According to Emergency Contraceptive Pills, “About 3.5 million unintended pregnancies occur each year in the United States; roughly half (1.7 million) of these result from contraceptive failure” (Trussell et al. 269). With these numbers, people need to be more aware and take precaution of having unprotected sex. Hearing that my friend had unprotected sex with her boyfriend made a million different things and emotions run through my head. I knew I had to be strong for her, since she was freaking out and did not know what to do. The first thing I told my friend to do was call a doctor and make an appointment right away. The office was closed for the weekend, so the next available appointment would not be until the following week. Since I am
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So I thought I would share some information about it with her. The combination birth control pill is a pill that you take by mouth for 21 days and then a placebo pill for 7 days and the cycle repeats every month. The pill contains estrogen and progestin that prevents ovulation. Ovulation is when a woman’s body produces an egg that is able to be fertilized by a male’s sperm to become pregnant. With the high levels of estrogen from the birth control pill it prevents the woman to ovulate and drop an egg. The progestin in the pill makes a woman’s cervix thick, making it hard for a man’s sperm to get through and fertilizing an egg. On the 7 off days, the inner lining of the cervix is removed causing the woman to bleed. If the birth control pill is used correctly it is 95 percent effective. Depending on the person, there are some side effects like blood clotting, vaginal discharge, nausea, irritability, and depression. (Hyde and Delamater, …show more content…
A women should not be the only responsible partner for using protection. A man can use a condom that has about a two percent failure rate. A condom is a thin latex cover that fits over the male’s penis. A condom has to be put on correctly to be effective. The effective way to put on a condom is by pinching the tip to make sure to keep air out and then rolling it onto the erected penis. The condom catches the male’s sperm and prevents it from fertilizing the woman's egg. The only side effect of a condom is either if the male or female is allergic to latex. A condom may also protect a man and a woman from sexually transmitted diseases that can be passed from having sexual intercourse (Hyde and Delamater,
So I thought I would share some information about it with her. The combination birth control pill is a pill that you take by mouth for 21 days and then a placebo pill for 7 days and the cycle repeats every month. The pill contains estrogen and progestin that prevents ovulation. Ovulation is when a woman’s body produces an egg that is able to be fertilized by a male’s sperm to become pregnant. With the high levels of estrogen from the birth control pill it prevents the woman to ovulate and drop an egg. The progestin in the pill makes a woman’s cervix thick, making it hard for a man’s sperm to get through and fertilizing an egg. On the 7 off days, the inner lining of the cervix is removed causing the woman to bleed. If the birth control pill is used correctly it is 95 percent effective. Depending on the person, there are some side effects like blood clotting, vaginal discharge, nausea, irritability, and depression. (Hyde and Delamater, …show more content…
A women should not be the only responsible partner for using protection. A man can use a condom that has about a two percent failure rate. A condom is a thin latex cover that fits over the male’s penis. A condom has to be put on correctly to be effective. The effective way to put on a condom is by pinching the tip to make sure to keep air out and then rolling it onto the erected penis. The condom catches the male’s sperm and prevents it from fertilizing the woman's egg. The only side effect of a condom is either if the male or female is allergic to latex. A condom may also protect a man and a woman from sexually transmitted diseases that can be passed from having sexual intercourse (Hyde and Delamater,