...Birth control is the practice of preventing unwanted pregnancies, typically by use of contraception. Contraception means prevention of conception or impregnation. Birth control means restriction of the number of offspring by means of contraceptive measures, projects, programs, or methods to control reproduction by either improving or diminishing fertility. Birth control involves one or more actions, sexual practices, medications followed to intentionally prevent or reduce the likelihood of pregnancy or childbirth and devices. The three major routes of birth control to prevent or end pregnancy include contraception the prevention of fertilization of the ovum by sperm cells, chemical or surgical induction of the developing embryo/fetus, and the contragestion preventing the fertilized egg from implantation known as the morning after pill. Contraception is the use of various drugs, devices, sexual practices, agents, or surgical procedures to prevent conception or impregnation. Contraception helps plan if and when one becomes pregnant. The condom is the only current contraception device that helps protect sexual partners from sexually transmitted infections. Contraception use as well as abortion is the red hot issue in the contemporary times. Females in the United States of America have become accustomed to contraception and abortion. Several conditions are undesired for getting kids into the world. Hence, there are several motives for the utilization of birth-control...
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...people. Not only would birth control help to slow the population growth rate, but it can also help to prevent the high rate for infant deaths (Miller et al 2012). Less than 5 percent of people in most countries in Africa use contraceptives (Rengel, M 2000). If this number was higher and more people were aware of the benefits of birth control, and it was accessible to them, it would help everyone and the planet overall (Rengel, M 2000). 2) It is only reasonable to accept that birth control is not merely a matter of morals, but also of ethics (Steinbock, B 2011). It may be immoral to prevent conception, but it is unethical to willingly allow ourselves to cause unwanted pregnancies that will result in more destitution. 3) As a counterpoint to the second anti-birth control argument, developing a market for contraceptives may in fact reduce the number of women victimized by those who want them to be sterile (Gordon, L 2002). Contraceptive methods have not caused a decrease, but rather an increase, in the sexual freedoms of women in developed and developing countries alike (Lysaught et al 2012). If women are able to use contraception, they may be able to prevent becoming pregnant and being subject to cruel treatment. Against: 1) Religious or moral convictions. The idea of deliberately preventing a human life from forming contrary to nature and/or God's law can be very disturbing to many people. Religious adherents vary widely in their views on birth control. This can be true...
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...Subsidized birth control would keep women off welfare The state currently has $118 million in unused welfare funds. Instead of using it for corrective action, we should look into using it in preventive ways. Instead of paying people after they have children and have fallen on hard times, why not offer some money to use long-term birth control (LTBC) such as Norplant? Imagine if the state allocated money to clinics so that LTBC would be free and the women volunteering for it would receive $500. This would greatly appeal to college students, those on financial aid, the hungry/homeless and the drug addicted. None of these people are in a position where having a child would be beneficial. In New York City a program like this was implemented. In the first nine months 838 women took advantage of it. Prior to having LTBC those women had a combined total of 1,322 abortions, with some having had 15. When a "drug baby" is born the medical costs often exceed $100,000, and the child is prone to strokes, seizures, ADD, heart and respiratory problems. The cost of the implant (around $500) and the money paid to the woman for getting it is a small price to pay to avoid these abortions, medical costs and all the children's suffering. Often a family lives paycheck to paycheck. A family like this might not be able to afford $500 for birth control, and if they have another child it could be enough to financially break them. LTBC could help a family like this avoid going greatly in debt...
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...Birth Control: Availability to Teens. Many teenagers today are very sexually active and take the risk that comes with sexual intercourse. Education is our number once source in getting sexual information out to our teens: “We have got to start educating our teenagers by introducing the ABC's for sexual education. "A-abstinence; B-be faithful; C-latex condoms." (Rosenthal 113). A type of contraceptive, also called birth control, is to do just that: control birth. Teen and teen births are greatly rising over the years due to lack of education, contraceptives, and finances. Teenagers now days do not wait till a certain age to become sexually active, more and more teens are starting at a younger age. Whether they are having sex or engaging in another form of sexual activity. “The principle behind age-of-consent law is that teens below a certain age are not mature enough to make an intelligent decision about engaging in sexual activity. Twenty-six states set the age of consent for medical making decisions at twelve years of age, yet no state sets the age sexual consent at less than sixteen. Some states provide no provisions for sexual relations between teens of the same age, provided that they are older than twelve, but there is always a penalty if one of the partners is a certain number of years older. Teens are no better prepared to make decisions about their medical health; so then the school or other public authority should inform the parents. Supporters of the lower age...
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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 Sanger’s multiple convictions and persistent attitude, that a judge ended the Comstock era, providing Sanger with the opportunity to stress the importance of having birth control in th for of a pill to the public. In less than a decade after Sanger persuaded Pincus to begin working on the contraceptive, Pincus created a pill that tested to be 100 percent effective. However, in 1957, while the Food and Drug Adminsitration approved the pill, it was not approved as a contraceptive but rather as a treatment for women that experienced sever menstrual disorders. It was not until 1960 that the drug was actually approved as a contraceptive. Despite this, many controversies arose from the contraceptive leading to its many transformations. Because the original pill had many side effects that were largely ignored, a newer pill with a smaller dosage was created, coming with a decreased risk of developing ovarian cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, and deficiency anemia in the users. Later on...
