Throughout history, women have been constantly held back from progressing in many of the same things men have gained so easily. Men have always been able to choose the life they want and have been accepted with anything they do. Up until about 40 years ago, women were expected to be a stay-at-home-mom and perfect homemaker, while their husbands where the true base of their relationship providing financial stability necessary for living comfortably. In the 1960’s, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of contraceptives like birth control pills for married women. An advantage of this from Nancy Cohen would be that “the Pill was both reliable and controlled by a woman herself, requiring neither the consent nor the knowledge
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The pills have had a positive effect on the mental state of women, by allowing them to decide when they want to use sexual intercourse for pleasure and when they want to use it for conception. They are able to support themselves and wait until they are ready emotionally and financially to have a child, whereas before the main goal was to find a husband to support them when they were still coming out of their teen years and going into their twenties. Without the Pill, unwanted pregnancies would be extremely more common and children could be born into toxic environments. The right to choose to use birth control is extremely controversial among different religions, races, and cultures. But when women are not given any type of birth control and are forced to carry a baby they are not prepared for, many of the children can end up as orphans or being mistreated by the family they were born into. Even though birth control became legal in the 1960s, only married women were allowed to use it until sometime in the 1980s. Right when birth control was originally legalized, Guldi (2008) found that the cost of pregnancy prevention decreased at an incredible rate (p. 825). Abortion rates went down because women were not getting pregnant unwillingly or Women were now focusing more on bettering themselves before settling down to have children, and many did not believe that being a mother and wife was the primary …show more content…
Some women use birth control to help regulate menstrual cycles and tame pains that they are usually given throughout it. Some advantages other than pregnancy prevention stated by Alisha Rosenfeld (2003) are that:
It is convenient to use, women become more regular with their periods, and have less menstrual flow. They also receive less menstrual cramping, are less likely to have iron deficiency anemia…, less pelvic inflammatory disease, less acne, less premenstrual tension, and less rheumatoid arthritis (p. 5).
Women are able to reduce the things that make their periods dreadful with birth control. By eliminating the many nuisances menstruation usually gives women, they are now less altered when their periods do come. Women are now able to continue with daily life and go about their normal routine without as many issues and obstacles coming from their menstrual
The pills have had a positive effect on the mental state of women, by allowing them to decide when they want to use sexual intercourse for pleasure and when they want to use it for conception. They are able to support themselves and wait until they are ready emotionally and financially to have a child, whereas before the main goal was to find a husband to support them when they were still coming out of their teen years and going into their twenties. Without the Pill, unwanted pregnancies would be extremely more common and children could be born into toxic environments. The right to choose to use birth control is extremely controversial among different religions, races, and cultures. But when women are not given any type of birth control and are forced to carry a baby they are not prepared for, many of the children can end up as orphans or being mistreated by the family they were born into. Even though birth control became legal in the 1960s, only married women were allowed to use it until sometime in the 1980s. Right when birth control was originally legalized, Guldi (2008) found that the cost of pregnancy prevention decreased at an incredible rate (p. 825). Abortion rates went down because women were not getting pregnant unwillingly or Women were now focusing more on bettering themselves before settling down to have children, and many did not believe that being a mother and wife was the primary …show more content…
Some women use birth control to help regulate menstrual cycles and tame pains that they are usually given throughout it. Some advantages other than pregnancy prevention stated by Alisha Rosenfeld (2003) are that:
It is convenient to use, women become more regular with their periods, and have less menstrual flow. They also receive less menstrual cramping, are less likely to have iron deficiency anemia…, less pelvic inflammatory disease, less acne, less premenstrual tension, and less rheumatoid arthritis (p. 5).
Women are able to reduce the things that make their periods dreadful with birth control. By eliminating the many nuisances menstruation usually gives women, they are now less altered when their periods do come. Women are now able to continue with daily life and go about their normal routine without as many issues and obstacles coming from their menstrual