It has been a battle since the dawn of man, or woman. Who is greater, and who deserves what. While many strides have been made in modern history to help strengthen women’s rights, there are still a lot of places we are coming up short. Stemming from the early 1900’s, the debate of birth control has been center stage. Is it legal? Should insurance companies cover portions of it for lesser copays? Should government stay out of it? When in the same realm men can receive a prescription such as Viagra without debate or questions from outside parties. The year was 1916 when a young lady by the name of Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic for women (Planned Parenthood). There she would distribute free contraceptives to women in her
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Also, half of young women state they don’t use a contraceptive all together due to cost. Through private insurance contraceptive copays are at a fifty percent rating were non-contraceptive drugs sit at a low thirty-three percent. Without insurance, the average woman can pay $1200 a year or more, with insurance it the cost isn’t much less, averaging about $600 a year. These costs can go up depending on the type of birth control that is used. With places like Planned Parenthood and other clinics that provide low-cost birth control and exams for women under attack, women fear that they will have to pay even more in oncoming years. So why is birth control such a topic of conversation when prescriptions such as Viagra and Cialis, that help men suffering from Erectile Dysfunction are not? As the old saying goes “it’s a man’s world, women just live in it”. Viagra was first approved by the FDA in March 1998, since then it has been used by over 35 million men worldwide. This drug has never been scrutinized, nor made illegal for men to obtain. What this tells women is it’s okay for men to have sex, but its frowned upon for women to do the same while trying to prevent unwanted …show more content…
Many have purposed bills that would require men to get their wife’s consent before obtaining a Viagra prescription. They’ve done this to show the ideocracy in the laws that have come in the name of birth control methods. In 2016 Mary- Lou Marzain, a Democratic Representative from Kentucky purposed a bill that would require a man to be married and "make a sworn statement with his hand on a Bible that he will only use a prescription for a drug for erectile dysfunction when having sexual relations with his current spouse." Representative Marzain stated "My point is to illustrate how intrusive and ridiculous it is for elected officials to be inserting themselves into private and personal medical decisions.” The birth control debate has been ongoing for 100 years. Women have continued to fight for their right’s. The recently famous “Womens March of 2017” where women in many different countries gathered to protest the rights of women. Their main focus was on President Trumps threats to defund Planned Parenthood. As a united front we can only hope that this debate will not go on for another 100 years, and that generations to come will not have to face the same struggles that women today do. That the playing field is both equal in the reproductive rights for women and
Also, half of young women state they don’t use a contraceptive all together due to cost. Through private insurance contraceptive copays are at a fifty percent rating were non-contraceptive drugs sit at a low thirty-three percent. Without insurance, the average woman can pay $1200 a year or more, with insurance it the cost isn’t much less, averaging about $600 a year. These costs can go up depending on the type of birth control that is used. With places like Planned Parenthood and other clinics that provide low-cost birth control and exams for women under attack, women fear that they will have to pay even more in oncoming years. So why is birth control such a topic of conversation when prescriptions such as Viagra and Cialis, that help men suffering from Erectile Dysfunction are not? As the old saying goes “it’s a man’s world, women just live in it”. Viagra was first approved by the FDA in March 1998, since then it has been used by over 35 million men worldwide. This drug has never been scrutinized, nor made illegal for men to obtain. What this tells women is it’s okay for men to have sex, but its frowned upon for women to do the same while trying to prevent unwanted …show more content…
Many have purposed bills that would require men to get their wife’s consent before obtaining a Viagra prescription. They’ve done this to show the ideocracy in the laws that have come in the name of birth control methods. In 2016 Mary- Lou Marzain, a Democratic Representative from Kentucky purposed a bill that would require a man to be married and "make a sworn statement with his hand on a Bible that he will only use a prescription for a drug for erectile dysfunction when having sexual relations with his current spouse." Representative Marzain stated "My point is to illustrate how intrusive and ridiculous it is for elected officials to be inserting themselves into private and personal medical decisions.” The birth control debate has been ongoing for 100 years. Women have continued to fight for their right’s. The recently famous “Womens March of 2017” where women in many different countries gathered to protest the rights of women. Their main focus was on President Trumps threats to defund Planned Parenthood. As a united front we can only hope that this debate will not go on for another 100 years, and that generations to come will not have to face the same struggles that women today do. That the playing field is both equal in the reproductive rights for women and