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...WORLD ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST BIRTH CONTROL Argument 1 for Birth Control: Birth control paves the way for responsible family planning. In today’s hard times, it is but a couple’s due diligence to properly plan for family life. Planned pregnancies ensure that both the soon-to-be father and mother are ready for the daunting task of taking care of a child. Planning for a family entails not just financial investment but emotional investment as well. Until the couple is ready to face the realities and hardships of parenthood, birth control must be practiced. It may be accomplished via 100% abstinence from sex or thru other medically acceptable means. Birth control helps any couple to engage in sexual relations while controlling the timing of when they would start a family together. Argument 2 for Birth Control: Birth control saves lives and reduces abortion. The conscious decision of birth control and the access to various methods have proven effective in the prevention of unwanted pregnancies. There is an extremely large possibility that unwanted pregnancies lead to abortion, especially for countries that are non-Catholic. It is also a fact that during childbirth, there is a high risk of death as well. If birth control is practiced, you prevent unwanted and untimely pregnancy and you do not only save the unborn child but the mother as well. Argument 3 for Birth Control: Birth control prevents destitution or utter poverty. Providing quality of life to one’s...
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...Birth Control 11/18/14 History21 Emma Goldman was one of the first one to speak to speak out on the topic of birth control. Goldman recognized that without birth control a woman, either married or single could not really enjoy sexual freedom and pleasure without the fear and worry of unwanted pregnancy. Few birth controls were available to women in the 1920’s, women were to used condoms, douching and withdrawal, and the most common practiced for birth control was illegal abortion. Also many women died from the effects such as is bleeding and infections and improperly performed abortions. If a woman was wealthy she was most likely to be able to afford an abortion, but if a woman was poor she would not it not be able to afford for this kind of procedure done, so she would make home remedies using herbs or using other methods such as inserting hangers, hooks and knitting needles inside themselves. Emma Goldman, hoped that birth control would helped woman to control their own sexuality and to have an alternative to abortion. Today, we have many safe and a number of effective birth control methods available to us, and not only for women but choices for men as well. There is also a lot of information available to learn which method is best for our body and to fit our needs. Birth control comes in different options from pills that needs to be taken everyday, to injections that are due every 90 days to implants, to Intra-uterine devices that are placed into a women’s uterus...
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...All women and men should have control over if and when they become parents. Making decisions about birth control, or contraception is not easy - there are many things to think about. Learning about birth control methods you or your partner can use to prevent pregnancy and talking with your health care provider are two good ways to get started. There is no "best" method of birth control. Each method has its own pros and cons. Some methods work better than others do at preventing pregnancy. The birth control method you choose should take into account: your overall health, how often you have sex, the number of sexual partners you have, if you want to have children, how well each method works, any potential side effects, and your comfort level with using the method. Let’s take a look at Contraceptive Pill. It was invented in 1960 and led to a revolution in the history of contraception by enabling women to control their menstrual cycle. Some fifty years later, after many new inventions were added to the list of contraception methods, the pill remains the main form of female contraception. The advantages of using the Pill is that: It’s very effective against pregnancy if used correctly, menstrual periods are more regular and lighter, it decreases menstrual cramps and acne, you are less likely to get ovarian and uterine cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, ovarian cysts, and anemia. And it doesn’t interrupt lovemaking. The disadvantages of using the Pill are the cost or...
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...Time U.S. “When the Portland, Maine, School Committee voted 7-2 Wednesday night to make birth control pills available to middle school girls as young as 11. The response provided the latest evidence that adults still have trouble talking about sex with each other, much less with our kids. The debate was passionate, as you'd expect over an issue that touches so deeply our concerns about what our kids know and do — and when — and the messages we send them. To school officials and public health advocates who favored the measure, this was a question of confronting reality. Five of the 134 students who visited King Middle School's health center last year admitted they were sexually active; in the last four years, Portland's three middle schools reported 17 pregnancies, not counting miscarriages or unreported pregnancies that ended in abortions. Parents may be in denial, officials suggested, they may fervently want children to delay sexual activity, but if you know for a fact that kids are having sex then the responsible thing to do is to warn them about sexually transmitted diseases and help prevent them from getting pregnant. The message was not "value neutral": "We do certainly sit down and speak with them about why that's not a good choice," said Portland's school nurse coordinator Amanda Rowe, referring to sexually active students. "But there are some who persist — even though we don't like to think about that — in being sexually active, and they need to be protected." And...
