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The Birth Control Pill: Providing Surprises In Life Allison Wang California Polytechnic University Pomona Professor Lord ANT 350 Research Paper Abstract The pharmaceutical field has overcome countless medical feats since the early times. While “the pill” itself was considered a brand new invention, the idea of creating a birth control pill was not. Since the old times primitive condoms were made from animal intestines and fish bladders. However, it wasn’t until after Margaret

Eliminating the prescription for Birth Control provides an increased access for everyone, encourages safe sex, reduces the effect of unwanted pregnancy and helps the economy. Birth control is a method of medication that prevents pregnancy for women. The birth control pill has been around for about 50 years and in 1916 a woman by the name of Margaret Sanger opened the very first birth control clinic in the United States and later served a 30 day sentence for it being labeled as an “unlawful nuisance”(Brief

transfusions. The prenatal care and instruction with birth defect deliveries was introduced about 1900 and was rapidly adopted through the world. Beginning with the development of hormonal contraceptive pills in the 1950s, OB-GYNs have also become responsible for regulating women’s fertility. With the development of amniocentesis, ultrasound, and other methods for the prenatal diagnosis of birth defects, OB-GYNs have been able to abort defective fetuses and unwanted pregnancies. At the same time

had a total of 18 pregnancies and died at the young age of 50. Sanger was one of the 11 children. As Sanger got older she established the first birth control clinic. Sanger is a hero because she left her nursing career to devote herself to the cause of birth control, She founded Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and first thought of creating the birth control pill that many women use today, All to support her main fight for reproduction rights. Sanger went to attend nursing school in White Plains

After the thalidomide disaster of the late 1950s, a great amount of scrutiny has been placed on the safety of a variety of substances during pregnancy, from swordfish to psychotropic medications. Psychotropic drugs are commonly viewed as unsafe for use during pregnancy, and women who use them are often judged as irresponsible. The decision to start or continue a pharmacotherapeutic regimen while pregnant is a difficult one, and there are many factors that a mother-to-be has to consider. Psychiatric

and coined birth control to become legalised. Margaret started her mission to legalise birth control in 1916, she was know as a racist for the reason she wanted to have birth control was to “get rid of black babies”, but she had also believed in women's rights. In a 1921 article, she wrote that, “the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.” which is why she helped start the women's rights movement and coined birth control

For thousands of years forms of birth control have been around. People have fought for hundreds of years to make birth control available to all women. Birth control was banned at point in the United Sates. According to the authors at Wikipedia.org, “Contraception was not restricted by the law in the United States throughout most of the 19th century, but in the 1870s a social purity movement grew in strength, aimed at outlawing vice in general, and prostitution and obscenity in particular. Composed

increase in premarital sexual activity. This only increased the rate of pregnancies in teenage girls. There has still been a decrease in actual teenage births as a result of an increasing amount of pregnancies being terminated from abortions (Kohli, 1995). According to Clemmit(2010), although there is still a lot of hype surrounding teen pregnancy and birth rates, teens have been less sexually activity, they have been using contraceptive, and getting fewer abortions more recently than they did in earlier

methods is called contraception or better known as “birth control”. Birth control stops the sperm and egg from coming together and forming a fertilized egg. Talking about birth control can no longer get you arrested, as a result, some debate discuss which methods can help the contraception process while others talk about whether insurance assistance should include the cost of birth control, the effects of its uses, and how to make the uses of birth control increase among sexually active young people

up their dreams of getting higher education or joining the work force. Until, in 1950, a woman named Margaret Sanger started the first birth control clinic in the United States just for women and this prompted a revolution. Women were finally given a chance in society to create their own future by using contraceptives and it has given them more power in America’s society. Now in the 21st century, women who use birth control gives them control over their fertility without a man’s input, improves standard