Birth Control Project

Throughout this group project I have learned a lot about birth control that I did not know before. Being a woman in our society that has access to reproductive health information from my doctor, I never thought of birth control as hard to obtain or learn about. After researching about the different types of birth control and their histories I was able to learn that access to birth control has not always been easy. There are many types of birth controls that people do not know about or just do not consider to be “birth control.” Researching about these types of birth control allows me to have more knowledge on something that all women and men should know. The Planned Parenthood website is the perfect place to learn more information, it gives …show more content…
Something I did not know was about the hundreds of years that birth control has been around and apart of our society. Birth control was not always something that people had access to as human beings it was also not accepted by many. Yes, methods were made up to prevent pregnancy and some of those methods and stories are funny and interesting to read but they are not as crazy as some would think because those methods are where many of our current day products come from. Ancient civilizations had ideas about preventing pregnancy because it is a real thing that people want to …show more content…
Now we look back at these methods and think they are crazy but they actually have had affects on our birth control methods today. I think that some of the methods are somewhat logical but the science at the time was not as advanced as it is today. Beliefs people had back in the day also played a huge role in what kinds of birth control types were accepted and used by society, not all religions allowed the use of any types of birth controls. It is crazy to think that today religion still affects something that has to do with a women’s health and body. Many religions do not accept any type of contraceptives and believe that preventing the existence of new human beings is a sin. I read this over and over when researching the history of birth control and did not know that things are still pretty bad regarding religion and birth control. I personally believe that birth control cannot be something that women have to worry about being allowed to use based off of what religion they are. Birth control needs to be accessible to all women and men not matter what religion, race, or