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...You and your classmates differ widely in your familiarity with this topic. 1) You may be unmarried and have not thought much about it yet. 2) You may be married with a family and have used birth control at some point. 3) Some of you have been badly disappointed by some method of birth control. 4) You may view birth control use as unscriptural. Can you see the high value in doing some research on this as a group and then—lovingly, humbly and modestly—sharing your conclusions with each other? This could be a tremendously valuable board especially for the younger members of the class. This is an opportunity for ministry! To prepare for this board, do research using four reference sources: Scriptural statements about life’s sanctity and God’s authority over creation of life. In your textbook’s chapter on human reproduction, the section on “Control of Birth” The course Presentation entitled “Birth Control Issues” Trusted web sites dealing with birth control issues/methods Below is a set of six general categories of birth control that you will evaluate for your classmates: Pills/patches/rings (estrogen + progestin based) Sympto-thermal + condom/diaphragm Intra-uterine devices (such as ParaGard, Mirena) Surgical – vasectomy (male sterilization) Surgical - tubal ligation (female sterilization) Male withdrawal during sexual relations. Preparing for your Thread: 1. Compare each of these six categories against the following four criteria: a) protects the...
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...with Birth Control Policy in China PART 1. My first statement containing rant and emotion. My View of Birth Control Policy in China One thing makes me furious is the birth control policy in China. One family one child is a bit of thick. True, it’s an effective way to reduce population, but a great number of fetuses were killed before they see the world every year and nobody could tell how many families lost their only child by accidents and no more happiness in the families. The only-child is like a king in the family, parents give him whatever he wants. Over time he thinks everyone should treats him well because he considers to deserve this. So most of the kind of children become very selfish and lonely. Besides, it is such a pressure for those cheapskates to support their old parents, not only on the score of money but time. The more time on parents, the less time on work. No work, no money. How could they support their parents without any money? It’s a paradox! What worse, most of the post-80s don’t know how to care about others, even they don’t know how to care about themselves. The policy is most controlling urban families but not rural ones. Most of the urban families have ability to bring up more than one child and offer a good education, however, they only have one child. In rural area families have at least two children but with low education. Is it the purpose of birth control, to nurture more and more less educated people? PART 2. My “Go Public”. Birth control...
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...substances were used in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as in medieval Europe and early colonial America, with varying degrees of success and safety.”("Birth Control Movement.", 2)All throughout history...
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...January 15th 2012 Com/220 Argumentation assignment The speech I chose to read instead of hear was “The morality of birth control” by Margaret Sanger (1921). I chose this speech because I have worked in the healthcare field for over 10 years now, this subject truly catches my attention. Its also the reason why for my final project I have chosen to speak about abortion and pro choice debates. After reading the article I picked up on bias’ right of the bat. The fact that women have been viewed as immoral for wanting to control the size of their families or to act as responsible adults. Margaret talks about how many different groups were invited to the conference that was held and everyone acted with dignity except one group. This group was the religious “church” going individuals. This group views birth control as a “sin” so to speak and think it’s against gods will. I can vouch for this personally. I recently took a new job almost three months ago with a very well known catholic organization. We have amazing benefits except they will not cover ANY form of contraception or fertility treatment. This means I have to pay out of pocket for my prescriptions of birth control. A choice I have chosen as a single/divorced mother of three. I don’t want to have any more children, but in their eyes I am being immoral. To me some of the fallacies or misconceptions with this issue that they are basically stating that religion and worship make a person moral. How can that be when...
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...Alexandria Sweatt SOC 424 DR. Gemelli Media Review#2 The advertisement that I chose for the week’s blog was a TV ad for birth control called nuvaring. I have seen numerous advertisements regarding to the use of birth control but nothing like this ad. This commercial shows a group of women together explaining to convenience of being on Nuvaring. As a personal user of this certain method I have to agree with majority of the stuff they were saying in this ad. The idea that the commercial is trying to promote is the convenience of this contraception method that will not hinder your day-to-day schedule. It also promotes to women who have heavy menstrual cycles that they have the advantage to skip their cycle every other month. Of course, in the commercial it promoted the positive main points regarding this contraception. Commercials such as the one I selected also made experiencing a menstrual cycles an “ease” as a main point, when in reality we know that all experiences are different. What I liked most about the advertisement is how they gave so much key information in a little bit of time that a woman like myself could relate to if I was considering getting on birth control for the first time. Birth control for any woman should be consulted with their caregiver before being prescribed. The thing I liked least about the advertisement is the mum silence they had when it came to listing their side effects. Anybody before accessing contraceptives should know the list of side...
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...Well, birth control was largely illegal in the United States for much of the 20th century, so maybe one of your questions could be how people gained access to it prior to its legalization, as well as the social stigma surrounding birth control, and how some women were stuck with raising more children than they could handle because of the difficulty in obtaining birth control. Another question you could cover is the nature of abortion procedures prior to its legalization. Birth control as a movement in the US has had a very uneven relationship to movements for women s rights. Discuss early birth control reform efforts in relationship to issues of gender and class power. Birth control was an early-twentieth-century slogan, but it has become the generic for all forms of control of reproduction. With the spread of agriculture and the economic advantages of large families, religious and in some cases secular law increasingly restricted birth control, with the result that there appears to have been an increase in reliance on abortion while contraceptive technology and use declined. Both practices were legal in the United States until the mid-nineteenth century. Birth control as a movement in the US has had a very uneven relationship to movements for women s rights. Discuss early birth control reform efforts in relationship to issues of gender and class power. Birth control was an early-twentieth-century slogan, but it has become the generic for all forms of control of reproduction...
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