At least sixty-two percent of women use some type of birth control or contraception. Many women complain about birth control because they don’t want to gain excessive weight. That to me sounds ridiculous because either you gain a little weight by taking birth control or you gain a lot when you actually become pregnant. If you don’t want to put your life on hold, then I suggest you think of methods to avoid becoming pregnant if you are not ready for such a big responsibility. I’m not saying it’s bad
In the mid twentieth century, Margaret Sanger started a movement to make birth control more accessible so women could control the size of their families. Birth control is critical for women’s rights, they can't have their place in society if they are at having babies constantly. Smaller families benefit the kids because if the parents have only a few children, they can afford to provide those children with the things they need to succeed in life. Parents with large families would not have the capacity
help an unexpected pregnancy and encourage the soon-to-be mother to work even harder to get to where she wants to be in life so that she can provide the ideal life for her family. For those ladies who do not have the support, an option of free birth control at the expense of medical insurance should be offered. It has been said that it is a woman’s decision to commit the actions necessary to become pregnant therefore she should be held accountable for her actions and raise her baby or just be abstinent
risk for their rights being restricted. Despite the improvements of access to birth control, led by Barack Obama, the recently elected president, Donald Trump, seeks to repeal these actions and ban birth control. It is important to keep birth control legal because of its impacts on the U.S. economy, the restriction of women’s right to choose, and health benefits of birth control. One primary reason to save birth control, is to protect our economy. An important benefit from contraceptives, is the lowered
improvement of women’s health, and the promotion of gender equality, education, labor participation, and finical readiness. However, for others, the practice of birth control has resulted in a direct violation to the preservation of morality and religious teachings. More specifically, the Affordable Healthcare Act’s requirement to offer birth control part of employer-sponsored insurance plans has infringed on the right to religious freedom and the conservation of God’s law. Therefore, as a result, the Trump
are unintended.”3 With this alarming number of teenage girls getting pregnant, all birth control options should available for a teen and not restricted. The reasons for making birth control options available are: Will reduce teen pregnancy; will reduce the number of teenage abortions; and will give the teenager more responsibility. The opposing view believes abstinence is the answer. Making birth control more assessible will help teenagers finish their high school education then get a good
parental consent will lead to the increase of teen pregnancies. More than 77% of women experience sex for the first time by the age of 19 (Frisco, 2005). Through the study of women’s health a student of gynecology will better understand the need for birth control to be available to teenage girls without parental permission. For many years we have seen the rise of teenage pregnancies. Many have looked for ways to help this crises by opening clinics that provides free services such as STD testing, free
controversial subject in America today is Birth Control. Birth control is a contraceptive that contain estrogen and progestin to balance out a female’s hormones. Birth control has been around since the 1960s and was approved by the FDA in 1957. Some people argue and say that you should have to require parental consent to obtain the contraceptive and others say that a parental consent is not even necessary. Teenagers should be allowed to get birth control without their parental consent because it
comprehensive sexual education and for teens to be able to access contraceptives. Some lean more towards abstinence only education in the hopes teens will steer away from sexual activities. There are also scattered clinics where teens can receive birth control. For many parents, this term conjures up images of teenage sex or pregnancy, which can cause them to ignore its
planet if we make birth control completely accessible. Unintended children, as much of a blessing they may turn out to be, come with a financial and environmental tax that everyone has to pay. These children contribute to overpopulation, which is directly connected to climate change. The literature supports this as well. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2014), cites a study “estimating a 30 percent decrease in emissions by 2100 if women without access to birth control were provided