialist newspaper. Within her articles, Sanger covered puberty and the changes that occurred as a result, the functions of the reproductive system, and the causes and ways to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. At the time, the Comstock laws were in place which defined contraceptives obscene and made it illegal for information regarding contraceptives to be sent through the U.S Postal Service. For this reason, “What Every Girl Should Know” was no longer allowed to be published, the last article published was blank except for the words “What Every Girl Should Know. NOTHING! By order of the Post Office Department” (qtd. in Lader 37). Refusing to give up, Sanger prepared herself to fight the Comstock Laws and provide the women and girls of New York with information about contraceptives and their bodies. From 1913 to 1914, Sanger travelled to Paris. At this time in Europe, contraceptives were much more accepted and information was plentiful. Sanger spent her days researching and gathered a collection of information on the best and latest douches, sponges, suppositories, and pessaries. She also bought some of the devices to bring back with her to the United States. Having gathered enough research, Sanger headed back to the United States. In

Overpopulation is an issue that many persons fail to bring attention, but don’t know the underlying effects that it can have on the United States itself. The hardships of overpopulation, affects the economy, the available of resources, and also the success of the future generations to come. Without much thought, someone may have children not knowing that it can affect the livelihood of the future generations who plan to land that job or that position they were aspiring to get. There are those individuals that continue having children, knowing that they are not financially capable of supporting another innocent child. In result this negatively affects the quality of living. If there are more births, it foreshadows that there are more jobs to be created, which causes employment hard to acquire, nevertheless, causing the economy to make a turn for the

During World War II U.S. soldiers were supplied with condoms, another way of birth control, however it’s less effective than other methods we have now, such as the pill. Harvard historian Allan Brandt wrote in No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal

Contraception is a word commonly used in society today. With hundreds of types, brands, and methods of contraception available, it is hard to imagine a world without it or one in which it was against the law. However, decades ago at the turn of the 20th century, birth control was not easy to get or looked upon as socially acceptable. It was during the First World War that society began to see the emergence of contraception and its acceptance. Readers can also see its emergence in Regeneration on page 128, as Billy Prior propositions his new love interest by stating he "always paddles with me boots on," a reference to the fact that he, as an army man, always wears contraception when having intercourse. With this background, we can now see

In the expository styled documentary entitled Don’t Panic: The Truth about Population by Hans Rolling, he presents and supports the argument that despite the world’s growing population and the many challenges associated with this, there is still the possibility of creating a bright future for the generations to come. The universal truth presented throughout the documentary is that education helps people to evolve. Education is necessary for the development of future generations. This is observed through the quote “In my mother’s day, they use to get married young they had no chance to study. But now we can have big dreams of becoming a doctor or an engineer”

This essay will examine the historical demand for and prevalence of birth control in the United States. The history of birth control in the U.S. begins long before the infamous 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision affirming the legality of abortion.

As the eighteenth century transitioned into the nineteenth century, views on reproduction and sexuality changed. The way that women and men were viewed and treated in instances of unwanted pregnancy and premarital sex began to shift. The views of the church, government, and medical world also began to shift. This is when an opposition to abortion and contraception which is felt in today’s political climate truly began to develop.

In 1864, a medical officer found that at any given time, one in three cases of sickness within the British army was caused by a sexually transmitted disease, likely contracted from prostitutes. This led to the enactment of the euphemistic ‘Contagious Disease Act’ which allowed any woman perceived by police to be a prostitute, within a ten-mile radius of a garrison town, to be forcibly detained and examined for evidence of a venereal disease. If such a woman were found guilty; she could be locked in hospital for up to a year to receive compulsory vaginal examinations as well as lessons in morality because she was considered a ‘fallen’ woman. This approach would be sexist and cruel if enacted today but at the time it seemed to be the clearest and least jarring method of managing sexually transmitted diseases, by sterilising the environment in which they fester. Sexually transmitted diseases were such an important public health issue for Britain that

With the advancing in society, Women began fighting for another belief, birth control. Birth control only was only made available during the 20th century, but it was highly frowned upon and in some cases, illegal to be seen with. The invention of birth control was seen to be one of the most influential factors throughout the 20th century. With the creation of birth control, it’s main focus was to limit population control whilst still protecting women. Contraception during this this time became a major concern among women. It became such a concern that they feared experimenting with men due with the high risk of pregnancy. The history of the pill began when the founder, Margaret Sanger, opened a birth control clinic. Sanger was a women activist

Sexually transmitted diseases were a quiet priority for nineteenth century Britain. STDs or venereal diseases were a significant cause of ill and efficient troops around the country as well as in the colonies. It was a ‘quiet’ priority because of the aversion to open conversations about sex in Victorian Britain but the need to have British soldiers less footloose and more fighting-fit. These diseases were a high priority for the British government as they enacted a law solely to attempt to manage the contraction of the infections. The social stigma surrounding sexually transmitted diseases meant that women and women’s morality was targeted to manage venereal diseases rather than targeting the ‘primal’ behaviour of soldiers and other men of

Mail by the Comstock Law, together with "obscene, lewd or lascivious" publications. See U.S. v. Chase, 135 U.S. 255, 257 (1890); Andrews v. U.S., 162 U.S. 420 (1896). As a result, condoms were sold for prevention of sexually-transmitted disease (i.e., "prophylactics"), not as contraceptives.

The establishment and implementation of China’s One Child Policy embarked on intense effort to address population control. Promoting birth control and family planning in 1949 the People’s Republic failed to control the growth of China’s population due to sporadic and voluntary participation

Before contraceptives (1918-1960), sex and conception was a natural and spontaneous occurrence that was not carefully planned or calculated and it was a practice mostly confined to marriage with men being the more learnt of the sexes in they homosocial milieu in which they occupied. Moral standards were high with sexual knowledge of all kinds were often seen as "sleazy" or unrespectable. (Kate Fisher, 2006)

Technological advances in terms of contraception have impacted on the way different people experience sexuality throughout history, but the extent to which they shape these experiences is a highly contested topic. The introduction of the oral contraceptive pill in the early 1960s is often attributed as the spark of the ‘sexual revolution’ as it put the power of a woman’s fertility in her hands, but I will argue that the feminist movement of the 1970s (as a social factor) had more of an effect on the sexual freedom of women than the contraceptive pill (as a technological factor). The pill provided a safety net against the ever-looming threat of pregnancy, and a method in which to exercise female sexual control, while feminism gave rise to the social conditions that allowed for them to exert that freedom.