Birth Control Affecting Women's Health

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Birth Control A big issue in todays world is the amount of birth control being used. People are believing that birth control is affecting women's health. When really it is helping the reproductive system and not harming any other parts of the human body. Birth control is used to control fertilization in a woman's body to prevent pregnancy by taking a pill everyday of the month. When on the pill a woman still has have a regular period each month. When women are taking birth control to prevent pregnancy, this has an effect on the number of abortions perseguers. In an article by Williams Salentan, he talks about how the number of abortions go down with the usage of birth control in women. The pill is doing what it’s suppose to do for

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